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United Kingdom European Parliament election, 2009
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Turnout	; 34.7%3.8%
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The European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2009 European Parliament election, the voting for which was held on Thursday 4 June 2009. The election was held concurrently with the 2009 local elections in England. In total, 72 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.

Notable outcomes were the significant drop in support for the Labour Party, who came third, and the UK Independence Party (UKIP) finishing second in a major election for the first time in its history, coming level with Labour in terms of seats but ahead of them in terms of votes. This was the first time in British electoral history that a party in government had been outpolled in a national election by a party with no representation in the House of Commons. The BNP also won two seats, its first ever in a nationwide election.^[3] It also marked the first time the Scottish National Party (SNP) won the largest share of the European election vote in Scotland,^[4] and it was the first time since 1918 Labour had failed to come first in a Welsh election.^[5] It was the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) worst ever European election result, and also the first time an Irish Republican party, Sinn Féin, topped the poll in Northern Ireland.^[6]

Background

Electoral system

The United Kingdom elected 72 Members of the European Parliament using proportional representation. The United Kingdom was divided into twelve multi-member constituencies. The eleven of these regions which form Great Britain used a closed-list party list system method of proportional representation, calculated using the D'Hondt method. Northern Ireland used the Single Transferable Vote (STV).

The experimental use of all-postal ballots in four regions in 2004 was not repeated, resulting in a sharp reduction in turnout in those regions.^[7]

Constituencies and representation

As has been the case since 1999, the electoral constituencies were based on the government's nine English regions, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, creating a total of 12 constituencies. The Treaty of Nice fixed the number of MEPs for the whole European Parliament at 736; as a consequence of the accession of Romania and Bulgaria in 2007, the number of seats allocated to the United Kingdom was reduced from 78 to 72. If the Lisbon Treaty had entered into force by June 2009 this figure would have been 73. On 31 July 2007, in line with the required reduction in representation from the United Kingdom the number of members elected from each region was modified by the Boundary Commission and Electoral Commission, based on the size of the electorate in each region. The recommended changes were approved by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 2008.^[8]

Changes in regional seat allocations^[9]

Constituency	Representation in 2004	Representation in 2009	Net Gain/Loss
East Midlands	6	5	1
East of England	7	7
London	9	8	1
North East England	3	3
North West England	9	8	1
Northern Ireland	3	3
Scotland	7	6	1
South East England	10	10
South West England¹	7	6	1
Wales	4	4
West Midlands	7	6	1
Yorkshire and the Humber	6	6
Overall	78	72	6

¹Includes Gibraltar, the only British overseas territory which is part of the EU.

MEPs retiring

Conservative

Christopher Beazley (East of England)

John Bowis (London)

Philip Bushill-Matthews (West Midlands)

Jonathan Evans (Wales) – Became MP for Cardiff North in 2010

Chris Heaton-Harris (East Midlands) – Became MP for Daventry in 2010

Caroline Jackson (South West England)

Neil Parish (South West England) – Became MP for Tiverton and Honiton in 2010

John Purvis (Scotland)

David Sumberg (North West England)

Labour

Robert Evans (London)

Glenys Kinnock (Wales)

Eluned Morgan (Wales)

Gary Titley (North West England)

UKIP

Jeffrey Titford (East of England)

John Whittaker (North West England)

Roger Knapman (South West England)

Liberal Democrat

Elspeth Attwooll (Scotland)

Emma Nicholson (South East England)

Independents

Den Dover (North West England) – Former Conservative MEP, expelled over his expenses.

Robert Kilroy-Silk (East Midlands) – Former UKIP MEP, created new party Veritas.^[10]

Ashley Mote (South East England) – Former UKIP MEP, expelled for expenses fraud for which he was later jailed.^[11]

Tom Wise (East of England) – Former UKIP MEP, expelled for expenses fraud for which he was later jailed.^[12]

Opinion polls

In the run up to the election, several polling organisations carried out public opinion polling in regards to voting intentions in Great Britain. Results of such polls are displayed below.

ComRes, ICM, Populus and YouGov are members of the British Polling Council, and abide by its disclosure rules. BPIX is not a member of the BPC, and does not publish detailed methodology and findings.

