South East England (European Parliament constituency)

South East England was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 10 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.

South East England
European Parliament constituency
Location among the 2014 constituencies
Shown within England
Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1999
Dissolved	31 January 2020
MEPs	11 (1999–2004) 10 (2004–2020)
Sources

Boundaries

The constituency corresponded to South East England, in the south east of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex.

History

It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East, East Sussex and Kent South, Hampshire North and Oxford, Itchen, Test and Avon, Kent East, Kent West, South Downs West, Surrey, Sussex South and Crawley, Thames Valley, Wight and Hampshire South, and parts of Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes, Cotswolds, and London South and Surrey East.

MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999
Election		1979 – 1984		1984 – 1989		1989 – 1994		1994 – 1999
Sussex East (1979–1994) East Sussex and Kent South (1994–1999)		Jack Stewart-Clark Conservative
Hampshire West (1979–1984) Hampshire Central (1984–1994) Itchen, Test and Avon (1994–1999)		Basil de Ferranti Conservative[1]				Edward Kellett-Bowman Conservative[2]
Kent East		Christopher Jackson Conservative						Mark Watts Labour
Kent West		Ben Patterson Conservative						Peter Skinner Labour
Surrey (1979–1984, 1994-1999) Surrey West (1984–1994)		Charles Wellesley Conservative				Tom Spencer Conservative
Sussex West (1979–1994) Sussex South and Crawley (1994–1999)		Madron Seligman Conservative						Brendan Donnelly Conservative (1994 – 1999)[3] Pro-Euro Conservative (1999)
Thames Valley		Diana Elles Conservative				John Stevens Conservative(1989 – 1999)[3] Pro-Euro Conservative (1999)
Wight and Hampshire East (1979–1994) Wight and Hampshire South (1994–1999)		Stanley Johnson Conservative		Richard Simmonds Conservative				Roy Perry Conservative
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire (1984–1994) Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East (1994–1999)	Seat not established			James Elles Conservative
Hampshire North and Oxford	Seat not established							Graham Mather Conservative
South Downs West	Seat not established							James Provan Conservative

Returned members

MEPs for South East England, 1999 onwards
Election		1999 (5th parliament)		2004 (6th parliament)				2009 (7th parliament)				2014 (8th parliament)				2019 (9th parliament)
MEP Party		Nigel Farage UKIP (1999–2018) Independent (2018–2019) Brexit Party (2019–2020)
MEP Party		Roy Perry Conservative		Ashley Mote UKIP (2004) Independent (2004–2009)				Marta Andreasen UKIP (2009–13) Conservative (2013–2014)				Ray Finch UKIP (2014-2019) Brexit Party (2019)				Robert Rowland Brexit Party
MEP Party		James Elles Conservative										Diane James UKIP (2014–2016) Independent (2016–2019)[4] Brexit Party (2019)				Alexandra Phillips Brexit Party
MEP Party		Nirj Deva Conservative														Belinda De Camborne Lucy Brexit Party
MEP Party		Daniel Hannan Conservative
MEP Party		James Provan Conservative		Richard Ashworth Conservative (2014–2017) Independent (2017–2019) Change UK (2019)												Judith Bunting Liberal Democrats
MEP Party		Chris Huhne[5] Liberal Democrats				Sharon Bowles[5] Liberal Democrats						Janice Atkinson UKIP (2014–2015) Independent (2015–19)				Antony Hook Liberal Democrats
MEP Party		Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne Liberal Democrats						Catherine Bearder Liberal Democrats
MEP Party		Caroline Lucas[6] Green								Keith Taylor[6] Green						Alexandra Phillips Green
MEP Party		Peter Skinner Labour										Anneliese Dodds (2014–17)[7] Labour		John Howarth (2017–2020) Labour
MEP Party		Mark Watts Labour	Seat abolished

Key to political groups of the European Parliament (UK)[8]
Party				Faction in European Parliament
	Brexit Party	29			Non-Inscrits	57
	DUP	1
	Liberal Democrats	16	17		Renew Europe	108
	Alliance	1
	Green	7	11		Greens–European Free Alliance	75
	SNP	3
	Plaid Cymru	1
	Labour	10			Socialists and Democrats	154
	Conservative	4			European Conservatives and Reformists	62
	Sinn Féin	1			European United Left–Nordic Green Left	41
Total		73		Total		750

Election results

2019 results

2014 results

Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the order candidates were elected and the number of votes per seat won in their respective columns.

