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| European Parliament constituency | |
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 Shown in England, Gibraltar inset | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Electorate | 3,998,479[1] |
| Created | 1999 |
| Dissolved | 31 January 2020 |
| MEPs | 7 (1999–2009) 6 (2009–2020) |
| Sources | |
| EuroParl 2004 Election - EuroParl | |
South West was a combined constituency region of the European Parliament, comprising the South West of England and Gibraltar. Seven, later six, Members of the European Parliament using closed party-list proportional representation allocated using the D'Hondt method of distribution were elected. The constituency was abolished when Britain left the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Boundaries
The constituency consisted of the South West England region of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. It also included the British overseas territory of Gibraltar from 2004.
History
The constituency was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Bristol, Cornwall and West Plymouth, Devon and East Plymouth, Dorset and East Devon, Somerset and North Devon, Wiltshire North and Bath, and parts of Cotswolds.
Before the 2004 election, it was expanded to include Gibraltar. This was the result of a 1999 European Court of Human Rights case, which argued that Gibraltar should be entitled to vote in European elections. Spain took a complaint about non-EU Commonwealth citizens resident in Gibraltar participating in European elections to the European Court of Justice, but their case was unsuccessful.[2]
The number of seats was reduced from seven to six for the 2009 election.[3]
| MEPs for former South West England constituencies, 1979 – 1999 | |||||||||
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| Election | 1979 – 1984 | 1984 – 1989 | 1989 – 1994 | 1994 – 1999 | |||||
| Bristol | Richard Cottrell Conservative |
Ian White Labour |
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| Cornwall and Plymouth (1979–1994) Cornwall and West Plymouth (1994–1999) |
David Harris Conservative |
Christopher Beazley Conservative |
Robin Teverson Liberal Democrat |
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| Cotswolds | Lord Plumb Conservative |
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| Devon (1979–1994) Devon and East Plymouth (1994–1999) |
Lord O'Hagan Conservative |
Giles Chichester Conservative |
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| Somerset (1979–1984) Somerset and Dorset West (1984–1994) Somerset and North Devon (1994–1999) |
Frederick Warner Conservative |
Margaret Daly Conservative |
Graham Watson Liberal Democrat |
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| Upper Thames (1979–1984) Wiltshire (1984–1994) Wiltshire North and Bath (1994–1999) |
Robert Jackson Conservative |
Caroline Jackson Conservative |
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| Wessex (1979–1984) Dorset East and Hampshire West (1984–1994) Dorset and East Devon (1994–1999) |
James Spicer Conservative |
Bryan Cassidy Conservative |
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Returned members
| MEPs for South West England, 1999 onwards | |||||||||||||||
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| Election | 1999 (5th parliament) | 2004 (6th parliament) | 2009 (7th parliament) | 2014 (8th parliament) | 2019 (9th parliament) | ||||||||||
| MEP Party |
Michael Holmes[4] UKIP (1999–2000) Independent (2000–02) |
Graham Booth[5] UKIP |
Trevor Colman[6] UKIP |
Julia Reid UKIP (2014–18) Independent (2018–19) Brexit Party |
Ann Widdecombe Brexit Party |
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| MEP Party |
2nd Earl of Stockton Conservative |
Roger Knapman UKIP |
10th Earl of Dartmouth UKIP (2009–18) Independent (2018–19) |
James Glancy Brexit Party |
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| MEP Party |
Caroline Jackson Conservative |
Ashley Fox Conservative |
Christina Jordan Brexit Party |
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| MEP Party |
Neil Parish Conservative |
Julie Girling Conservative (2009–17) Independent (2017–19) Change UK (2019) Renew |
Caroline Voaden Liberal Democrat |
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| MEP Party |
Giles Chichester Conservative |
Clare Moody Labour |
Martin Horwood Liberal Democrat |
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| MEP Party |
Graham Watson Liberal Democrat |
Molly Scott Cato Green |
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| MEP Party |
Glyn Ford Labour GSLP |
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Election results
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See also: 2004 European Parliament election in Gibraltar and 2009 European Parliament election in Gibraltar
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Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the order in which candidates were elected and number of votes per seat won in their respective columns.
| European Election 2019: South West England[7] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ± | |
| Brexit Party | Ann Widdecombe (1) James Glancy (3) Christina Jordan (5) Ann Tarr, Roger Lane-Nott, Nicola Darke |
611,742 (203,914) |
36.84 | New | |
| Liberal Democrats | Caroline Voaden (2) Martin Horwood (6) Stephen Williams, Eleanor Rylance, David Chalmers, Luke Stagnetto |
385,095 (192,547.5) |
23.19 | +12.49 | |
| Green | Molly Scott Cato (4) Cleo Lake, Carla Denyer, Tom Scott, Martin Dimery, Karen La Borde |
302,364 | 18.21 | +7.11 | |
| Conservative | Ashley Fox, James Mustoe, Faye Purbrick, Claire Hiscott, James Taghdissian, Emmline Owens | 144,674 | 8.71 | –20.19 | |
| Labour | Clare Moody, Andrew Adonis, Jayne Kirkham, Neil Guild, Yvonne Atkinson, Sadik Al-Hassan | 108,100 | 6.51 | –7.24 | |
| UKIP | Lawrence Webb, Carl Benjamin, Anthony McIntyre, Lester Taylor, Stephen Lee, Alison Sheridan | 53,739 | 3.24 | –29.05 | |
| Change UK | Rachel Johnson, Jim Godfrey, Oliver Middleton, Matthew Hooberman, Elizabeth-Anne Sewell, Crispin Hunt | 46,612 | 2.81 | New | |
| English Democrat | Jenny Knight, Michael Blundell | 8,393 | 0.51 | –0.49 | |
| Independent | Neville Seed | 3,383 | 0.20 | New | |
| Independent | Larch Maxey | 1,722 | 0.10 | New | |
| Independent | Mothiur Rahman | 755 | 0.04 | New | |
| Turnout | 1,676,173 | 40.45 | +3.45 | ||
| European Election 2014: South West England[8] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ± | |
| UKIP | William Dartmouth, Julia Reid, Gawain Towler, Tony McIntyre, Robert Smith, Keith Crawford |
484,184 (242,092) |
32.29 | +10.2 | |
| Conservative | Ashley Fox, Julie Girling, James Cracknell, Georgina Butler, Sophia Swire, Melisa Maynard |
433,151 (216,575.5) |
28.9 | −1.36 | |
| Labour | Clare Moody, Glyn Ford, Ann Reeder, Hadleigh Roberts, Jude Robinson, Junab Ali |
206,124 | 13.75 | +6.1 | |
| Green | Molly Scott Cato, Emily McIvor, Ricky Knight, Audaye Elesedy, Judy Maciejowska, Mark Chivers |
166,447 | 11.1 | +1.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Graham Watson, Kay Barnard, Brian Mathew, Andrew Wigley, Jay Risbridger, Lyana Armstrong-Emery[9] | 160,376 | 10.7 | −6.5 | |
| An Independence from Europe | David Smith, Helen Webster, Mike Camp, Andrew Edwards, Phil Dunn, John Taverner | 23,169 | 1.6 | New | |
| English Democrat | Alan England, Mike Blundell, Clive Lavelle, Barbara Wright, Stephen Wright, Raymond Carr | 15,081 | 1.0 | −0.6 | |
| BNP | Adrian Rommilly, Cliff Jones, Arnold Brindle, Wayne Tomlinson, Andrew Webster, Giuseppe De Santis | 10,910 | 0.7 | −3.2 | |
| Turnout | 1,503,174 | 37.0 | −1.8 | ||