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South East England (European Parliament constituency)
Former European Parliament constituency
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Former European Parliament constituency
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| title | South East England |
| locationmap2014 | UK-se-eng |
| coordinates | |
| map | EnglandSouthEast.png |
| mapcaption | Shown within England |
| created | 1999 |
| dissolved | 2020 |
| meps | |
| memberstate | United Kingdom |
| memberstatelink2 | the United Kingdom |
| sources | http://www.europarl.europa.eu/election/newep/en/pptsuk.shtmhttp://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2004/ep-election/sites/en/yourvoice/uk/law.html |
South East England was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 10 Members of the European Parliament (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 South East England, in the south east of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex.
History
It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East, East Sussex and Kent South, Hampshire North and Oxford, Itchen, Test and Avon, Kent East, Kent West, South Downs West, Surrey, Sussex South and Crawley, Thames Valley, Wight and Hampshire South, and parts of Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes, Cotswolds, and London South and Surrey East.
| MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979–1999 | Election | 1979–1984 | 1984–1989 | 1989–1994 | 1994–1999 | Seat not established | Seat not established | Seat not established |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sussex East (1979–1994) | ||||||||
| East Sussex and Kent South (1994–1999) | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Jack Stewart-Clark | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |||||||
| Hampshire West (1979–1984) | ||||||||
| Hampshire Central (1984–1994) | ||||||||
| Itchen, Test and Avon (1994–1999) | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Basil de Ferranti | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Edward Kellett-Bowman | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |||||||
| Kent East | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Christopher Jackson | ||||||
| Conservative | Labour Party (UK)}}" | Mark Watts | ||||||
| Labour | Labour Party (UK)}}" | |||||||
| Kent West | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Ben Patterson | ||||||
| Conservative | Labour Party (UK)}}" | Peter Skinner | ||||||
| Labour | Labour Party (UK)}}" | |||||||
| Surrey (1979–1984, 1994–1999) | ||||||||
| Surrey West (1984–1994) | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Charles Wellesley | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Tom Spencer | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |||||||
| Sussex West (1979–1994) | ||||||||
| Sussex South and Crawley (1994–1999) | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Madron Seligman | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Brendan Donnelly | ||||||
| Conservative (1994–1999) | ||||||||
| Pro-Euro Conservative (1999) | Pro-Euro Conservative Party}}" | |||||||
| Thames Valley | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Diana Elles | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | John Stevens | ||||||
| Conservative (1989–1999) | ||||||||
| Pro-Euro Conservative (1999) | Pro-Euro Conservative Party}}" | |||||||
| Wight and Hampshire East (1979–1994) | ||||||||
| Wight and Hampshire South (1994–1999) | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Stanley Johnson | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Richard Simmonds | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Roy Perry | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |||||||
| Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire (1984–1994) | ||||||||
| Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East (1994–1999) | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | James Elles | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |||||||
| Hampshire North and Oxford | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Graham Mather | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |||||||
| South Downs West | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | James Provan | ||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
Returned members
| MEPs for South East England, 1999 onwards | Election | 1999 (5th parliament) | 2004 (6th parliament) | 2009 (7th parliament) | 2014 (8th parliament) | 2019 (9th parliament) | MEP | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | MEP | |||||||||||||||||
| Party | MEP | |||||||||||||||||