European Election 2019: South East England[9]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±
	Brexit Party	Nigel Farage (1) Alexandra Lesley Phillips (3) Robert Andrew Rowland (6) Belinda Claire De Camborne Lucy (8) James Gilbert Bartholomew, Christopher Graham Ellis, John Kennedy, Matthew Peter Taylor, George Thomas Stahel Farmer, Peter David Wiltshire	915,686 (228,921.5)	36.07	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Catherine Bearder (2) Antony Hook (5) Judith Bunting (9) Martin Paul Niebuhr Tod, Elizabeth Pendrill Raphael Leffman, Christopher Alan Bowers, Giles Damian Goodall, Ruvi Ziegler, Nicholas David Stanford Perry, John William Vincent	653,743 (217,914.33)	25.75	+17.71
	Green	Alexandra Phillips (4) Elise Danielle Benjamin, Vix Lowthion, Leslie Christine Groves Williams, Phelim Mac Cafferty, Jan Hendrik Jamison Doerfel, Larry Sanders, Isabella Lina Marie Moir, Oliver Sykes, Jonathan Christopher St.Aubyn Essex	343,249	13.52	+4.46
	Conservative	Daniel Hannan (7) Nirj Deva, Richard McDonald Robinson, Mike Whiting, Juliette Katherine Christie Ash, Anna Firth, Adrian Pepper, Clarence Mitchell, Neva Sadikoglu-Novaky, Caroline Anne Newton	260,277	10.25	-20.70
	Labour	John Howarth (10) Cathy Shutt, Arran Richard Neathey, Emma Christina Turnbull, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Amy Lauren Fowler, Duncan Shaw Thomas Enright, Lubna Aiysha Arshad, Simon Guy Burgess, Rachael Eowyn Ward	184,678	7.27	-7.39
	Change UK	Richard Ashworth, Victoria Groulef, Warren Morgan, Eleanor Mary Fuller, Robin John Bextor, Nicholas Mazzei, Suzana Carp, Phil Murphy, Heather Marion Allen, Diane Helen Yeo	105,832	4.17	N/A
	UKIP	Piers Wauchope, Elizabeth Fletcher Philips, Daryll James Pitcher, Martin Toby Brothers, Tony Gould, Clive Keith Egan, Troy De Leon, Alan Harvey Stone, Judy Moore, Patricia Ann Mountain	56,487	2.22	-29.91
	UK EU	Pacelli Ndikumana, Clinton Powe	7,645	0.3	+0.3
	Independent	Jason Guy Spencer McMahon	3,650	0.14	N/A
	Socialist (GB)	Mandy Bruce, Raymond Dennis Carr, David Stanley Chesham, Robert Alexander Cox, Michael Foster, Stephen Harper, Neil Kirk, Anton Charles Pruden, Andrew Brian Thomas-Emans, Darren James Williams	3,505	0.14	-0.1
	Independent	David Victor Round	2,606	0.1	N/A
	Independent	Michael Jeffrey Turberville	1,587	0.06	N/A
Turnout			2,538,945

