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. [edit] History 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. [edit] Members of the European Parliament [edit] Election results 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 Party | 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 (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 | [edit] References |