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Yorkshire and the Humber
European Parliament constituency
Map of the 2014 European Parliament constituencies with Yorkshire and the Humber highlighted in red
Location among the 2014 constituencies
Shown within England
Member stateUnited Kingdom
Created[[1999 European Parliament election in {{{memberstatelink2}}}|1999]]
MEPs7 (1999–2004)
6 (2004–present)
Sources
[1][2]

Yorkshire and the Humber is a constituency of the European Parliament. It elects six Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

Boundaries

The constituency corresponds to the Yorkshire and the Humber region of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

History

It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Humberside, Leeds, North Yorkshire, Sheffield, Yorkshire South, Yorkshire South West, Yorkshire West, and parts of Cleveland and Richmond and Lincolnshire and Humberside South.

MEPs for former Yorkshire and the Humber constituencies, 1979 – 1999
Election 1979 – 1984 1984 – 1989 1989 – 1994 1994 – 1999
Cleveland (1979 – 1984)
Cleveland and Yorkshire North (1984 – 1994)
Cleveland and Richmond (1994 – 1999)
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Peter Vanneck
Conservative
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | David Bowe
Labour
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |
Humberside width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Battersby
Conservative
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Peter Crampton
Labour
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |
Leeds width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Derek Enright
Labour
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Michael McGowan
Labour
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |
Lincolnshire (1979 – 1994)
Lincolnshire and Humberside South (1994 – 1999)
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Bill Newton Dunn
Conservative
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Veronica Hardstaff
Labour
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |
Sheffield width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Richard Caborn
Labour
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Bob Cryer
Labour
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Roger Barton
Labour
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |
Yorkshire North (1979 – 1984)
York (1984 – 1994)
North Yorkshire (1994 – 1999)
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Neil Balfour
Conservative
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Edward McMillan-Scott
Conservative
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
Yorkshire South width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Brian Key
Labour/Co-operative
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Norman West
Labour
to 1998
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Linda McAvan
Labour
from 1998
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |
Yorkshire South West width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Megahy
Labour
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |
Yorkshire West width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Barry Seal
Labour
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |

Returned members

MEPs for Yorkshire and the Humber, 1999 onwards
Election 1999 (5th parliament) 2004 (6th parliament) 2009 (7th parliament) 2014 (8th parliament)
MEP
Party
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Diana Wallis1
Liberal Democrat
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Rebecca Taylor
Liberal Democrat
width=1px style="background-color: Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" | Mike Hookem
UKIP
width=1px style="background-color: Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" |
MEP
Party
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Edward McMillan-Scott
Conservative (1999–2009)
Liberal Democrat (2010–2014)
width=1px style="background-color: Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" | Jane Collins
UKIP
width=1px style="background-color: Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" |
MEP
Party
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Goodwill
Conservative
width=1px style="background-color: Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" | Godfrey Bloom
UKIP (2004–13)
Independent (2013–2014)
width=1px style="background-color: Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" | Amjad Bashir
UKIP (2014-2015)
Conservative (2015-)
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
MEP
Party
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Timothy Kirkhope
Conservative
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |
MEP
Party
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Richard Corbett
Labour
style="background-color: Template:British National Party/meta/color" | Andrew Brons
British National (2009–12)
Independent (2012)[3]
British Democratic Party (2013–2014) [4][5]
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Richard Corbett
Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |
MEP
Party
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Linda McAvan
Labour
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |
MEP
Party
width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | David Bowe
Labour
Seat abolished

1Diana Wallis resigned in January 2012[6]

Party Faction in European Parliament
Brexit Party 29 Non-Inscrits 57
DUP 1
Liberal Democrats 16 17   Renew Europe 108
Alliance 1
Green 7 11 Greens–European Free Alliance 75
SNP 3
Plaid Cymru 1
Labour 10   Socialists and Democrats 154
Conservative 4 European Conservatives and Reformists Group 62
Sinn Féin 1   European United Left–Nordic Green Left 41
Total 73 Total 750

Election results

Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.

