North East England (European Parliament constituency)

North East England European Parliament constituency
Location amongst the 2007 constituencies
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Created	1999
MEP(s)	4 (1999 - 2004) 3 (2004 - present)
Member State	United Kingdom
Source(s)	[1][2]

North East England is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 3 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

Boundaries

The constituency corresponds 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)
MEP Party		Martin Callanan Conservative
MEP Party		Alan Donnelly Labour until December 1999		Gordon Adam Labour from December 1999		Fiona Hall Liberal Democrat
MEP Party		Stephen Hughes Labour
MEP Party		Mo O'Toole Labour			Seat abolished

Key to European parties (UK)[3]					(v.d.e)
British party		Seats/73	EP group		Seats/754
	Conservative	26		Conservatives & Reformists	54
	Labour	13		Socialists & Democrats	189
	Liberal Democrat	12		Liberals & Democrats	85
	UKIP1	10		Freedom & Democracy	35
		1		None
	Green	2		Greens & Free Alliance	59
	Scottish National	2
	Plaid Cymru	1
	Sinn Féin	1		EUL-NGL	34
	UUP	1		Conservatives & Reformists	54
	British National	1		None
	Democratic Unionist	1
	British Democratic	1
	We Demand a Referendum	1

¹ UKIP have 11 MEPs in total, but only 10 are in the Freedom & Democracy group, with Trevor Colman as a Non-Inscrit.

Election results

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

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

European Election 2004: North East England
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	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 Democrat	Fiona Hall Chris Wood, Gregory Stone	138,791	17.8	+4.3
	UKIP	Piers Merchant, Charlotte Bull, Val Cowell	94,887	12.2	+3.3
	BNP	Alan Patterson, Andrew Harris, Jenny Agnew	50,249	6.4	+5.5
	Independent	Neil Herron	39,658	5.1	N/A
	Green	Pam Woolner, Nic Best, Judith Brennan	37,247	4.8	+0.1
	Respect	Yvonne Ridley, Yunus Bakhsh, David Stewart	8,633	1.1	N/A
Turnout			780,491	40.8	+21.3

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