European Election 2014: South East England[10]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±
	UKIP	Nigel Farage, Janice Atkinson, Diane James, Ray Finch Donna Edmunds, Patricia Culligan, Nigel Jones, Alan Stevens, Simon Strutt, Barry Cooper[11][12]	751,439 (187,860)	32.14	+13.29
	Conservative	Daniel Hannan, Nirj Deva, Richard Ashworth Marta Andreasen, Richard Robinson, Graham Knight, Julie Marson, George Jeffrey, Rory Love, Adrian Pepper[12]	723,571 (241,190)	30.95	-3.84
	Labour	Anneliese Dodds John Howarth, Emily Westley, James Swindlehurst, Farah Nazeer, James Watkins, Maggie Hughes, Chris Clark, Karen Landles, Tracey Hill[12]	342,775	14.66	+6.41
	Green	Keith Taylor, Alexandra Phillips, Derek Wall, Jason Kitcat, Miriam Kennet, Beverley Golden, Jonathan Essex, Jonathan Kent, Stuart Jeffrey, Ray Cunningham[12]	211,706	9.05	-2.57
	Liberal Democrats	Catherine Bearder Antony Hook, Dinti Batstone, Giles Goodall, Ian Bearder, Allis Moss, Steve Sollitt, Bruce Tennent, John Vincent, Alan Bullion[12]	187,876	8.04	-6.11
	Independence from Europe	Laurence Stassen, Joyce Nattress, Paul Godfrey, Alan Sheath, Ken Holton, Mark Henry, Keith Vernon, Michaelina Argy, Seana Connolly, Dorothy Sheath[12]	45,199	1.93	N/A
	English Democrat	Steve Uncles, Julia Gasper, Amanda Hopwood, Simone Clark, Steve Clegg, Milly Uncles, Mike Russell, Mike Tibby, Doreen Dye, William James[12]	17,771	0.76	-1.49
	BNP	John Robinson, Gavin Miller, Eric Elliot, John Moore, Alwyn Deacon, Anthony Banner, Brenda Waterhouse, Mark Jones, Jack Renshaw, Yvonne Deacon[12]	16,909	0.72	-3.64
	Christian Peoples Alliance	Norman Burnett, Suzanne Fernandes, Flora Amar, Rev Anthony, Dorothy Mugara, Kayode Shedowo, Bridget Oyekan, Nnenna St Luce, Chukka Roja[12]	14,893	0.64	-0.89
	Peace	John Morris, Jim Duggan, Julie Roxburgh, Jeff Bolam, Geoff Pay, David Brown, Keith Scott, Imdad Hussain, Minim Chowdhury, Charles Wilkinson[12]	10,130	0.43	+0.02
	Socialist (GB)	Dave Chesham, Rob Cox, Les Courtney, Sean Deegan, Max Hess, Claudia Hogg-Blake, Danny Lambert, Andy Matthews, Howard Pilott, Mike Young[12]	5,454	0.23	N/A
	Roman Party	Jean-Louis Pascual[12]	2,997	0.13	-0.11
	YOURvoice	Julian James, Rachel Ling, Fulvia James[13][12]	2.932	N/A	N/A
	Liberty GB	Paul Weston, Enza Ferreri, Jack Buckby[12]	2,494	0.13	N/A
	Harmony Party	Tony Leach, Raymond Crick[12]	1,904	0.08	N/A
Turnout			2,348,168	36.5%	-1%

