North East England (European Parliament constituency)

North East England European Parliament constituency

Location amongst the 2007 constituencies

Shown within England
Created	1999
MEP(s)	4 (1999 - 2004) 3 (2004 - present)
Member State	United Kingdom
Source(s)	[1][2]

North East England is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 3 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency corresponds to the North East England region of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and parts of North Yorkshire.

The constituency was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Durham, Northumbria, Tyne and Wear, and parts of Cleveland and Richmond.

Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.

European Election 2009: North East England^[1]^[2]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Hughes Fay Tinnon, Nick Wallis^[3]	147,338	25.0	−9.1
	Conservative	Martin Callanan Barbara Musgrave, Richard Bell^[4]	116,911	19.8	+1.2
	Liberal Democrat	Fiona Hall Chris Foote-Wood, Neil Bradbury^[5]	103,644	17.6	−0.2
	UK Independence	Gordon Parkin, Sandra Allison, John Tennant^[6]	90,700	15.4	+3.2
	British National	Adam Walker, Peter Mailer, Ken Booth^[7]	52,700	8.9	+2.5
	Green	Shirley Ford, Iris Ryder, Nic Best^[8]	34,081	5.8	+1.0
	English Democrats	Frank Roseman, Allan White, Garham Robinson	13,007	2.2	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Michael York, John Taylor, James Dodsworth	10,238	1.7	N/A
	NO2EU	Martin Levy, Hannah Walter, Peter Pinkney	8,066	1.4	N/A
	Christian Party	Don Botham, Daniel Parker, Coral Thompson	7,263	1.2	N/A
	Pro:Democracy-Libertas.eu	Ken Rollings, Alasdair Macleod, William Tremlett	3,010	0.5	N/A
	Jury Team	Ahmed Khan, Jackie Riley^[9]	2,904	0.5	N/A
Turnout			589,862	30.4	−10.4

European Election 2004: North East England^[10]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Hughes Mo O'Toole, Joanne Thompson	266,057	34.1	−8.1
	Conservative	Martin Callanan Jeremy Middleton, Amanda Vigar	144,969	18.6	−8.8
	Liberal Democrat	Fiona Hall Chris Wood, Gregory Stone	138,791	17.8	+4.3
	UK Independence	Piers Merchant, Charlotte Bull, Val Cowell	94,887	12.2	+3.3
	British National	Alan Patterson, Andrew Harris, Jenny Agnew	50,249	6.4	+5.5
	Independent	Neil Herron	39,658	5.1	N/A
	Green	Pam Woolner, Nic Best, Judith Brennan	37,247	4.8	+0.1
	Respect	Yvonne Ridley, Yunus Bakhsh, David Stewart	8,633	1.1	N/A
Turnout			780,491	40.8	+21.3

European Election 1999: North East England^[11]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Donnelly, Stephen Hughes, Mo O'Toole Gordon Adams	162,573 (54,191)	42.2	N/A
	Conservative	Martin Callanan Aidan Ruff, Brendan Murphy, Neil Macgregor	105,573	27.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Chris Foote Wood, Fiona Hall, Peter Maughan, Jane Harvey	52,070	13.5	N/A
	UK Independence	Rodney Atkinson, William Brown, Martin Rouse, Graeme Oswald	34,063	8.8	N/A
	Green	Nicolas Best, Ruth Whiteside, Bridget Speight, Michael Greveson	18,184	4.7	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Brian Gibson, Gordon Potts, James Fitzpatrick, Kenneth Hall	4,511	1.2	N/A
	British National	Alan Gould, John Bowles, Iain Wilson, Colin Smith	3,505	0.9	N/A
	Pro-Euro Conservative	Dominic Tilley, Marie Adams, Desmond Harney, John Meredith	2,926	0.8	N/A
	Socialist (GB)	John Bisset, Steven Colborn, Stephen Davison, Andrew Pitts	1,510	0.4	N/A
	Natural Law	Paul Kember, Richard Buswell, Richard Keyton, Christopher Adamson	826	0.2	N/A
Turnout			385,741	19.5	N/A