European Election 2014: Yorkshire and The Humber
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
UKIP Jane Collins, Amjad Bashir, Mike Hookem,
Gary Shores, Jason Smith, Anne Murgatroyd[8][9]
403,630
(134,543)
31.1 +13.7
Labour Linda McAvan, Richard Corbett,
Eleanor Tunnicliffe, Asghar Khan, Helen Mirfin-Boukouris, Darren Hughes[9]
380,189
(190,095)
29.3 +10.6
Conservative Timothy Kirkhope,
Alex Story, John Procter, Carolyn Abbott, Michael Naughton, Ryan Stephenson[9][10]
248,945 19.2 −5.3
Green Andrew Cooper, Shan Oakes, Dr Vicky Dunn, Denise Craghill, Martin Hemingway, Kevin Warnes[9][11] 102,282 7.9 −0.6
Liberal Democrats Edward McMillan-Scott, James Monaghan, Joe Otten, Chris Foote-Wood, Jacqueline Bell, Aqila Choudhry[9][12] 81,108 6.25 −6.9
An Independence from Europe Christopher Booth, Kerrie Oxenham, Malcolm Snelling, John Buchanan Martin, Paul Balderson Sootheran, Howard Roy Blake[9][13] 24,297 1.9 N/A
BNP Marlene Guest, Adam Walker, Danny Cooke, Joanne Brown, Steven Richard Harrison, Stuart Henshaw[9][14] 20,138 1.6 −8.2
Yorkshire First Stewart Arnold, Richard Carter, Richard Honnoraty[9][15] 19,017 1.5 N/A
English Democrat Chris Beverley, David Wildgoose, Ian Sutton, Colin Porter, Tom Redmood, David Allen[9][16] 13,288 1.0 −1.5
No2EU Trevor Howard, Mary Jackson, Carrie Hedderwick, Adrian O’Malley, Steven John Andrew, Iain Alaistair Dalton[9] 3,807 0.29 −1.0
Turnout 1,296,701 33.5 +1.2
European Election 2009: Yorkshire and The Humber[17][18]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
Conservative Edward McMillan-Scott, Timothy Kirkhope
Fleur Butler, Matthew Bean, Nick Burrows, Glynis Frew
299,802
(149,901)
24.5 −0.2
Labour Linda McAvan
Richard Corbett, Emma Hoddinott, David Bowe, Melanie Onn, Mahroof Hussain
230,009 18.8 −7.5
UKIP Godfrey Bloom
Jonathan Arnott, Jason Smith, Toby Horton, David Daniel, Lynette Afshar
213,750 17.4 +2.9
Liberal Democrats Diana Wallis
Stewart Arnold, Rebecca Taylor, James Monaghan, Nader Fekri, Neil Poole
161,552 13.2 −2.4
BNP Andrew Brons
Nick Cass, Chris Beverley, Marlene Guest, Paul Harris, Trevor Brown
120,139 9.8 +1.8
Green Martin Hemingway, Shan Oakes, Leslie Rowe, Lesley Hedges, Kevin Warnes, Steve Barnard, 104,456 8.5 +2.8
English Democrat Michael Cassidy, Joanne Robinson, Peter Davies, David  Wildgoose, Paul McEnhill, Geoffery Crossman 31,287 2.6 +1.0
Socialist Labour William Capstick, Linda Sheriden, Stephen Yoxall, Holly Jo Yoxall, Terence Robinson, Christopher Butler 19,380 1.6 N/A
Christian Sid Cordle, Andrew McClintock, Angela MacDonald, John O'Brien, Samantha Cauldwell, Rebecca Jones 16,742 1.4 N/A
NO2EU Keith Gibson, Celia Foote, Jackie Grunsell, Peter Marsh, Mike Davies, Juliet Marie Boddington 15,614 1.3 N/A
Jury Team (UK) Barbara Hibbert, Anthony Hooper, Ben Saxton 7,181 0.6 N/A
