North West England (European Parliament constituency)

North West England
North West England
European Parliament constituency
	Location among the 2014 constituencies
	Shown within the United Kingdom
Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1999
Dissolved	31 January 2020
MEPs	10 (1999–2004); 9 (2004–2009); 8 (2009–2020)
Sources
	[1][2]

North West England was a constituency of the European Parliament. From the 2009 elections it elected 8 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation, until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.

Boundaries

The constituency corresponded to the North West England region of the United Kingdom, comprising the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.

History

Following the passing of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, the North West of England formed one constituency from which candidates are elected using the D'Hondt method. In the election preceding that Act, MEPs were elected by the first-past-the-post method in single-member constituencies. The constituency corresponded to the following former European constituencies: Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Wirral, Cumbria and Lancashire North, Greater Manchester Central, Greater Manchester East, Greater Manchester West, Lancashire Central, Lancashire South, Merseyside East and Wigan, Merseyside West, and Congleton from Staffordshire West and Congleton.

Returned members

MEPs for North West England, 1999—2020
Election		1999 (5th parliament)		2004 (6th parliament)				2009 (7th parliament)		2014 (8th parliament)				2019 (9th parliament)
MEP Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Lord Inglewood Conservative	width=1px style="background-color: Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" \|	John Whittaker UKIP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" \|	Paul Nuttall UKIP (2009–2018) Independent (2018–2019), Brexit Party (2019)					style="background-color: Template:Brexit Party/meta/color" \|	Claire Fox Brexit Party	style="background-color: Template:Brexit Party/meta/color" \|
MEP Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Den Dover Conservative (1999–2008) Independent (2008–2009)^[1]					style="background-color: Template:British National Party/meta/color" \|	Nick Griffin BNP	style="background-color: Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" \|	Louise Bours UKIP (2014–2018) Independent (2018–2019)			style="background-color: Template:Brexit Party/meta/color" \|	Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen Brexit Party	style="background-color: Template:Brexit Party/meta/color" \|
MEP Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Sir Robert Atkins Conservative							width=1px style="background-color: Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" \|	Steven Woolfe UKIP (2014–2016) Independent (2016–2019)^[2]			style="background-color: Template:Brexit Party/meta/color" \|	David Bull Brexit Party	style="background-color: Template:Brexit Party/meta/color" \|
MEP Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	David Sumberg Conservative					width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Jacqueline Foster Conservative					style="background-color:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" \|	Gina Dowding [[Green Party of England and Wales\|Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/shortname]]	style="background-color: Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" \|
MEP Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Jacqueline Foster Conservative	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" \|	Saj Karim LD (2004–2007) Con (2007–2019)^[3]			style="background-color:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Saj Karim Conservative					style="background-color:Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" \|	Jane Brophy [[Liberal Democrats (UK)\|Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/shortname]]	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" \|
MEP Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" \|	Chris Davies Liberal Democrat							width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	M. Afzal Khan Labour (2014–2017)	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Wajid Khan Labour (2017–2019)	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" \|	Chris Davies [[Liberal Democrats (UK)\|Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/shortname]]	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" \|
MEP Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Terry Wynn^[4] Labour			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Brian Simpson^[5] Labour (2006–2014)			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Julie Ward 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" \|	Arlene McCarthy Labour							width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Theresa Griffin 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" \|	Gary Titley Labour					Seat abolished
MEP Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Brian Simpson^[5] Labour	Seat abolished

Key to political groups of the European Parliament (UK)^[6] v t e
Party				Faction in European Parliament
	Brexit Party	29			Non-Inscrits	57
	DUP	1			Non-Inscrits	57
	Liberal Democrats	16	17		Renew Europe	108
	Alliance	1	17		Renew Europe	108
	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 listed in bold. Brackets indicate the order candidates were elected and the number of votes per seat won in their respective columns.

