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North East England (European Parliament constituency)

North East England was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 3 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation, until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.

North East England
European Parliament constituency
Map of the 2014 European Parliament constituencies with North East England highlighted in red
Location among the 2014 constituencies
Shown within England
Member stateUnited Kingdom
Created1999
Dissolved31 January 2020
MEPs4 (1999–2004)
3 (2004–2020)
Sources
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Boundaries

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The constituency corresponded to the North East England region of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and parts of North Yorkshire.

History

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The constituency was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Durham, Northumbria, Tyne and Wear, and parts of Cleveland and Richmond.

MEPs for former North East England 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) 		Peter Vanneck
Conservative 		David Bowe
Labour
Durham Roland Boyes
Labour 		Stephen Hughes
Labour
Northumbria Gordon Adam
Labour
Tyne South and Wear (1979 – 1984)
Tyne and Wear (1984 – 1999) 		Joyce Quin
Labour 		Alan Donnelly
Labour

Returned members

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MEPs for North East England, 1999 onwards
Election 1999 (5th parliament) 2004 (6th parliament) 2009 (7th parliament) 2014 (8th parliament) 2019 (9th parliament)
MEP
Party 		Martin Callanan
Conservative 		Jonathan Arnott
UKIP (2014–18)
Independent (2018 - 2019)
Brexit Party (2019) 		Brian Monteith
Brexit Party
MEP
Party 		Alan Donnelly
Labour
until December 1999 		Gordon Adam
Labour
from December 1999 		Fiona Hall
Liberal Democrat 		Paul Brannen
Labour 		John Tennant
Brexit Party
MEP
Party 		Stephen Hughes
Labour 		Judith Kirton-Darling
Labour
MEP
Party 		Mo O'Toole
Labour 		Seat abolished
Key to political groups of the European Parliament (UK)[3]
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

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

2019

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2019 results
European Election 2019: North East England[4][5]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
Brexit Party Brian Monteith, John Tennant
Richard Monaghan 		240,056
(120,028) 		38.73 +38.73
Labour Jude Kirton-Darling
Paul Brannen, Clare Penny-Evans 		119,931 19.35 −17.12
Liberal Democrats Fiona Hall, Julie Pörksen, Aidan King 104,330 16.83 +10.90
Green Rachel Featherstone, Jonathan Elmer, Dawn Furness 49,905 8.05 +2.86
Conservative Richard Lawrie, Chris Galley, Duncan Crute 42,395 6.84 −10.86
UKIP Richard Elvin, Christopher Gallacher, Alan Breeze 38,269 6.17 −23.02
Change UK Frances Weetman, Penny Hawley, Kathryn Heywood 24,968 4.03 +4.03
Turnout 619,854 32.7 +1.8

2014

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2014 results
European Election 2014: North East England
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
Labour Judith Kirton-Darling, Paul Brannen
Jayne Shotton[6][7] 		221,988
(110,994) 		36.5 +11.5
UKIP Jonathan Arnott
Richard Elvin, Phillip Broughton[7][8] 		177,660 29.2 +13.8
Conservative Martin Callanan, Ben Houchen, Andrew Lee[7][8] 107,733 17.7 −2.1
Liberal Democrats Angelika Schneider, Owen Temple, Christian Vassie[7][9] 36,093 5.9 −11.7
Green Shirley Ford, Alison Whalley, Caroline Robinson[7][10] 31,605 5.2 −0.6
An Independence from Europe Sherri Forbes, Nawal Hizan, Mary Forbes[7] 13,934 2.3 New
BNP Martin Vaughan, Lady Dorothy Brooks, Peter Foreman[7][8] 10,360 1.7 −7.2
English Democrat Kevin Riddiough, Sam Kelly, John Lewis[7][8] 9,279 1.5 −0.7
Turnout 608,652 30.9 +0.5

2009

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European Election 2009: North East England[11][12]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
Labour Stephen Hughes
Fay Tinnon, Nick Wallis[13] 		147,338 25.0 −9.1
Conservative Martin Callanan
Barbara Musgrave, Richard Bell[14] 		116,911 19.8 +1.2
Liberal Democrats Fiona Hall
Chris Foote-Wood, Neil Bradbury[15] 		103,644 17.6 −0.2
UKIP Gordon Parkin, Sandra Allison, John Tennant[16] 90,700 15.4 +3.2
BNP Adam Walker, Peter Mailer, Ken Booth[17] 52,700 8.9 +2.5
Green Shirley Ford, Iris Ryder, Nic Best[18] 34,081 5.8 +1.0
English Democrat Frank Roseman, Allan White, Graham Robinson 13,007 2.2 New
Socialist Labour Michael York, John Taylor, James Dodsworth 10,238 1.7 New
NO2EU Martin Levy, Hannah Walter, Peter Pinkney 8,066 1.4 New
Christian Don Botham, Daniel Parker, Coral Thompson 7,263 1.2 New
Libertas Ken Rollings, Alasdair Macleod, William Tremlett 3,010 0.5 New
Jury Team (UK) Ahmed Khan, Jackie Riley[19] 2,904 0.5 New
Turnout 589,862 30.4 −10.4

2004

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European Election 2004: North East England[20]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
Labour Stephen Hughes
Mo O'Toole, Joanne Thompson 		266,057 34.1 −8.1
Conservative Martin Callanan
Jeremy Middleton, Amanda Vigar 		144,969 18.6 −8.8
Liberal Democrats Fiona Hall
Chris Wood, Gregory Stone 		138,791 17.8 +4.3
UKIP Piers Merchant, Charlotte Bull, Val Cowell 94,887 12.2 +3.4
BNP Alan Patterson, Andrew Harris, Jenny Agnew[21] 50,249 6.4 +5.5
Independent Neil Herron 39,658 5.1 New
Green Pam Woolner, Nic Best, Judith Brennan 37,247 4.8 +0.1
Respect Yvonne Ridley, Yunus Bakhsh, David Stewart 8,633 1.1 New
Turnout 780,491 40.8 +21.3

1999

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European Election 1999: North East England[22]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
Labour Alan Donnelly, Stephen Hughes, Mo O'Toole
Gordon Adam 		162,573
(54,191) 		42.2
Conservative Martin Callanan
Aidan Ruff, Brendan Murphy, Neil Macgregor 		105,573 27.4
Liberal Democrats Chris Foote Wood, Fiona Hall, Peter Maughan, Jane Harvey 52,070 13.5
UKIP Rodney Atkinson, William Brown, Martin Rouse, Graeme Oswald 34,063 8.8
Green Nicolas Best, Ruth Whiteside, Bridget Speight, Michael Greveson 18,184 4.7
Socialist Labour Brian Gibson, Gordon Potts, James Fitzpatrick, Kenneth Hall 4,511 1.2
BNP Alan Gould, John Bowles, Iain Wilson, Colin Smith[23] 3,505 0.9
Pro-Euro Conservative Dominic Tilley, Marie Adams, Desmond Harney, John Meredith 2,926 0.8
Socialist (GB) John Bisset, Steven Colborn, Stephen Davison, Andrew Pitts 1,510 0.4
Natural Law Paul Kember, Richard Buswell, Richard Keyton, Christopher Adamson 826 0.2
Turnout 385,741 19.5

References

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