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South West England (European Parliament constituency)
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South West England is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 7 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
Boundaries
The constituency consists of the South West England region of the United Kingdom and with effect from the 2004 European election has also included Gibraltar.
Candidates
| European Parliament election 2009 — South West lists |
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Party |
Candidates |
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Conservative Party |
Giles Chichester MEP, Julie Girling, Ashley Fox, Mike Dolley, Don Collier, Zehra Zaidi |
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Labour Party |
Glyn Ford, Isabel Owen, Keir Dhillon, Dorothea Hodge, Dafydd Emlyn Williams, Eshter Pickup-Keller |
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Liberal Democrats |
Graham Watson, Kay Barnard, Robin Teverson, Justine McGuinness, Humphrey Temperley, Paul Massey |
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UK Independence Party |
Trevor Colman, Earl of Dartford, Gawain Towler, Jeffrey Beer, Eric Edmond, Julia Reid |
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Green Party |
Ricky Knight, Roger Creagh-Osborne, Molly-Scott Cato, Richard Lawson, Chloë Somers, David Taylor |
Sources
Members of the European Parliament
The constituency within England as it existed from 1999-2004.
1999 - 2004
Changes
Michael Holmes resigned and was replaced by Graham Booth in 2002.
2004 - present
Election results
| European election 2004: South West England |
| List |
Elected |
Votes |
% |
±% |
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Conservative |
Neil Parish
Caroline Jackson
Giles Chichester |
457,371 (152,457) |
31.6 |
−10.1 |
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UK Independence |
Graham Booth
Roger Knapman |
326,684 (163,342) |
22.6 |
+12.0 |
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Liberal Democrat |
Graham Watson |
265,619 |
18.3 |
+1.8 |
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Labour |
Glyn Ford |
209,908 |
14.5 |
−3.5 |
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Green |
None |
103,821 |
7.2 |
−1.1 |
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British National |
None |
43,653 |
3.0 |
+2.1 |
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Countryside Party |
None |
30,824 |
2.1 |
N/A |
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Respect |
None |
10,437 |
0.7 |
N/A |
| Turnout |
1,453,625 |
37.8 |
+10.2 |
| European election 1999: South West England |
| List |
Elected |
Votes |
% |
±% |
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Conservative |
Caroline Jackson
Giles Chichester
Alexander Macmillan
Neil Parish |
434,645 (108,661.25) |
41.7 |
N/A |
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Labour |
Glyn Ford |
188,362 |
18.1 |
N/A |
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Liberal Democrat |
Graham Watson |
171,498 |
16.5 |
N/A |
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UK Independence |
Michael Holmes |
111,012 |
10.6 |
N/A |
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Green |
None |
86,630 |
8.3 |
N/A |
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Liberal |
None |
21,645 |
2.1 |
N/A |
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Pro-Euro Conservative |
None |
11,134 |
1.1 |
N/A |
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British National |
None |
9,752 |
0.9 |
N/A |
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Socialist Labour |
None |
5,741 |
0.6 |
N/A |
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Natural Law |
None |
1,968 |
0.2 |
N/A |
| Turnout |
1,042,387 |
27.6 |
N/A |
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