European Election 2009: South East England[14][15]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Daniel Hannan, Richard Ashworth, Nirj Deva, James Elles Therese Coffey, Sarah Richardson, Richard Robinson, Tony Devenish, Niina Kaariniemi, Marc Brunel-Walker	812,288 (203,072)	34.8	-0.4
	UKIP	Nigel Farage, Marta Andreasen Steve Harris, Phillip Van der Elst, Harry Aldridge, Victor Webb, Christopher Browne, Andrew Moncreiff, Mark Stroud, Rob Burberry, Mahzar Manzoor, Ray Finch	440,002 (220,001)	18.8	-0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Sharon Bowles, Catherine Bearder Ben Abbots, Jim Barnard, Antony Hook, Zoe Patrick, Gary Lawson, David Grace, John Vincent, James Walsh	330,340 (165,170)	14.1	-1.2
	Green	Caroline Lucas Keith Taylor, Derek Wall, Miriam Kennet, Jason Kitcat, Hazel Dawe, Jonathan Essex, Matthew Ledbury, Steve Dawe, Beverley Golden	271,506	11.6	+3.8
	Labour	Peter Skinner Janet Sully, Bob Fromont, Lisa Homan, Stephen Alambritis, Janet Keene, Munir Malik, Silke Thomson-Pottebohm, Rajinder Sandhu, Sukhi Dhaliwal	192,592	8.2	-5.4
	BNP	Tim Rait, Donna Bailey, Mark Burke, Andrew Emerson, Lynne Mozar, David Little, Peter Lane, Brian Horne, Adam Champneys, Andy McBride	101,769	4.4	+1.4
	English Democrat	Steve Uncles, David Knight, Mike Tibby, Sean Varnham, Cllr Clive Maltby, Laurence Williams, Elizabeth Painter, Gerald Lambourne, John Griffiths, George Herbert	52,526	2.2	+0.9
	Christian	Anthony May, Peter Joyce, Christabel McLean-Bacchus, William Thompson, David Ashton, Alexander Wilson, David Hews, Debra Smith-Gorick, Je'ran Cherub, Kenneth Scrimshaw	35,712	1.5	N/A
	NO2EU	Dave Hill, Garry Hassell, Kevin Hayes, Owen Morris, Gawain Little, Robert Wilkinson, Jacqui Berry, Nick Wright, Nick Chaffey, Sarah Wrack	21,455	0.9	N/A
	Libertas	Kevin O'Connell, Daniel Hill, Neil Glass, Chloe Woodhead, Guy Lambert, Graheme Leon-Smith, Peter Grace, Nicholas Heather, David Peace	16,767	0.7	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Derek Isaacs, Paramjit Singh Bahia, John McLeod, Ian Fyvie, Patricia Ruiz, Richard Mooney, Maureen Stubbings, Derek Stubbings, Mary Byrne, Eleanor Little	15,484	0.7	N/A
	UK First	Petrina Holdsworth, John Petley, Martin Haslam, Jennifer Parsons	15,261	0.7	N/A
	Jury Team	Nick Trew, Nonie Bouverat, Lyn Tofari, Geoff Howard, Gerry Brierley, Anant Vyas, Michael Guest, Tony Sansum, John Lenton	14,172	0.6	N/A
	Peace	John Morris, Geoffery Pay, Jim Duggan, Julie Roxburgh, Keith Scott, Shafaq Iqbal, Jenny Watson, Marcus Trower, Jeff Bolam, David Brown	9,534	0.4	-0.2
	Roman Party	Jean-Louis Pascal	5,450	0.2	N/A
Turnout			2,334,858	37.5	+1.0

European Election 2004: South East England[16][17]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Daniel Hannan, Nirj Deva, James Elles, Richard Ashworth Roy Perry, Therese Coffey, David Logan, Ferris Cowper, Richard Robinson	776,370 (194,092.5)	35.2	−9.2
	UKIP	Nigel Farage, Ashley Mote David Lott, Craig Mackinlay, Timothy Cross, Petrina Holdsworth, David Abbott, Stephen Harris, Michael Wigley, Lisa Hawkins	431,111 (215,555.5)	19.5	+9.8
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Huhne, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne Sharon Bowles, Catherine Bearder, James Walsh, Ann Lee, John Vincent, John Ford, Charles Fraser-Fleming, James Barnard	338,342 (169,171)	15.3	0
	Labour	Peter Skinner Mark Watts, Ann Davison, Simon Burgess, Janet Sully, Mark Muller, Josephine Wood, Raj Chandarana, Gillian Roles, David Menon	301,398	13.7	−5.9
	Green	Caroline Lucas Mike Woodin, Miriam Kennet, Keith Taylor, Alan Francis, Xanthe Bevis, Hazel Dawe, Derek Wall, Anthony Cooper, Michael Stimson	173,351	7.9	+0.5
	BNP	Brian Galloway, Julie Russell, Timothy Rait, Peter Lane, Roger Robertson, Julian Crewe, Adam Champneys, Ian Johnson, Dennis Whiting, Vernon Atkinson[18]	64,877	2.9	+2.1
	Senior Citizens	Grahame Leon-Smith, David Gray, Patrick Eston, Rona Brown, Paresh Kotecha, Larry Kreeger, Michael Devine, Terry Patinson, Ian Murdoch, Alfred Egleton	42,861	1.9	N/A
	English Democrat	Steven Uncles, Robert Sulley, Courtney Williams, Richard Sutton, Jacqueline Brookman, David Uncles, Louise Uncles	29,126	1.3	N/A
	Respect	Ingrid Dodd, Patrick O'Keeffe, Muriel Hirsch, Ajaz Khan, Sally Watkins, Jonathan Molyneux, Norman Thomas, Ella Noyes, Bunny La Roche, Angelina Rai	13,426	0.9	N/A
	Peace	John Morris, Caroline O'Reilly, Geoffrey Pay, Rachel Hancock, James Duggan, Kate Hebden, Cyril Bolam, Carol Morris, Anne Brewer	12,572	0.6	N/A
	Christian Peoples Alliance	David John Bamber, David Campanale, Gladstone Macaulay	11,733	0.5	N/A
	ProLife Alliance	Dominica Roberts, Gillian Duval, Josephine Quintavalle, Penelope Orford, Mark Carroll, Rebecca Ng, John Dixon, Francis O'Brien, Yvonne Windsor, Carl St John	6,579	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Philip Rhodes	5,671	0.3	N/A
Turnout			2,207,417	36.5	+11.8

