Party lists in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom explained
The 2019 European Parliament election for the election of the delegation from the United Kingdom was held on 23 May 2019. These were the last elections to the European Parliament to be held before Brexit.
Only constituencies in Great Britain used party-list proportional representation, as in Northern Ireland the single transferable vote system is used.
Constituencies
12 European Parliament constituencies were used, each electing a different number of MEPs based on population:
Brexit Party
The Brexit Party was newly founded for the 2019 European Parliament election.[1] On 8 February 2019, party leader Nigel Farage stated he would stand as a candidate for the party in any potential future European Parliament elections contested in the United Kingdom.[2] [3] MEPs Steven Woolfe and Nathan Gill, also formerly of UKIP, stated that they would also stand for the party.[4] [5]
East of England
The Brexit Party had a list of 7 candidates for the 7 seats available in the East of England. The top three were elected.
| Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
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1 | | Richard Tice | Businessman and Brexit Party Party Chair[6] | |
2 | | Michael Heaver | Former chair of UKIP youth wing and press aide[7] | |
3 | | June Mummery | Businesswoman in the fishing industry[8] | |
4 | | Paul Hearn | | |
5 | | Priscilla Huby | | |
6 | | Sean Lever | | |
7 | | Edmund Fordham | | | |
East Midlands
The Brexit Party had a list of 5 candidates for the 5 seats available in the East Midlands. The top three were elected.[9]
South East England
The Brexit Party had a list of 10 candidates for the 10 seats available in the South East of England.[15] The top four were elected.
South West England
Change UK
See main article: Change UK and Change UK election results. The party announced on 23 April that it would stand a full slate of candidates in Great Britain for the European Parliament elections, including Ashworth, writer Rachel Johnson (sister of Conservative MPs Jo and Boris Johnson); former BBC journalist Gavin Esler;[24] former Conservative MPs Stephen Dorrell and Neil Carmichael; former Labour MEP Carole Tongue; former Labour MPs Roger Casale and Jon Owen Jones; former Liberal Democrat MEP Diana Wallis;[25] and the former deputy Prime Minister of Poland Jacek Rostowski.[26] None of the Change UK candidates won any seats.
London
Ali Sadjady Naiery, a mixed martial arts fighter and former Conservative Party candidate for Ealing Borough Council, was originally placed sixth on Change UK's London list, but withdrew and was replaced after he was found to have made a tweet saying that Romanian pickpockets on the London Underground made him want Brexit.[27] [28] [29]
South East England
South West England
Scotland
| Candidate[33] | Occupation | Elected |
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1 | David Macdonald | Independent councillor on East Renfrewshire Council[34] | |
2 | Kate Forman | | |
3 | Peter Griffiths | | |
4 | Heather Astbury | | |
5 | Colin McFadyen | | |
6 | Cathy Edgeworth | | | |
West Midlands (7)
Wales (4)
Conservative Party
South East England
South West England
Yorkshire and the Humber
English Democrats
The English Democrats fielded candidates in every constituency in England.
Yorkshire and the Humber
| Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
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1 | David Allen | | |
2 | Tony Allen | | |
3 | Joanne Allen | | |
4 | Fiona Allen | | | |
Green Party of England and Wales
The Green Party of England and Wales fielded candidates in every constituency in England and Wales.[50]
East Midlands
!#!Candidate!Notes!Elected1 | Kat Boettge | Green Party candidate for Broxtowe Borough Council in 2019. | |
2 | Gerhard Lohmann-Bond | | |
3 | Liam McClelland | | |
4 | Daniel Wimberley | | |
5 | Simon Tooke | | | |
East of England
London
North East England
North West England
South East England
South West England
Wales
!#!Candidate!Notes!Elected1 | Anthony Slaughter | Leader of the Wales Green Party. | |
2 | Ian Chandler | | |
3 | Ceri Davies | | |
4 | Duncan Rees | Co-Deputy leader of the Wales Green Party. | | |
Yorkshire and the Humber
Labour Party
The Labour Party stood candidates in all constituencies in Great Britain.[64]
South East England
The Labour Party had a list of 10 candidates for the 10 seats available in the South East of England.
South West England
Yorkshire and the Humber
Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party stood 6 candidates for all the seats in Scotland.[81]
UKIP
South West England
| Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
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1 | Lawrence Webb | | | |
2 | Carl Benjamin | | Anti-feminist YouTuber and political commentator | |
3 | Tony McIntyre | | | |
4 | Lester Taylor | | | |
5 | Stephen Lee | | | |
6 | Alison Sheridan | | | | |
Yorkshire and the Humber
Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru, the party of Wales, only contested the Wales constituency.
Yorkshire Party
The Yorkshire Party only stood candidates in the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency:
| Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
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1 | Chris Whitwood | Leader of the Yorkshire Party (2019-2020) | |
2 | Mike Jordan | | |
3 | Jack Carrington | | |
4 | Laura Walker | | |
5 | Bob Buxton | | |
6 | Dan Cochran | | | |
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland has a different party system to Great Britain and used the single transferable vote rather than the party list system to elect 3 MEPs.[85] This meant the party list included one candidate per party for the three seats available.[86] There were 11 candidates:
See also
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