^[13]

Date(s) conducted	Polling organisation/client	Con	Lab	UKIP	Lib Dem	Green	BNP	Others	Lead
Date(s) conducted	Polling organisation/client							Others	Lead
4 June 2009	EU Election, 2009 (GB Result)	27.7%	15.7%	16.5%	13.7%	8.6%	6.2%	11.6%	11.2%
03/06/09	YouGov/Daily Telegraph	26%	16%	18%	15%	10%	5%	10%	8%
31/05/09	ComRes/Green Party	24%	22%	17%	14%	15%	2%	6%	2%
29/05/09	YouGov/Daily Telegraph	27%	17%	16%	15%	9%	7%	9%	10%
28/05/09	ICM/Sunday Telegraph	29%	17%	10%	20%	11%	5%	8%	9%
28/05/09	Populus/Times	30%	16%	19%	12%	10%	5%	8%	11%
21/05/09	ICM/Guardian	30%	24%	10%	18%	9%	1%	8%	6%
16/05/09	YouGov/Daily Telegraph	28%	22%	15%	17%	7%	5%	5%	6%
16/05/09	BPIX/Mail on Sunday	30%	17%	17%	15%	N/A	5%	16%	13%
14/05/09	ComRes/UKIP^{[permanent dead link]}	28%	23%	15%	14%	11%	4%	5%	5%
14/05/09	YouGov/Sun	29%	20%	15%	19%	6%	3%	6%	9%
10/05/09	Populus/Times	34%	25%	6%	20%	5%	2%	8%	9%
09/05/09	BPIX/Mail on Sunday^[13]	36%	23%	10%	16%	N/A	N/A	15%	13%
08/05/09	YouGov/Sunday Times	36%	25%	7%	20%	4%	4%	7%	11%
04/05/09	ICM/TPA^{[permanent dead link]}	32%	28%	9%	22%	1%	1%	7%	4%
08/01/09	YouGov/TPA	35%	29%	7%	15%	5%	4%	5%	6%
10 June 2004	EU Election, 2004 (GB results only)	26.7%	22.6%	16.1%	14.9%	6.3%	4.9%	8.5%	4.1%

Results

United Kingdom

Party		Votes			Seats
Party		Number	%	+/-	Seats	+/-^‡	%
	Conservative^†	4,281,286	27.4	1.0	26	1	36.1
	UKIP	2,498,226	16.0	0.4	13	1	18.1
	Labour	2,381,760	15.2	6.6	13	5	18.1
	Liberal Democrat	2,080,613	13.3	1.1	11	1	15.3
	Green	1,223,303	7.8	2.2	2		2.8
	BNP	943,598	6.0	1.3	2	2	2.8
	SNP	321,007	2.1	0.7	2		2.8
	English Democrat	279,801	1.8	1.0	0
	Christian/CPA¹	249,493	1.6	1.3	0
	Socialist Labour	173,115	1.1	New	0
	NO2EU	153,236	1.0	New	0
	Plaid Cymru	126,702	0.8	0.1	1		1.4
	Sinn Féin	126,184	0.8		1		1.4
	DUP	88,346	0.6	0.5	1		1.4
	Scottish Green	80,442	0.5		0
	Jury Team	78,569	0.5	New	0
	SDLP	78,489	0.5		0
	UK First	74,007	0.5	New	0
	Libertas	73,544	0.5	New	0
	TUV	66,197	0.4	New	0
	Jan Jananayagam (Ind.)	50,014	0.3	New	0
	Pensioners	37,785	0.2		0
	Alliance	26,699	0.2	New	0
	Green (NI)	15,764	0.1	0.1	0
	Mebyon Kernow	14,922	0.1	New	0
	Animals Count	13,201	0.1	New	0
	Scottish Socialist	10,404	0.1	0.3	0
	Duncan Robertson (Ind.)	10,189	0.1	New	0
	Peter Rigby (Ind.)	9,916	0.1	New	0
	Peace	9,534	0.1		0
	Katie Hopkins (Ind.)	8,971	0.1	New	0
	Fair Play Fair Trade Party	7,151	0.0	New	0
	Roman Party	5,450	0.0	New	0
	Steven Cheung (Ind.)	4,918	0.0	New	0
	Socialist (GB)	4,050	0.0	New	0
	Francis Apaloo (Ind.)	3,621	0.0	New	0
	Yes 2 Europe	3,384	0.0	New	0
	Sohale Rahman (Ind.)	3,248	0.0	New	0
	Gene Alcantara (Ind.)	1,972	0.0	New	0
	Haroon Saad (Ind.)	1,603	0.0	New	0
	Wai D	789	0.0	New	0
Total		15,621,503			72	6	100

