Results of European Parliament elections on 4-7 June 2009

Elections to the European Parliament
South-East England 4 June 2009

Results

South-East England
10 seats, 6.1m voters, turnout 37.4% (2004 36.5% )

Party	MEPs	Share of vote	Change since 1999
Conservative UKIP Liberal Democrat Green Labour	4 2 2 1 1	34.8% 18.8% 14.1% 11.6% 8.2%	-0.4 % -0.7% -1.2% +3.8% -5.4%

The South-East is the largest of the UK's Euro constituencies, and has 10 seats allocated, more than for three of the central European countries. The electoral region covers 83 parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Hampshire, Sussex, and Kent. A complex proportional representation electoral system has been used in the EP elections. The South-East did not slavishly follow overall UK trends. There was a slight rise in the turnout. The key feature was the growth of support for the Green Party, mainly at the expense of Labour, though all other leading parties lost some support. 8 of the 10 elected were already sitting MEPs, with UKIP’s Marta Andreassen and Liberal Democrat Catherine Bearder the two new members of the European Parliament. Elected MEPs
Marta Andreassen Richard Ashworth Catherine Bearder Sharon Bowles Nirj Deva James Elles Nigel Farage Daniel Hannan Caroline Lucas Peter Skinner		UKIP Conservative Liberal Democrat Liberal Democrat Conservative Conservative UKIP Conservative Green Labour
The links above are usually for personal websites - see the link below for the European Parliament MEP pages. European Parliament index of South-East MEPs
Results in Sussex some results broken down by district counting centres the County towns - Chichester and Lewes Adur and Arun Brighton and Hove Eastbourne and Mid Sussex Wealden and Hastings