2019

European Election 2019: North West England^[7]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Brexit Party	Claire Fox (1) Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen (4) David Bull (7) Gary Harvey, Ajay Jagota, Elizabeth Babade, Sally Bate, John Banks	541,843 (180,614)	31.23	New
	Labour	Theresa Griffin (2) Julie Ward (6) Wajid Khan, Erica Lewis, David Brennan, Claire Cozler, Saf Ismail, Yvonne Tennant	380,193 (190,096)	21.91	–11.94
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Davies (3) Jane Brophy (8) Helen Foster-Grime, Anna Fryer, Sam Al-Hamdani, Rebecca Forrest, John Studholme, Frederick Van Mierlo	297,507 (148,753)	17.15	+11.14
	Green	Gina Dowding (5) Wendy Kay Olsen, Jessica Northey, Geraldine Coggins, Rosie Mills, Astrid Johnson, Daniel Jerrome, James Booth	216,581	12.48	+5.47
	Conservative	Sajjad Karim, Kevin Beaty, Jane Howard, Arnold Saunders, Wendy Maisey, Thomas Lord, Anthony Pickles, Attika Choudhary	131,002	7.55	–12.51
	UKIP	Adam Richardson, Jeff Armstrong, Fiona Mills, Nathan Ryding, Michael Felse, Ben Fryer, John Booker, Alexander Craig	62,464	3.60	–23.86
	Change UK	Andrea Cooper, Dan Price, Arun Banerji, Michael Taylor, Philippa Olive, Victoria Desmond, Andrew Graystone, Elisabeth Knight	47,237	2.72	New
	Independent	Tommy Robinson	38,908	2.24	New
	English Democrat	Stephen Morris, Valerie Morris	10,045	0.58	–0.53
	UKEU	Sophie Larroque	7,125	0.41	New
	Independent	Mohammad Aslam	2,002	0.12	New
Turnout			1,744,858	33.11	–0.39

2014

European Election 2014: North West England (results)^[8]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Labour	Theresa Griffin, Afzal Khan, Julie Ward, Wajid Khan, Angeliki Stogia, Steve Carter, Pascale Lamb, Nick Parnell ^[9]	594,063 (198,021)	33.9	+13.5
	UKIP	Paul Nuttall, Louise Bours, Steven Woolfe, Shneur Odze, Lee Slaughter, Simon Noble, Peter Harper, John Brian Stanyer	481,932 (160,644)	27.5	+11.7
	Conservative	Jacqueline Foster, Sajjad Karim, Kevin Beaty, Deborah Dunleavy, Joe Barker, Daniel Hamilton, Chris Whiteside, James Walsh	351,985 (175,993)	20.1	−5.5
	Green	Peter Cranie, Gina Dowding, Laura Bannister, Jill Perry, John Knight, Ulrike Zeshan, Lewis Coyne, Jake Welsh	123,075	7.0	−0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Davies, Helen Foster-Grime, Jo Crotty, Qassim Afzal, Jane Brophy, Sue McGuire, Gordon Lishman, Neil Christian	105,487	6.0	−8.3
	BNP	Nick Griffin, Dawn Charlton, Clive Jefferson, Eddy O'Sullivan, Simon Darby, Kay Pollitt, Derek Adams, David O'Loughlin	32,826	1.9	−6.1
	An Independence from Europe	Helen Bashford, Gill Kearney, Pauline Penny, Kay Bashford, Faye Raw, Lorna Markovitch, Jennie Ransome, Jill Stockdale	26,731	1.5	New
	English Democrat	Stephen Morris, Paul Rimmer, Derek Bullock, Paul Whitelegg, Steve McEllenborough, Laurence Depares, Valarie Morris, Anthony Backhouse	19,522	1.1	−1.3
	Pirate	Maria Aretoulaki, George Walkden, Jack Allnutt	8,597	0.5	New
	NO2EU	Roger Bannister, George Waterhouse, Jacqueline Grunsell, John Metcalfe, George Tapp, Mark Rowe, James Healy, Kevin Morrison	5,402	0.3	−1.1
	Socialist Equality	Chris Marsden, Julie Hyland, Robert Skelton, Lucy Warren, Mark Dowson, Ajitha Gunaratne, Danny Dickinson, Joe Heffer	5,067	0.3	New
Turnout			1,754,687	33.5	+1.8