| Party | MEP | |||||||||||||||||
| Party | MEP | |||||||||||||||||
| Party | MEP | |||||||||||||||||
| Party | MEP | |||||||||||||||||
| Party | MEP | |||||||||||||||||
| Party | MEP | |||||||||||||||||
| Party | MEP | |||||||||||||||||
| Party | MEP | |||||||||||||||||
| Party | Seat abolished | |||||||||||||||||
| UK Independence Party}}" | Nigel Farage | |||||||||||||||||
| UKIP (1999–2018) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Independent (2018–2019) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brexit Party (2019–2020) | Brexit Party}}" | |||||||||||||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Roy Perry | |||||||||||||||||
| Conservative | UK Independence Party}}" | Ashley Mote | ||||||||||||||||
| UKIP (2004) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Independent (2004–2009) | UK Independence Party}}" | Marta Andreasen | ||||||||||||||||
| UKIP (2009–2013) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Conservative (2013–2014) | UK Independence Party}}" | Ray Finch | ||||||||||||||||
| UKIP (2014–2019)* | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brexit Party* (2019) | Brexit Party}}" | Robert Rowland | ||||||||||||||||
| Brexit Party | Brexit Party}}" | |||||||||||||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | James Elles | |||||||||||||||||
| Conservative | UK Independence Party}}" | Diane James | ||||||||||||||||
| UKIP (2014–2016) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Independent (2016–2019) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brexit Party (2019) | Brexit Party}}" | Alexandra Phillips | ||||||||||||||||
| Brexit Party | Brexit Party}}" | |||||||||||||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Nirj Deva | |||||||||||||||||
| Conservative | Brexit Party}}" | Belinda de Lucy | ||||||||||||||||
| Brexit Party | Brexit Party}}" | |||||||||||||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Daniel Hannan | |||||||||||||||||
| Conservative | Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |||||||||||||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | James Provan | |||||||||||||||||
| Conservative | European People's Party}}" | Richard Ashworth | ||||||||||||||||
| Conservative (2004–2017) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Independent (2017–2019) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Change UK (2019) | Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" | Judith Bunting | ||||||||||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" | |||||||||||||||||
| Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" | Chris Huhne | |||||||||||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" | Sharon Bowles | ||||||||||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | UK Independence Party}}" | Janice Atkinson | ||||||||||||||||
| UKIP (2014–2015) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Independent (2015–2019) | Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" | Antony Hook | ||||||||||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" | |||||||||||||||||
| Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" | Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne | |||||||||||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" | Catherine Bearder | ||||||||||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" | |||||||||||||||||
| Green Party of England and Wales}}" | Caroline Lucas | |||||||||||||||||
| Green | Green Party of England and Wales}}" | Keith Taylor | ||||||||||||||||
| Green | Green Party of England and Wales}}" | Alexandra Phillips | ||||||||||||||||
| Green | Green Party of England and Wales}}" | |||||||||||||||||
| Labour Party (UK)}}" | Peter Skinner | |||||||||||||||||
| Labour | Labour Party (UK)}}" | Anneliese Dodds (2014–2017) | ||||||||||||||||
| Labour | Labour Party (UK)}}" | John Howarth (2017–2020) | ||||||||||||||||
| Labour | Labour Party (UK)}}" | |||||||||||||||||
| Labour Party (UK)}}" | Mark Watts | |||||||||||||||||
| Labour |
Election results
Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the order candidates were elected and the number of votes per seat won in their respective columns.
2019
2014
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Janice Atkinson (3) Diane James (6) Ray Finch (10) Donna Edmunds, Patricia Culligan, Nigel Jones, Alan Stevens, Simon Strutt, Barry Cooper (187,860) Nirj Deva (4) Richard Ashworth (7) Marta Andreasen, Richard Robinson, Graham Knight, Julie Marson, George Jeffrey, Rory Love, Adrian Pepper (241,190) John Howarth, Emily Westley, James Swindlehurst, Farah Nazeer, James Watkins, Maggie Hughes, Chris Clark, Karen Landles, Tracey Hill Alexandra Phillips, Derek Wall, Jason Kitcat, Miriam Kennet, Beverley Golden, Jonathan Essex, Jonathan Kent, Stuart Jeffrey, Ray Cunningham Antony Hook, Dinti Batstone, Giles Goodall, Ian Bearder, Allis Moss, Steve Sollitt, Bruce Tennent, John Vincent, Alan Bullion
