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The European Parliament election will be the United Kingdom's component of the European Parliament election, 2009 and will be held on Thursday 11 June 2009.
It has been predicted that the election may coincide with the next general election.[1] A total of 72, or 73, Members of the European Parliament will be elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation. England, Scotland and Wales will use the D'Hondt method of PR, whilst Northern Ireland will use Single Transferable Vote (STV). Due to the expansion of the European Union, this is fewer than were elected in 2004. The number of Members of the European Parliament elected from each region will be modified by the Boundary Commission and Electoral Commission, based on the electorate size in 2008. Similar elections will be held across the other 26 member states of the European Union from 11 - 13 June 2009.
On 31 July 2007 [2] the Electoral Commission recommended reductions in representation from Scotland, and across 5 English regions, resulting in new representation as below:
- East Midlands - 5 (from 6)
- Eastern England - 7 (no change)
- London - 8 (from 9)
- North East - 3 (no change)
- North West - 8 (from 9)
- South East - 10 (no change)
- South West - 6 (from 7)
- West Midlands - 6 (from 7)
- Yorkshire/Humber - 6 (no change)
- Wales - 4 (no change)
- Scotland - 6 (from 7)
- Northern Ireland - 3 (no change)
If the Treaty of Lisbon is ratifed by all member states prior to the 2009 elections, the UK will be entitled to a 73rd MEP. Were The Electoral Commission to perform a reallocation in keeping with the same procedures they used to allocate 72 MEPs, the extra MEP would be allocated to the West Midlands constituency[3], preserving its representation at 7 rather than reducing it to 6.
[edit] Results
[edit] England, Scotland and Wales - Overall Result
[edit] Northern Ireland
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Gordon Goes for Super Thursday", The People website 11 March 2007. URL accessed 11 March 2007
- ^ "The Electoral Commission recommends European Parliamentary seats distribution" Electoral Commission website.
- ^ Distribution between electoral regions of UK MEPs (PDF)
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