^†Includes Ulster Conservatives and Unionists (82,892 votes, 1 MEP).

^‡ As the number of seats was reduced, these are notional changes estimated by the BBC.

¹Joint ticket, ran in England as: The Christian Party - Christian Peoples Alliance.

Vote share

Conservative			27.4%
UK Independence			16.0%
Labour			15.2%
Liberal Democrat			13.3%
Green			7.8%
British National			6.0%
Scottish National			2.1%
English Democrats			1.8%
Christian Peoples			1.6%
Socialist Labour			1.1%
No2EU			1.0%
Plaid Cymru			0.8%
Sinn Féin			0.8%
Democratic Unionist			0.6%
Others			4.5%

Seats

Conservative			36.1%
UK Independence			18.1%
Labour			18.1%
Liberal Democrat			15.3%
Green			2.8%
British National			2.8%
Scottish National			2.8%
Plaid Cymru			1.4%
Sinn Féin			1.4%
Democratic Unionist			1.4%

Great Britain

Map showing most popular party by counting area (in Great Britain).

Turnout In Great Britain was 34.3%, with 15,137,202 votes out of a total electorate of 44,171,778.^[7] Most of the results of the election were announced on Sunday 7 June, after similar elections were held in the other 26 member states of the European Union. Scotland declared its result on Monday 8 June, as counting in the Western Isles was delayed due to observance of the Sabbath.

Great Britain kept to the European wide trend towards the right.^[3] The Labour Party, which was in its twelfth year as government of the United Kingdom, suffered a significant drop in support polling third, and UKIP finishing second in a major election for the first time in its history, coming level with Labour in terms of seats but ahead of them in terms of votes. This was the first time in British electoral history that a party in government had been out polled in a national election by a party with no representation in the House of Commons.

The Conservatives won in every region in Great Britain except the North East, where Labour won, and Scotland, where the SNP won.^[7] Labour suffered most notably in Cornwall, where it came sixth behind Mebyon Kernow, and in the wider South West region and South East where it polled fifth behind the Green Party.^[14] The BNP won two seats, their first ever in a national election. The share of the vote achieved by the English Democrats doubled.^[15]

The turnout in Scotland was the lowest in the United Kingdom at 28.8%, with 1,104,512 votes out of a total electorate of 3,872,975.^[7] In Scotland it was the first time the SNP won the largest share of the European election vote.^[16] The SNP share of the vote rose by 9.4% points compared to 2004, this was the biggest positive swing for any party in any region in Great Britain.^[7]

In Wales it was the first time since 1918 that Labour had failed to come first in a Welsh election, dropping 12.2%. In Wales, the Conservative Party topped the poll with the nationalist Plaid Cymru coming a close third. UKIP took the fourth Welsh seat, the first time Wales had elected a UKIP MEP.^[17] Both the Liberal Democrat and the Green Party polled their lowest regional shares in Wales, though
Wales was the only region where the Liberal Democrat share of the vote rose compared with 2004.^[7]

Summary of the election results for Great Britain^[18]