2009

European Election 2009: North West England^[10]^[11]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Conservative	Sir Robert Atkins, Saj Karim, Jacqueline Foster Alex Williams, Greg Morgan, Tony Samuels, Peter Wilding, Andrew Large^[12]	423,174 (141,058)	25.6	+1.4
	Labour	Arlene McCarthy, Brian Simpson Theresa Griffin, Stephen Carter, Jane Clarke, Riaz Ahmed, Claire Reynolds, Brian Boag	336,831 (168,415.5)	20.4	−7.0
	UKIP	Paul Nuttall Michael McManus, Graham Cannon, Nigel Brown, Hilary Jones, Philip Griffiths, Fred McGlade, Terry Durrance	261,740	15.8	+4.1
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Davies Helen Foster-Grime, Sue McGuire, Qassim Afzal, Neil Corlett, Mark Clayton, Stephen Cooke, Peter Hirst	235,639	14.3	−1.6
	BNP	Nick Griffin Martin Wingfield, Steve Greenhalgh, Edward O'Sullivan, Jean Purdy, Michael Elliot, Derek Adams, Gary Aronsson	132,194	8.0	+1.6
	Green	Peter Cranie, Maria Whitelegg, Ruth Bergan, Samir Chatterjee, Jill Perry, Justine Hall, Margaret Westbrook, Geoff Smith	127,133	7.7	+2.1
	English Democrat	Ed Abrams, Stephen Morris, Robert Logan, Derek Grue, Anthony Justice, Maurice Brookes, Valerie Morris, Ken Walters	40,027	2.4	+0.8
	Socialist Labour	Billy Kelly, Stephen Whatham, Kai Andersen, Ronald Waugh, Dot Kelly, Lynton Bennett, Dot Entwistle, Michael Perry	26,224	1.6	New
	Christian	Hans-Christian Raabe, Jill McLachlan, John Manwell, Maria Overend, Clive Morrison, Bob Ralph, Carol Jules, David Lee Martin	25,999	1.6	New
	NO2EU	Roger Bannister, Les Skarrot, Craig Johnston, Alec McFadden, Steve Radford, Lynn Worthington, John Metcalfe, Harry Smith	23,580	1.4	New
	Jury Team (UK)	Krishnamurty Tayya, Graham Ross, Carl Birchall, William Brotherston, Mary Strickland, Michael Hale	8,783	0.5	New
	Libertas	Benjamin Caraduc Tallis, Anthony Butcher, Paul Dabrowa, William Westall, Liam Hemmings, John Humberstone, Michael O'Reilly	6,980	0.4	New
	Independent	Francis Apaloo	3,621	0.2	New
Turnout			1,651,825	31.7	−9.2

2004

European Election 2004: North West England^[13]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Labour	Gary Titley, Arlene McCarthy, Terry Wynn Brian Simpson, Theresa Griffin, Rosie Cooper, Albert Catterall, Rupa Huq, Ebrahim Adia	576,388 (192,129.33)	27.4	−7.1
	Conservative	Den Dover, David Sumberg, Sir Robert Atkins Jacqueline Foster, David Newns, Alfred Doran, Eveleigh Dutton, Leslie Byrom, James Mawdsley	509,446 (169,815.33)	24.2	−11.2
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Davies, Saj Karim Helen Flo Clucas, Qassim Afzal, Stan Collins, Allison Seabourne, Paula Keaveney, Neil Corlett, Alison Firth	335,063 (167,531.5)	15.9	+4.2
	UKIP	John Whittaker Gregg Beaman, John Browne, Gerald Kelley, Alan Weddell, Stephen Roxborough, Richard Buttrey, Graham Cannon, Roy Hopwood	257,158	11.7	+5.1
	BNP	Nick Griffin, Martin Wingfield, Anthony Jones, Patricia Thomson, David Joines, Ralph Ellis, Richard Chadfield, Anita Corbett, Barry Birks^[14]	134,959	6.4	+5.1
	Green	John Whitelegg, Gina Dowding, Spencer Fitz-Gibbon, Kay Roney, Peter Cranie, Vernon Marshall, Vanessa Hall, Kenneth McIver, James Craig	117,393	5.6	0.0
	Liberal	Steve Radford, David Green, Hazel Williams, Philip Burke, Christopher Lenton, Christopher Barnes, Michael Butler, Robin Radnell, Daniel Wood	96,325	4.6	+2.4
	English Democrat	Christine Constable, Mark Wheatley, Julia Howman, Stephen Pipe, Lauren Spratt, Phillip Evans, Robert Abrams	34,110	1.6	New
	Respect	Michael Lavalette, Ahmed Hadi, Sabiha Vorajee, Alexander McFadden, Stephen Metcalfe, Madeline Heneghan, Richard Searle, Edna Greenwood, Susan Mary Bond	24,636	1.2	New
	Countryside	Rodney Black, Richard Malbon, Richard Ormrod, Kevin Tomkinson	11,283	0.5	New
	ProLife Alliance	Fiona Pinto, Julia Millington, Kathleen Delarmi, Rosanne Allen, Fiona Daly	10,084	0.5	New
	Independent	Ronald Alan Neal	8,318	0.4	New
Turnout			2,115,163	40.9	+21.2

