South West England (European Parliament constituency)

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The constituency within England.
The constituency within England.

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.

Contents

[edit] 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.

[edit] Members of the European Parliament

[edit] 1999 - 2004

[edit] Changes

Michael Holmes resigned and was replaced by Graham Booth in 2002.

[edit] 2004 - present

[edit] Election results

European Election 2004: South West England
List Elected Votes % ±%
Conservative Neil Parish
Caroline Jackson
Giles Chichester
457,371 (152,457) 31.6 −10.1
UK Independence Graham Booth
Roger Knapman
326,684 (163,342) 22.6 +12.0
Liberal Democrats Graham Watson 265,619 18.3 +1.8
Labour Glyn Ford 209,908 14.5 −3.5
Green None 103,821 7.2 −1.1
British National None 43,653 3.0 +2.1
Countryside Party None 30,824 0.1 N/A
Respect None 10,437 2.7 N/A
Turnout 1,453,625 37.8 +10.2


European Election 1999: South West England
List Elected Votes % ±%
Conservative Caroline Jackson
Giles Chichester
Alexander Macmillan
Neil Parish
434,645 (108,661.25) 41.7 N/A
Labour Glyn Ford 188,362 18.1 N/A
Liberal Democrats Graham Watson 171,498 16.5 N/A
UK Independence Michael Holmes 111,012 10.6 N/A
Green None 86,630 8.3 N/A
Liberal None 21,645 2.1 N/A
Pro-Euro Conservative None 11,134 1.1 N/A
British National None 9,752 0.9 N/A
Socialist Labour None 5,741 0.6 N/A
Natural Law None 1,968 0.2 N/A
Turnout 1,042,387 27.6 N/A
Constituencies in South West England
Conservative

Bournemouth East | Bournemouth West | Bridgwater | Christchurch | Cotswold | Devizes | East Devon | Forest of Dean | North Dorset | North Wiltshire | Poole | Salisbury | South West Devon | Tewkesbury | Tiverton and Honiton | Torridge and West Devon | Totnes | Wells | West Dorset | Westbury | Weston-super-Mare | Woodspring

Liberal Democrat

Bath | Bristol West | Cheltenham | Falmouth and Camborne | Mid Dorset and North Poole | North Cornwall | North Devon | Northavon | Somerton and Frome | South East Cornwall | St Ives | Taunton | Teignbridge | Torbay | Truro and St Austell | Yeovil

Labour

Bristol East | Bristol North West | Bristol South | Exeter | Gloucester | Kingswood | North Swindon | Plymouth Devonport | Plymouth Sutton | South Dorset | South Swindon | Stroud | Wansdyke

South West European constituency: Conservative (3) | UKIP (2) | Liberal Democrats (1) | Labour (1)


 
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