Party		Votes won	% of vote	% Plus/ Minus	Seats	Plus/Minus vs actual '04 result	Plus/Minus vs notional '04 result†	Seats %
	Conservative	4,198,394	27.7%	1.0	25	2	1	37.7
	UKIP	2,498,226	16.5%	0.4	13	1	1	18.8
	Labour	2,381,760	15.7%	6.9	13	6	5	18.8
	Liberal Democrat	2,080,613	13.7%	1.2	11	1	1	15.9
	Green	1,223,303	8.1%	2.3	2			2.9
	BNP	943,598	6.2%	1.3	2	2	2	2.9
	SNP	321,007	2.1%	0.7	2			2.9
	English Democrat	279,801	1.8%	1.1	0			0
	Christian/Christian Peoples Alliance¹	249,493	1.6%	1.3	0			0
	Socialist Labour	173,115	1.1%	New	0			0
	NO2EU	153,236	1.0%	New	0			0
	Plaid Cymru	126,702	0.8%	0.1	1			1.4
	Scottish Green	80,442	0.5%		0			0
	Jury Team	78,569	0.5%	New	0			0
	UK First	74,007	0.5%	New	0			0
	Libertas	73,544	0.5%	New	0			0
	Jan Jananayagam (Independent)	50,014	0.3%	New	0			0
	Pensioners	37,785	0.2%		0			0
	Mebyon Kernow	14,922	0.1%	New	0			0
	Animals Count	13,201	0.1%	New	0			0
	Scottish Socialist	10,404	0.1%	0.3	0			0
	Duncan Robertson (Independent)	10,189	0.1%	New	0			0
	Peter Rigby (Independent)	9,916	0.1%	New	0			0
	Peace	9,534	0.1%		0			0
	Katie Hopkins (Independent)	8,971	0.1%	New	0			0
	Fair Play Fair Trade Party	7,151	0.0%	New	0			0
	Roman Party	5,450	0.0%	New	0			0
	Steven Cheung (Independent)	4,918	0.0%	New	0			0
	Socialist (GB)	4,050	0.0%	New	0			0
	Francis Apaloo (Independent)	3,621	0.0%	New	0			0
	Yes 2 Europe	3,384	0.0%	New	0			0
	Sohale Rahman (Independent)	3,248	0.0%	New	0			0
	Gene Alcantara (Independent)	1,972	0.0%	New	0			0
	Haroon Saad (Independent)	1,603	0.0%	New	0			0
	Wai D	789	0.0%	New	0			0
Total		15,072,325			69	6		100

†Seat change has been adjusted to allow for direct comparison with the results from the 2004 election

¹Joint ticket, ran in England as: The Christian Party - Christian Peoples Alliance.

Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a British overseas territory (BOT) and therefore is under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom but does not form part of it.^[19] Gibraltar is however, part of the EU, the only BOT to be so, and participated as part of the South West England constituency.

Turnout was 35% in Gibraltar, below the 39% for the South West England electoral region as a whole and significantly lower than the turnout in Gibraltar in 2004.^[20]

The Conservatives won with 53.3% of the votes. Labour narrowly retained second place achieving 19% to the Liberal Democrats' 18.2%.^[20]

	Votes won	Vote share (%)	Change (%)
Conservative	3,721	53.3	16.2
Labour	1,328	19.0	9.6
Liberal Democrat	1,269	18.2	10.6
Green	224	3.2	5.5
UKIP	100	1.4	0.3
BNP	94	1.4	0.5
Christian	70	1.0	New
Socialist Labour	56	0.8	New
English Democrat	37	0.5	New
Pensioners	26	0.4	New
Independent - Katie Hopkins	15	0.2	New
NO2EU	12	0.2	New
Mebyon Kernow	8	0.1	New
Fair Pay Fair Trade	8	0.1	New
Jury Team	6	0.1	New
Wai D Your Decision	4	0.1	New
Libertas	3	0.0	New

Northern Ireland

Map of Northern Irish results

It was the DUP's worst ever European election result: the party had previously topped the poll in every European election in Northern Ireland since the first one in 1979.^[6] It was also the first time an Irish Republican topped the poll with Bairbre de Brun of Sinn Féin coming first with 125,000 votes. The share of the votes for most parties in Northern Ireland remained essentially unchanged, the main exceptions were the DUP where their share of the vote fell by 13.8%, and the TUV, a party created by former DUP MEP Jim Allister whose share of the vote rose 13.7%.^[7] The DUP's decreased vote share was largely blamed on the TUV splitting the vote.

