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. In May 2010,
Caroline Lucas was elected as a Westminster MP, and was succeeded from the Green party
list by Keith Taylor.
|
Marta
Andreassen |
|
UKIP |
| Richard
Ashworth |
|
Conservative |
| Catherine Bearder |
|
Liberal Democrat |
| Sharon
Bowles |
|
Liberal Democrat |
| Nirj Deva |
|
Conservative |
| James Elles |
|
Conservative |
| Nigel
Farage |
|
UKIP |
| Daniel Hannan |
|
Conservative |
| Caroline
Lucas |
|
Green (until May 2010, when elected MP) |
| Peter
Skinner |
|
Labour |
| Keith
Taylor |
|
Green (from June 2010) |
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
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Election background
topics
See policy summaries of the 5 main parties, including
links to voting record of current MEPs
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