List of members of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom (2004–2009) explained

This is a list of members of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom in the 2004 to 2009 session, ordered by name.

See 2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom for a list ordered by constituency.

Members

This table can be sorted by constituency, party or party group: click the symbol at the top of the appropriate column.

Name	National party	EP Group	Constituency
	Traditional Unionist Voice^[1] (until 27 March 2007) Independent (until 17 December 2007) Traditional Unionist	NI	Northern Ireland
		EPP–ED	South East England
		EPP–ED	North West England
		ALDE	Scotland
		IND&DEM	London
		EPP–ED	East of England
		IND&DEM	Yorkshire and the Humber
		EPP–ED	London
Chris Huhne (until 10 May 2005) (from 12 May 2005)		ALDE	South East England
		EPP–ED	West Midlands
		EPP–ED	West Midlands
		EPP–ED	North East England
	Labour Party	PES	West Midlands
		EPP–ED	South West England
		IND&DEM	East Midlands
Graham Booth (until 30 September 2008)Trevor Colman (from 1 October 2008)		IND&DEM	South West England
	Labour Party	PES	Yorkshire and the Humber
		ALDE	North West England
		EUL–NGL	Northern Ireland
		EPP–ED	South East England
	Conservative Party	EPP–ED	North West England
		ALDE	East of England
		EPP–ED
	Plaid Cymru	G–EFA	Wales
		EPP–ED	Wales
	Labour Party	PES	London
		IND&DEM	South East England
	Labour Party	PES	South West England
	Labour Party	PES	West Midlands
		ALDE	North East England
^[2]		EPP–ED (until 19 February 2008) NI	South East England
		EPP–ED	West Midlands
		EPP–ED	East Midlands
^[3]		EPP–ED (until 7 June 2005) NI	East Midlands
	Labour Party	PES	London
	Labour Party	PES	East of England
		G–EFA	Scotland
	Labour Party	PES	North East England
		EPP–ED	South West England
Theresa Villiers (until 10 May 2005) (from 12 May 2005)		EPP–ED	London
	Liberal Democrats (until 9 January 2008) Conservative Party	ALDE (until 11 December 2007) EPP–ED	North West England
^[4]	UK Independence Party	IND&DEM (until 1 November 2004) NI	East Midlands
	Labour Party	PES	Wales
		EPP–ED	Yorkshire and the Humber
		IND&DEM (until 4 June 2008) NI	South West England
	Green Party (England and Wales)	G–EFA	London
	Green Party (England and Wales)	G–EFA	South East England
	Liberal Democrats	ALDE	London
	Liberal Democrats	ALDE	West Midlands
	Labour Party	PES	Scotland
	Labour Party	PES	Yorkshire and the Humber
	Labour Party	PES	North West England
		EPP–ED	Yorkshire and the Humber
	Labour Party	PES	London
	Labour Party	PES	Wales
^[5]	UK Independence Party (until 1 February 2005) Independent	NI (until 14 January 2007) ITS (until 13 November 2007) NI	South East England
	UK Independence Party	IND&DEM	West Midlands
	Liberal Democrats	ALDE	East Midlands
	Liberal Democrats	ALDE	South East England
		EPP–ED	Northern Ireland
		EPP–ED	South West England
		EPP–ED	Scotland
Terry Wynn (until 27 August 2006)Brian Simpson (from 28 August 2006)	Labour Party	PES	North West England
	Labour Party	PES	South East England
		G–EFA	Scotland
		EPP–ED	Scotland
	Labour Party	PES	Scotland
		EPP–ED	East of England
		EPP–ED	North West England
		EPP–ED	London
	UK Independence Party	IND&DEM	East of England
	Labour Party	PES	North West England
		EPP–ED	East of England
	Liberal Democrats	ALDE	Yorkshire and the Humber
	Liberal Democrats	ALDE	South West England
	UK Independence Party	IND&DEM	North West England
Phillip Whitehead^[6] (until 31 December 2005) (from 1 January 2006)	Labour Party	PES	East Midlands
	UK Independence Party	IND&DEM (until 7 May 2008) NI	East of England

Changes

Name	Region	Party	Date	Reason for departure
Chris Huhne	South East England	LibDem	11 May 2005	Resigned on election to the House of Commons
Theresa Villiers	London	Conservative	11 May 2005	Resigned on election to the House of Commons
Phillip Whitehead	East Midlands	Labour	31 December 2005	Deceased
Terry Wynn	North West England	Labour	27 August 2006	Resigned after reaching 60th birthday
Graham Booth	South West England	UKIP	1 October 2008	Retired

Notes and References

1. [Jim Allister]
2. Daniel Hannan was expelled from the EPP-ED group on 19 February 2008.
3. [Roger Helmer]
4. [Robert Kilroy-Silk]
5. [Ashley Mote]
6. [Phillip Whitehead]