1999

European Election 1999: North West England^[15]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Conservative	Lord Inglewood, Sir Robert Atkins, David Sumberg, Den Dover, Jacqueline Foster David Newns, Andrew Reid, Leslie Byrom, Christopher Lynch, Paul Brierley	360,027 (72,005.4)	35.4
	Labour	Arlene McCarthy, Gary Titley, Terry Wynn, Brian Simpson Tony Cunningham, Mark Hendrick, Ruth Turner, Claire Nangle, Michael Ward, Theresa Griffin	350,511 (87,627.75)	34.5
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Davies Flo Clucas, Tim Farron, Patsy Calton, Roger Putnam, Yasmin Zalzala, Kiron Reid, Kate Fletcher, Mark Clayton, Jackie Pearcey	119,376	11.7
	UKIP	John Whittaker, Gerald Kelley, Roger Bullock, Gordon Black, Mona McNee, Mark Adams, Valerie Cowell, Graham Cannon, Alan Weddell, John Tomlin	66,779	6.6
	Green	John Whitelegg, Spencer Fitz-Gibbon, Chris Busby, Robin Field, Lance Crookes, Gina Dowding, Julian Parry, Geoffrey Nicholls, Jenny Jones, Joy Hogg	56,828	5.6
	Liberal	Michael Meadowcroft, Steve Radford, David Green, Philip Burke, Gary Copeland, Colin Paisley, Hazel Williams, Susan Ashton, Alison Micklem, Paul Woodruff	22,640	2.2
	BNP	Christian Jackson, Roger Wood, David Blezard, Michael Cope, Mark Dodd, Lee Barnes, Anthony Hodson, William Hitches, Brian Winn, Geoffrey Barnes	13,587	1.3
	Socialist Labour	William Kelly, Gias Choudhury, Alec McFadden, Lynne Lowe, Ali Mehmood, James Hackett, Steven Wynn, Jim Dooher, Michael Perry, Terence Cullen	11,338	1.1
	Pro-Euro Conservative	Andrew Pearce, Janet Terras, Paul Bennetts, Andrew Zsigmund, Edward Pearce, Jane Baines, Tim Coppinger, Graham Perkins, Linda Callaghan, Barry Hardcastle	9,816	1.0
	Anti-Corruption Pro-Family Christian Alliance	David Braid	2,251	0.2
	Natural Law	John Collins, Dinah Grice, Peter Leadbetter, Deborah Wright, William Hite, Bryan Irving, Bibette Leadbetter, Simon Cohen, Geoffrey Gay, Anne Marie Scott	2,114	0.2
	English Independent Humanist Party	Douglas Firkin-Flood	1,049	0.1
	Weekly Worker	John Pearson, Roger Harper, Philip Watson, Stephen Riley, Edward Rowlands, Thomas May, Daniel Hammill, Daniel Bowles	878	0.1
Turnout			1,017,194	19.7

External links

European Election 2009 – Results Breakdown for the North West (by district)
"Your MEPs: North West". European Parliament Information Office in the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Includes photos, contact information, links to EU website profiles

References

^ Expelled from Conservatives on 13 November 2008
^ Left UKIP on 17 October 2016
^ Defected to the Conservatives on 26 November 2007
^ Resigned on 27 August 2006
^ ^a ^b Appointed in 2006 to replace Terry Wynn
^ "Results by national party: 2019-2024 United Kingdom - Final results". European Parliament. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
^ "Candidate Information". North West Votes. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
^ Bernstein, Sir Howard (24 April 2014). "Statement of Persons Nominated". North West Votes. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
^ Labour Party
^ "UK – European election candidates: North West". BBC News. 2 June 2009.
^ "European Election 2009 – UK Results – North West". BBC News. 8 June 2009.
^ Conservative Party^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "2004 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009.
^ "Our European Election List for the North West Euro-Constituency". British National Party. 3 June 2004. Archived from the original on 3 June 2004.
^ "1999 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. Archived from the original on 28 August 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009.

[1] Expelled from Conservatives on 13 November 2008

[2] Left UKIP on 17 October 2016

[3] Defected to the Conservatives on 26 November 2007

[4] Resigned on 27 August 2006

[auto-5] Appointed in 2006 to replace Terry Wynn

[6] "Results by national party: 2019-2024 United Kingdom - Final results". European Parliament. Retrieved 28 May 2019.

[7] "Candidate Information". North West Votes. Retrieved 12 May 2019.

[8] Bernstein, Sir Howard (24 April 2014). "Statement of Persons Nominated". North West Votes. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014.

[9] Labour Party

[10] "UK – European election candidates: North West". BBC News. 2 June 2009.

[11] "European Election 2009 – UK Results – North West". BBC News. 8 June 2009.

[12] Conservative Party^{[permanent dead link]}

[13] "2004 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009.

[14] "Our European Election List for the North West Euro-Constituency". British National Party. 3 June 2004. Archived from the original on 3 June 2004.

[15] "1999 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. Archived from the original on 28 August 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009.

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v t e Constituencies in North West England (73)
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Conservative (3)	Chester South and Eddisbury Fylde Tatton
Liberal Democrats (3)	Cheadle Hazel Grove Westmorland and Lonsdale
Independent (4)	Blackburn Liverpool West Derby Runcorn and Helsby Salford
Speaker (1)	Chorley

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