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| European Parliament constituency | |
 Location among the 2014 constituencies | |
 Shown within England | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1999 |
| Dissolved | 31 January 2020 |
| MEPs | 7 (1999–2004) 6 (2004–2020) |
| Sources | |
| [1][2] | |
Yorkshire and the Humber was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected six 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.
Boundaries
The constituency corresponded to the Yorkshire and the Humber region of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
History
It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Humberside, Leeds, North Yorkshire, Sheffield, Yorkshire South, Yorkshire South West, Yorkshire West, and parts of Cleveland and Richmond and Lincolnshire and Humberside South.
| MEPs for former Yorkshire and the Humber constituencies, 1979–1999 | |||||||||||
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| 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 |
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| Humberside | Robert Battersby Conservative |
Peter Crampton Labour |
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| Leeds | Derek Enright Labour |
Michael McGowan Labour |
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| Lincolnshire (1979–1994) Lincolnshire and Humberside South (1994–1999) |
Bill Newton Dunn Conservative |
Veronica Hardstaff Labour |
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| Sheffield | Richard Caborn Labour |
Bob Cryer Labour |
Roger Barton Labour |
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| Yorkshire North (1979–1984) York (1984–1994) North Yorkshire (1994–1999) |
Neil Balfour Conservative |
Edward McMillan-Scott Conservative |
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| Yorkshire South | Brian Key Labour/Co-operative |
Norman West Labour to 1998 |
Linda McAvan Labour from 1998 |
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| Yorkshire South West | Thomas Megahy Labour |
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| Yorkshire West | Barry Seal Labour |
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Returned members
1Diana Wallis resigned in January 2012.[6]
2Timothy Kirkhope was appointed to the House of Lords in 2016 and as a result was required to resign.[7]
| Party | Faction in European Parliament | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brexit Party | 29 | Non-Inscrits | 57 | |||
| Democratic Unionist | 1 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | 16 | 17 | Renew Europe | 108 | ||
| Alliance | 1 | |||||
| Green | 7 | 11 | Greens–European Free Alliance | 75 | ||
| Scottish National | 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
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Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the order in which candidates were elected, and the number of votes per seat won in their respective columns.
| European election 2019: Yorkshire and the Humber[9][10] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ± | |
| Brexit Party | John Longworth (1) Lucy Harris (2) Jake Pugh (6) James Heartfield, Andrew Allison, Christopher Barker |
470,351 (156,783.67) |
36.5 | +36.5 | |
| Labour | Richard Corbett (3) Eloise Todd, Jawad Mohammed Khan, Jayne Allport, Martin Mayer, Alison Hume |
210,516 | 16.3 | -13.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Shaffaq Mohammed (4) Rosina Robson, James Blanchard, Sophie Thornton, James Baker, Ruth Coleman-Taylor |
200,180 | 15.5 | +9.3 | |
| Green | Magid Magid (5) Alison Teal, Andrew Cooper, Louise Houghton, Lars Kramm, Ann Forsaith |
166,980 | 13.0 | +5.1 | |
| Conservative | John Procter, Amjad Bashir, Michael Naughton, Andrew Lee, Matthew Freckleton, Sue Pascoe | 92,863 | 7.2 | -12.0 | |
| UKIP | Mike Hookem, Gary Shores, John Hancock, David Dews, Graeme Waddicar, Clifford Parsons | 56,100 | 4.4 | -26.7 | |
| Yorkshire | Chris Whitwood, Mike Jordan, Jack Carrington, Laura Walker, Bob Buxton, Dan Cochran | 50,842 | 3.9 | +2.4 | |
| Change UK | Diana Wallis, Juliet Lodge, Sophia Bow, Joshua Malkin, Rosanne McMullen, Steven Wilson | 30,162 | 2.3 | +2.3 | |
| English Democrat | David Allen, Tony Allen, Joanne Allen, Fiona Allen | 11,283 | 0.9 | -0.1 | |
| Turnout | 1,289,277 | 33.0 | |||
| European election 2014: Yorkshire and The Humber | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ± | |
| UKIP | Jane Collins, Amjad Bashir, Mike Hookem, Gary Shores, Jason Smith, Anne Murgatroyd[11][12] |
403,630 (134,543) |
31.1 | +13.7 | |
| Labour | Linda McAvan, Richard Corbett, Eleanor Tunnicliffe, Asghar Khan, Helen Mirfin-Boukouris, Darren Hughes[12] |
380,189 (190,095) |
29.3 | +10.5 | |
| Conservative | Timothy Kirkhope, Alex Story, John Procter, Carolyn Abbott, Michael Naughton, Ryan Stephenson[12][13] |
248,945 | 19.2 | −5.3 | |
| Green | Andrew Cooper, Shan Oakes, Dr Vicky Dunn, Denise Craghill, Martin Hemingway, Kevin Warnes[12][14] | 102,282 | 7.9 | −0.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Edward McMillan-Scott, James Monaghan, Joe Otten, Chris Foote Wood, Jacqueline Bell, Aqila Choudhry[12][15] | 81,108 | 6.25 | −7.0 | |
| An Independence from Europe | Christopher Booth, Kerrie Oxenham, Malcolm Snelling, John Buchanan Martin, Paul Balderson Sootheran, Howard Roy Blake[12][16] | 24,297 | 1.9 | New | |
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