Libertas Antony Devoy, Edward Devoy, Stephen Clark, Diana MacLeod, Trevor Bending, Kathleen Harris 6,268 0.5 N/A
Turnout 1,226,180 32.3 −10.3
European Election 2004: Yorkshire and the Humber[19][20]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
Labour Linda McAvan, Richard Corbett
David Bowe, Patricia Sutcliffe, Chris Naylor, Jo Coles
413,213
(206,606.5)
26.3 −5.0
Conservative Timothy Kirkhope, Edward McMillan-Scott
Mohammed Riaz, Kenneth Irvine, Ian Bruce, Carolyn Abbott
387,369
(193,684.5)
24.6 −12.0
Liberal Democrats Diana Wallis
Julia Gash, Stewart Arnold, Robert Adamson, Colin Ross, Zulfiqar Ali
244,607 15.6 +1.2
UKIP Godfrey Bloom
Jonathan Arnott, John Nunn, John Walker, David Sewards, Ann Schwab
228,666 14.0 +6.9
BNP Nicholas Cass, Christopher Beverley, John Brayshaw, John Aveyard, Paul Cromie, Dianne Carr 126,538 8.0 +6.8
Green Mark Hill, Linda Duckenfield, John Phillips, Jonathan Dixon, John Norris, James Russell 90,337 5.7 0
Respect Anas Altikriti, Mobeen Azhar, Sue Wild, Janet Alder, Kath Owen, Christopher Cheetham 29,865 1.9 N/A
English Democrat Gary Cowd, Stephen Elliott, Derek Smith, Nicholas Booth 24,068 1.5 N/A
Independent Robert Ellis 14,762 0.9 N/A
Alliance for Green Socialism Mike Davies, Azar Iqbal, Juliet Boddington, Celia Foote, Jeannie Sutton, Steven Radford 13,776 0.9 N/A
Turnout 1,573,201 42.6 +23.0
European Election 1999: Yorkshire and the Humber [21][22]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
Conservative Edward McMillan-Scott, Timothy Kirkhope, Robert Goodwill
Christine Adamson, Earl of Dartmouth, David Nuttall, Raja Najabat Hussain
272,653
(90,884.33)
36.6 N/A
Labour Linda McAvan, David Bowe, Richard Corbett
Roger Barton, Barry Seal, Veronica Hardstaff, Dominic Shellard
233,024
(77,674.67)
31.3 N/A
Liberal Democrats Diana Wallis
Michael Pitts, Angela Harris, Colin Ross, Sylvia Anginotti, Robert Adamson, Madeleine Kirk
107,168 14.4 N/A
UKIP Gordon Rogers, Richard North, Peter Davies, Judith Longman, Clive Fairclough, David Barley, Paul Godfrey 52,824 7.1 N/A
Green Peg Alexander, Mark Hill, Vivienne Smith, Anthony Martin, Andy d'Agorne, Joseph Otten, Clive Lord 42,604 5.7 N/A
Leeds Left Alliance Michael Davis, Celia Foote, Joseph Kenyon, Jean Sutton, Michelle Hanley, Anthony Fee, Malcolm Christie 9,554 1.3 N/A
BNP Richard Mulhall, Adrian Marsden, Graham Cook, Christopher Ward, Paul Wilson, Ronald Smith, Jay Lee 8,911 1.2 N/A
Pro-Euro Conservative Julia Gash, Andrew Mayer, Louise Rowntree, Alexander Goodman, Paul McIlroy, Angela Pullen, Keith Bennett 8,075 1.1 N/A
Socialist Labour Linda Muir, Alan Brooke, Stephen Yoxall, Thomas Appleyard, Robert Morris, Frank Cave, Stewart Emms 7,650 1.0 N/A
Natural Law Geoffrey Mead, Stuart Withers, Mark Gaskell, Diana Leighton, Roger Perry, Barry Franklin, Robert Thurston 1,604 0.2 N/A
Turnout 744,067 19.6 N/A

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