North East England (European Parliament constituency)

North East England
North East England
European Parliament constituency
	Location among the 2014 constituencies
	Shown within England
Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1999
Dissolved	31 January 2020
MEPs	4 (1999–2004); 3 (2004–2020)
Sources

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.

Boundaries

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

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

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] 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 shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.

2019

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

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

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

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

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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[1] "European Parliament elections 1999 - Results and explanations : United Kingdom". European Parliament. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012.

[2] "european elections 10-13 june". European Parliament. 10 June 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2016.

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

[4] "European Parliamentary Election 2019". North Tyneside Council. Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2019.

[5] Melia, Patrick. "Election Result: European Parliamentary Election - 26 May 2019" (PDF). Sunderland City Council. Retrieved 27 May 2019.

[6] "Strong, Committed and One Nation Labour MEP Candidates". Labour Party. 2 August 2013. Archived from the original on 5 August 2013.

[sunderland-2014-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Smith, Dave (24 April 2014). "Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF). City of Sunderland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014.

[candidate-8] Smith, David (24 April 2014). "North East Electoral Region" (PDF). European Parliament.

[9] Davies, Jonathan (1 December 2012). "European selection results – complete". Liberal Democrat Voice. Archived from the original on 24 January 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2016.

[10] "Local Elections - Local Election Results - 2nd May 2013". North East England Green Party. Archived from the original on 7 August 2013.

[11] Smith, Dave (7 May 2009). Statement of Parties and Individual Candidates Nominated (PDF). Sunderland City Council (Report). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2009.

[12] "2009 election results". BBC News. 19 April 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2009.

[13] "Labour's 2009 EP candidates – Jon Worth". Jonworth.eu. 22 January 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2016.

[14] "Candidates for the 2009 European Elections announced". UK Conservative Party. 31 March 2008. Archived from the original on 11 April 2008.

[15] ttp://www.cix.co.uk/~rosenstiel/eu07/eu07lnesm.htm ^{[dead link‍]}

[16] "Results of the ballot to select MEP candidates - UK Independence Party". www.ukip.org. Archived from the original on 8 December 2008.

[17] "North East Candidates : The British National Party". bnp.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 March 2009.

[18] Richard Lawson (4 June 2009). "2009 European Elections". Greenparty.org.uk. Retrieved 31 January 2016.

[19] "Carbase". Juryteam.org. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 31 January 2016.

[20] "2004 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009.

[21] "necand". 3 June 2004. Archived from the original on 3 June 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2016.

[22] "1999 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. Archived from the original on 28 August 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009.

[23] "BNP under the skin: Colin Smith". BBC News. Retrieved 20 May 2010.

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