European Election 1999: South East England[19]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	James Provan, Roy Perry, Daniel Hannan, James Elles, Nirj Deva Bryony, Baroness Bethell, Edward Kellett-Bowman, Alison Parry, Jeremy Mayhew, Barry Tanswell, Richard Ashworth	661,932 (132,386.4)	44.4	N/A
	Labour	Peter Skinner, Mark Watts Anita Pollack, Anne Snelgrove, Parmjit Dhanda, Ann Davison, Tamara Flanagan, John Howarth, Liz Clements, Alison Chapman, Sarah McCarthy-Fry	292,146 (146,073)	19.6	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, Chris Huhne Sharon Bowles, David Bellotti, Jo Hawkins, James Walsh, Barbara Hewett-Silk, Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Catherine Bearder, Christopher Berry, Dorothy Webb	228,136 (114,068)	15.3	N/A
	UKIP	Nigel Farage Christopher Skeate, Tony Stone, Michael Phillips, Bernard Collignon, Ron Walters, Lynda Ross, Harold Green, Kim Rose, Michael Knight, Rob McWhirter	144,514	9.7	N/A
	Green	Caroline Lucas Mike Woodin, Alan Francis, Pete West, Hazel Dawe, Steve Dawe, Alastair Stark, Johnny Denis, Lorraine E. Serrecchia, Laurence Littman, Julian Salmon	110,571	7.4	N/A
	Pro-Euro Conservative	John Stevens, Richard Basset, Anthony Frost, Anahita Gonzalez-Moreno, Mark Littlewood, Rebecca Pickering, Peter Sutters, Alan Armitage, Jonathan Swift, David Hurford-Jones, Richard Carswell	27,305	1.8	N/A
	BNP	Michael Easter, Dennis Whiting, Robert Andrews, Gordon Callow, Mark Cray, Ian Dell, Matthew Gould, Richard Molesworth, Margaret Stones, Christopher Telford, Kevin Yates	12,161	0.8	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Katrina Howse, Ian Fyvie, Nathan Parkin, Hannah Williams, Ken King, Sarah Hipperson, Monica Anne Parkin, John McCleod, Kenneth Ray, John Hayward, Michael Allen	7,281	0.5	N/A
	Natural Law	Peter Warburton, Nigel Kahn, John Oldbury, Jeremy Bowler, John Douglas-Small, Paul Cragg, Paul Levy, Bernard Bence, William Treend, Robert Stephens, John Hunter Thompson	2,767	0.2	N/A
	Open Democracy for Stability	Brian Bundy	1,857	0.1	N/A
	Making a Profit in Europe	John Goss	1,400	0.1	N/A
Turnout			1,490,069	24.7	N/A

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