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North East England European Parliament constituency

Location amongst the 2007 constituencies

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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.

1 Boundaries
2 History
3 Returned members
4 Election results
5 References

Boundaries [edit]

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.

History [edit]

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.

MEPs for former North East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999
Election	1979 – 1984	1984 – 1989	1989 – 1994	1994 – 1999
Cleveland (1979 – 1984) Cleveland and Yorkshire North (1984 – 1994) Cleveland and Richmond (1994 – 1999)	Peter Vanneck Conservative		David Bowe Labour
Durham	Roland Boyes Labour	Stephen Hughes Labour
Northumbria	Gordon Adam Labour
Tyne South and Wear (1979 – 1984) Tyne and Wear (1984 – 1999)	Joyce Quin Labour		Alan Donnelly Labour

Returned members [edit]

MEPs for North East England, 1999 onwards
Election	1999 (5th parliament)			2004 (6th parliament)	2009 (7th parliament)
MEP Party	Martin Callanan Conservative
MEP Party	Alan Donnelly Labour until December 1999	Gordon Adam Labour from December 1999		Fiona Hall Liberal Democrat
MEP Party	Stephen Hughes Labour
MEP Party	Mo O'Toole Labour		Seat abolished

Key to European parties (UK)[3]					(v.d.e)
British party		Seats/73	EP group		Seats/754
	Conservative	26		Conservatives & Reformists	54
	Labour	13		Socialists & Democrats	189
	Liberal Democrat	12		Liberals & Democrats	85
	UKIP¹	10		Freedom & Democracy	35
	UKIP¹	1		None
	Green	2		Greens & Free Alliance	59
	Scottish National	2
	Plaid Cymru	1
	Sinn Féin	1		EUL-NGL	34
	UUP	1		Conservatives & Reformists	54
	British National	1		None
	Democratic Unionist	1
	British Democratic	1
	We Demand a Referendum	1

¹ UKIP have 11 MEPs in total, but only 10 are in the Freedom & Democracy group, with Trevor Colman as a Non-Inscrit.

Election results [edit]

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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
	UKIP	Gordon Parkin, Sandra Allison, John Tennant^[6]	90,700	15.4	+3.2
	BNP	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	Don Botham, Daniel Parker, Coral Thompson	7,263	1.2	N/A
	Libertas	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
	UKIP	Piers Merchant, Charlotte Bull, Val Cowell	94,887	12.2	+3.3
	BNP	Alan Patterson, Andrew Harris, Jenny Agnew^[11]	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^[12]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Donnelly, Stephen Hughes, Mo O'Toole Gordon Adam	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
	UKIP	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
	BNP	Alan Gould, John Bowles, Iain Wilson, Colin Smith^[13]	3,505	0.9	N/A
	Pro-Euro Conservative	Dominic Tilley, Marie Adams, Desmond Harney, John Meredith	2,926	0.8	N/A
	Socialist Alternative	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

References [edit]

^ Sunderland City Council
^ "2009 election results". BBC News. 2009-04-19. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
^ Labour Party
^ Conservative Party
^ Liberal Democrats
^ UK Independence Party
^ British National Party
^ Green Party of England and Wales
^ Jury Team
^ "2004 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
^ http://web.archive.org/web/20040603103752/www.bnp.org.uk/freedom/regions/necand.html
^ "1999 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
^ "BNP under the skin: Colin Smith". BBC News. Retrieved 2010-05-20.

v t e Constituencies in North East England (29)

Labour (25)	Bishop Auckland Blaydon Blyth Valley City of Durham Darlington Easington Gateshead Hartlepool Houghton and Sunderland South Jarrow Middlesbrough Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Newcastle upon Tyne Central Newcastle upon Tyne East Newcastle upon Tyne North North Durham North Tyneside North West Durham Sedgefield South Shields Stockton North Sunderland Central Tynemouth Wansbeck Washington and Sunderland West

Conservative (2)	Hexham Stockton South

Liberal Democrats (2)	Berwick-upon-Tweed Redcar

North East England European constituency: Labour (1) Conservative (1) Liberal Democrats (1)

v t e 2004–2009 ← European Parliament constituencies 2009–2014 → 2014–2019

Belgium	Dutch-speaking French-speaking German-speaking

France	East Île-de-France Massif-Centre North-West Overseas Territories South-East South-West West

Ireland	Dublin East North-West South

Italy	Central Islands North-East North-West Southern

Poland	Pomeranian Kuyavian-Pomeranian Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian Warsaw Masovian Łódź Greater Poland Lublin Subcarpathian Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie Silesian Lower Silesian and Opole Lubusz and West Pomeranian

United Kingdom	East Midlands East of England London North East England Northern Ireland North West England Scotland South East England South West England (including Gibraltar) Wales West Midlands Yorkshire and the Humber

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