2009
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Richard Ashworth (3) Nirj Deva (6) James Elles (8) Thérèse Coffey, Sarah Richardson, Richard Robinson, Tony Devenish, Niina Kaariniemi, Marc Brunel-Walker (203,072) Marta Andreasen (7) Steve Harris, Phillip Van der Elst, Harry Aldridge, Victor Webb, Christopher Browne, Andrew Moncreiff, Mark Stroud, Rob Burberry, Mahzar Manzoor, Ray Finch (220,001) Catherine Bearder (10) Ben Abbots, Jim Barnard, Antony Hook, Zoe Patrick, Gary Lawson, David Grace, John Vincent, James Walsh (165,170) Keith Taylor, Derek Wall, Miriam Kennet, Jason Kitcat, Hazel Dawe, Jonathan Essex, Matthew Ledbury, Steve Dawe, Beverley Golden Janet Sully, Bob Fromont, Lisa Homan, Stephen Alambritis, Janet Keene, Munir Malik, Silke Thomson-Pottebohm, Rajinder Sandhu, Sukhi Dhaliwal
2004
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Nirj Deva(3) James Elles (6) Richard Ashworth (8) Roy Perry, Thérèse Coffey, David Logan, Ferris Cowper, Richard Robinson (194,092.5) Ashley Mote (7) David Lott, Craig Mackinlay, Timothy Cross, Petrina Holdsworth, David Abbott, Stephen Harris, Michael Wigley, Lisa Hawkins (215,555.5) Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (10) Sharon Bowles, Catherine Bearder, James Walsh, Ann Lee, John Vincent, John Ford, Charles Fraser-Fleming, James Barnard (169,171) Mark Watts, Ann Davison, Simon Burgess, Janet Sully, Mark Muller, Josephine Wood, Raj Chandarana, Gillian Roles, David Menon Mike Woodin, Miriam Kennet, Keith Taylor, Alan Francis, Xanthe Bevis, Hazel Dawe, Derek Wall, Anthony Cooper, Michael Stimson
1999
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Roy Perry (2) Daniel Hannan (5) James Elles (6) Nirj Deva (9) Bryony, Baroness Bethell, Edward Kellett-Bowman, Alison Parry, Jeremy Mayhew, Barry Tanswell, Richard Ashworth (132,386.4) Mark Watts (7) Anita Pollack, Anne Snelgrove, Parmjit Dhanda, Ann Davison, Tamara Flanagan, John Howarth, Liz Clements, Alison Chapman, Sarah McCarthy-Fry (146,073) Chris Huhne (10) Sharon Bowles, David Bellotti, Jo Hawkins, James Walsh, Barbara Hewett-Silk, Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Catherine Bearder, Christopher Berry, Dorothy Webb (114,068) Christopher Skeate, Tony Stone, Michael Phillips, Bernard Collignon, Ron Walters, Lynda Ross, Harold Green, Kim Rose, Michael Knight, Rob McWhirter Mike Woodin, Alan Francis, Pete West, Hazel Dawe, Steve Dawe, Alastair Stark, Johnny Denis, Lorraine E. Serrecchia, Laurence Littman, Julian Salmon
References
References
- Died on 24 September 1988
- Won a by election on 15 December 1988
- Joined the Pro-Euro Conservatives in March 1999
- (21 November 2016). "Former leader Diane James quits UKIP". BBC.
- [[Chris Huhne]] stood down when he was elected to the [[Eastleigh (UK Parliament constituency). Eastleigh]] seat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom. House of Commons]] in the [[2005 United Kingdom general election. 5 May 2005 UK general election]]. [[Sharon Bowles]], as second on the Liberal Democrat list, took over from that day.
- [[Caroline Lucas]] won the [[Brighton Pavilion (UK Parliament constituency). Brighton Pavilion]] seat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom. House of Commons]] in the [[2010 United Kingdom general election. 6 May 2010 UK general election]] so stood down as an MEP. She was succeeded by [[Keith Taylor (British politician). Keith Taylor]], second on the Green's 2009 party list.
- [[Anneliese Dodds]] stood down when she was elected to the [[Oxford East]] seat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom. House of Commons]] in the [[2017 United Kingdom general election. 8 June 2017 UK general election]]. [[John Howarth (British politician). John Howarth]], as second on the Labour list, took over from 30 June 2017.
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- Heath, Mark. (24 April 2014). "Statement of Persons Nominated". [[Southampton City Council]].
- "YOURvoice ...a better democracy".
- "South East Region – Statement of Parties and Individual Candidates Nominated and Notice of Poll". Government of the United Kingdom.
- "European Election 2009 – UK Results – South East". BBC.
- "2004 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament.
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- "1999 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament.
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