| Wales | |
| Locationmap2014: | UK-wal |
| Coordinates: | 53°N -3.6°W |
| Map: | British Isles United Kingdom WA highlighted.svg |
| Mapcaption: | Shown in the United Kingdom |
| Created: | 1999 |
| Dissolved: | 2020 |
| Meps: | 5 (1999–2004) 4 (2004–2020) |
| Memberstate: | United Kingdom |
| Memberstatelink2: | the United Kingdom |
| Sources: | http://www.europarl.europa.eu/election/newep/en/pptsuk.shtmhttp://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2004/ep-election/sites/en/yourvoice/uk/law.html |
Wales (cy|Cymru<!--NOTE: Standard Wiki style is that non-English alternative names for articles are in italics rather than bold. This doesn't change for country names — see the articles on Germany or Italy for example.--> pronounced as /cy/) was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 4 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation,[1] until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
The constituency corresponded to the boundaries of Wales, one of the four countries of the United Kingdom.[2] [3]
It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Mid and West Wales, North Wales, South Wales Central, South Wales East, and South Wales West.
| MEPs for former Welsh constituencies, 1979–1999[4] | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Election | 1979–1984 | 1984–1989 | 1989–1994 | 1994–1999 | |||||||||
| North Wales | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Beata Brookes Conservative | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Joe Wilson Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | ||||||||
| Mid and West Wales | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Ann Clwyd Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | David Morris Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Eluned Morgan Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | ||||||
| South East Wales (1979–1984) South Wales East (1984–1999) | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Allan Rogers Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Llew Smith Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Glenys Kinnock Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | ||||||
| South Wales | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Win Griffiths Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Labour | Constituency abolished | ||||||||
| South Wales Central | Constituency not established | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Wayne David Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | |||||||||
| South Wales West | Constituency not established | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | David Morris Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | |||||||||
| MEPs for Wales, 1999 onwards | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Election | |||||||||||||||
| MEP Party | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Jonathan Evans Conservative | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Kay Swinburne Conservative | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | James Wells Brexit Party | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | ||||||||
| MEP Party | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Eluned Morgan Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | John Bufton UKIP | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Nathan Gill UKIP (until 2018) Independent (2018–2019) Brexit Party (from 2019) | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | ||||||||
| MEP Party | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Glenys Kinnock Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Derek Vaughan Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Jackie Jones Labour | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | ||||||||
| MEP Party | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Jill Evans Plaid Cymru | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | ||||||||||||
| MEP Party | width=1px style="color:inherit;background-color: " | Eurig Wyn Plaid Cymru | Seat abolished | ||||||||||||
Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.
| Date(s) | Polling organisation/client | Sample | Lab | UKIP | Con | Plaid | Green | Lib Dems | Brexit | Change UK | Others | Lead | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16–20 May 2019 | YouGov/ITV[6] | 1,009 | 15% | 2% | 7% | 19% | 8% | 10% | 36% | 2% | 0% | 17% | |
| 10–15 May 2019 | YouGov/Plaid Cymru[7] | 1,133 | 18% | 3% | 7% | 16% | 8% | 10% | 33% | 4% | 0% | 15% | |
| 2–5 April 2019 | YouGov/ITV[8] | 1,025 | 30% | 11% | 16% | 15% | 5% | 6% | 10% | 8% | 1% | 14% | |
| 22 May 2014 | 2014 EU election results | 733,060 | 28.2% | 27.6% | 17.4% | 15.3% | 4.5% | 4.0% | 3.2% | 0.6% |
| Date(s) | Polling organisation/client | Sample | Con | Lab | Plaid | UKIP | Lib Dems | Others | Lead | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 May 2014 | EU election, 2014 (Wales) Results | 733,060 | 17.4% | 28.2% | 15.3% | 27.6% | 4.0% | 7.7% | 0.6% | |
| 12–14 May 2014 | YouGov/ITV[9] | 1,092 | 16% | 33% | 15% | 23% | 7% | 7% | 10% | |
| 11–22 Apr 2014 | YouGov/Cardiff University[10] | 1,027 | 18% | 39% | 11% | 20% | 7% | 6% | 19% | |
| 10–12 Feb 2014 | YouGov/ITV[11] | 1,250 | 17% | 39% | 12% | 18% | 7% | 7% | 21% | |
| 2–4 Dec 2013 | YouGov/ITV[12] | 1,001 | 20% | 41% | 13% | 13% | 8% | 5% | 21% | |
| 4 Jun 2009 | EU election, 2009 (Wales) Results | 684,520 | 21.2% | 20.3% | 18.5% | 12.8% | 10.7% | 16.6% | 0.9% |