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Yorkshire and the Humber (European Parliament constituency)

Constituency of the European Parliament, 1999–2019

Field	Value
title	Yorkshire and the Humber
locationmap2014	UK-york
coordinates
map	Yorkshire and the Humber in England.svg
mapcaption	Shown within England
created	1999
dissolved	2020
meps	7 (1999–2004)
6 (2004–2020)
memberstate	United Kingdom
memberstatelink2	the United Kingdom
sources

6 (2004–2020)

Yorkshire and the Humber was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected six 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 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	1984–1989
Cleveland (1979–1984)
Cleveland and Yorkshire North (1984–1994)
Cleveland and Richmond (1994–1999)	Conservative Party (UK)}}"	Peter Vanneck
Conservative	Labour Party (UK)}}"	David Bowe
Labour	Labour Party (UK)}}"
Humberside	Conservative Party (UK)}}"	Robert Battersby
Conservative	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Peter Crampton
Labour	Labour Party (UK)}}"
Leeds	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Derek Enright
Labour	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Michael McGowan
Labour	Labour Party (UK)}}"
Lincolnshire (1979–1994)
Lincolnshire and Humberside South (1994–1999)	Conservative Party (UK)}}"	Bill Newton Dunn
Conservative	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Veronica Hardstaff
Labour	Labour Party (UK)}}"
Sheffield	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Richard Caborn
Labour	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Bob Cryer
Labour	Labour Party (UK)}}"
Yorkshire North (1979–1984)
York (1984–1994)
North Yorkshire (1994–1999)	Conservative Party (UK)}}"	Neil Balfour
Conservative	Conservative Party (UK)}}"	Edward McMillan-Scott
Conservative	Conservative Party (UK)}}"
Yorkshire South	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Brian Key
Labour/Co-operative	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Norman West
Labour
to 1998	Labour Party (UK)}}"
Yorkshire South West	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Thomas Megahy
Labour	Labour Party (UK)}}"
Yorkshire West	Labour Party (UK)}}"	Barry Seal
Labour	Labour Party (UK)}}"

Returned members

MEPs for Yorkshire and the Humber, 1999 onwards	Election	MEP
Party	MEP
Party	MEP
Party	MEP
Party	MEP
Party	British National Party}}"		Labour Party (UK)}}"	MEP
Party	MEP
Party	Seat abolished
	1999 (5th parliament)		2004 (6th parliament)	2009 (7th parliament)	2014 (8th parliament)	2019 (9th parliament)
Liberal Democrats (UK)}}"		Diana Wallis1
Liberal Democrat	Liberal Democrats (UK)}}"		Rebecca Taylor
Liberal Democrat	UK Independence Party}}"		Mike Hookem
UKIP	Liberal Democrats (UK)}}"		Shaffaq Mohammed
Liberal Democrat	Liberal Democrats (UK)}}"
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Edward McMillan-Scott
*Conservative (1999–2009)
Liberal Democrat (2010–2014)*	UK Independence Party}}"		Jane Collins
*UKIP (2014–2019)
Brexit Party (2019)*	Brexit Party}}"		John Longworth
*Brexit Party (May–December 2019)
Independent (December 2019 to 2020),
Conservative Party (2020)*	Conservative Party (UK)}}"
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Robert Goodwill
Conservative	UK Independence Party}}"		Godfrey Bloom
UKIP (2004–2013)
Independent (2013–2014)	UK Independence Party}}"		Amjad Bashir
*UKIP (2014–2015)
Conservative (2015–2019)*	Brexit Party}}"		Jake Pugh
Brexit Party	Brexit Party}}"
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Timothy Kirkhope2
Conservative	Conservative Party (UK)}}"		John Procter
Conservative	Brexit Party}}"		Lucy Harris
*Brexit Party (May–December 2019)
Independent (December 2019 to 2020),
Conservative Party (2020)*	Conservative Party (UK)}}"
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Richard Corbett
Labour	Andrew Brons
*British National Party (2009–2012)
Independent (2012)
British Democratic Party (2013–2014)*	Labour Party (UK)}}"		Richard Corbett
Labour
Labour Party (UK)}}"		Linda McAvan
Labour	Green Party of England and Wales}}"		Magid Magid
Green	Green Party of England and Wales}}"
Labour Party (UK)}}"		David Bowe
Labour

1Diana Wallis resigned in January 2012.

2Timothy Kirkhope was appointed to the House of Lords in 2016 and as a result was required to resign.

Election results

Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the order in which candidates were elected, and the number of votes per seat won in their respective columns.

2019

2019 results

Lucy Harris (2) Jake Pugh (6) James Heartfield, Andrew Allison, Christopher Barker (156,783.67) Eloise Todd, Jawad Mohammed Khan, Jayne Allport, Martin Mayer, Alison Hume Rosina Robson, James Blanchard, Sophie Thornton, James Baker, Ruth Coleman-Taylor Alison Teal, Andrew Cooper, Louise Houghton, Lars Kramm, Ann Forsaith

2014

2014 results

Amjad Bashir (4) Mike Hookem (6) Gary Shores, Jason Smith, Anne Murgatroyd (134,543) Richard Corbett (5) Eleanor Tunnicliffe, Asghar Khan, Helen Mirfin-Boukouris, Darren Hughes (190,095) Alex Story, John Procter, Carolyn Abbott, Michael Naughton, Ryan Stephenson

2009

2009 results

Timothy Kirkhope (5) Fleur Butler, Matthew Bean, Nick Burrows, Glynis Frew (149,901) Richard Corbett, Emma Hoddinott, David Bowe, Melanie Onn, Mahroof Hussain Jonathan Arnott, Jason Smith, Toby Horton, David Daniel, Lynette Afshar Stewart Arnold, Rebecca Taylor, James Monaghan, Nader Fekri, Neil Poole Nick Cass, Chris Beverley, Marlene Guest, Paul Harris, Trevor Brown

2004

2004 results

Richard Corbett (5) David Bowe, Patricia Sutcliffe, Chris Naylor, Jo Coles (206,606.5) Edward McMillan-Scott (6) Mohammed Riaz, Kenneth Irvine, Ian Bruce, Carolyn Abbott (193,684.5) Julia Gash, Stewart Arnold, Robert Adamson, Colin Ross, Zulfiqar Ali Jonathan Arnott, John Nunn, John Walker, David Sewards, Ann Schwab

1999

1999 results

Timothy Kirkhope (3) Robert Goodwill (6) Christine Adamson, Earl of Dartmouth, David Nuttall, Raja Najabat Hussain (90,884.33) David Bowe (4) Richard Corbett (7) Roger Barton, Barry Seal, Veronica Hardstaff, Dominic Shellard (77,674.67) Michael Pitts, Angela Harris, Colin Ross, Sylvia Anginotti, Robert Adamson, Madeleine Kirk

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