Summary of the election results for Northern Ireland^[21]

Party		Candidate	Seats	Loss/Gain	First Preference Votes
Party		Candidate	Seats	Loss/Gain	Number	% of vote
	Sinn Féin	Bairbre de Brún	1	0	126,184	25.8
	DUP	Diane Dodds	1	0	88,346	18.1
	UCU-NF	Jim Nicholson	1	0	82,892	17.0
	SDLP	Alban Maginness	0	0	78,489	16.1
	TUV	Jim Allister	0	0	66,197	13.5
	Alliance	Ian Parsley	0	0	26,699	5.5
	Green (NI)	Steven Agnew	0	0	15,764	3.2
Turnout^[22]					488,891	42.8

Incumbents defeated

Labour

Glyn Ford (South West England)

Neena Gill (West Midlands)

Richard Corbett (Yorkshire and the Humber)

Traditional Unionist Voice

Jim Allister (Northern Ireland) – was elected in the 2004 election as a candidate for the DUP; subsequently in 2007 Allister resigned from the DUP and formed the TUV.^[23] In the 2009 election, Diane Dodds retook the seat for the DUP.

Aftermath

Gordon Brown faced calls for him to resign as Prime Minister after Labour's defeat.^[14]

During the 2005 Conservative Party leadership election David Cameron argued for withdrawal of the Conservatives from EPP-ED and the formation of a new group. After the European election it was announced that the Conservatives were leaving the EPP-ED and forming a new group the European Conservatives and Reformists.^[24] On 22 June 2009, the first official list of the new group's members was released.^[25] On 24 June, the group held its inaugural meeting, in which Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope was named interim leader.^[26] The first election for the group leadership was also scheduled for 14 July, pitting interim leader Kirkhope against fellow Briton Geoffrey Van Orden.^[27] However, both Conservative leadership candidates were forced to forfeit the leadership in order to prevent it from falling apart, when then-Conservative MEP Edward McMillan-Scott defied his party whip and stood for one of the vice-presidency posts despite pledges the previous week that Polish MEP Michal Kaminski would be backed for it. Kaminski's bid for Vice-President of the European Parliament subsequently failed, and the Poles threatened to abandon the new caucus unless Kaminski was made the group leader in the parliament.^[28]

Similarly, UKIP helped found a new European Parliament Group: Europe of Freedom and Democracy after the other parties in UKIP's pre-election European parliamentary grouping, Independence/Democracy had polled badly.^[29]

Summary of the post-election European Parliament Groupings of each party

	MEPs		MEPs
European Conservatives and Reformists	26	Conservative	25
European Conservatives and Reformists	26	Conservatives and Unionists	1
Europe of Freedom and Democracy	13	UKIP	13
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats	13	Labour	13
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe	11	Liberal Democrats	11
The Greens–European Free Alliance	5	Green Party of England and Wales	2
		Scottish National Party	2
		Plaid Cymru	1
European United Left-Nordic Green Left	1	Sinn Féin	1
Non-Inscrits	3	British National Party	2
Non-Inscrits	3	Democratic Unionist	1

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External links

BBC coverage

List of UK candidates for each region

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[11] Staff reporter (9 May 2009). "Euro MP to stand down". The News. Archived from the original on 14 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-19. MEP Ashley Mote is giving up his South East seat, but says he will continue to fight against the European Union.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link) (Archived by WebCite at )

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[fco-19] The 14 Territories

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v t e Elections to the European Parliament
1979	Belgium Denmark (including Greenland) France Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands United Kingdom West Germany
1984	Belgium Denmark (including Greenland) France Greece Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands United Kingdom West Germany
1989	Belgium Denmark France Greece Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Portugal Spain United Kingdom West Germany
1994	Belgium Denmark France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Portugal Spain United Kingdom
1999	Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Portugal Spain Sweden United Kingdom
2004	Austria Belgium Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom (including Gibraltar)
2009	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom (including Gibraltar)
2014	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom (including Gibraltar)
2019	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden
Off-year	Greece (1981) Portugal (1987) Spain (1987) Sweden (1995) Austria (1996) Finland (1996) Bulgaria (2007) Romania (2007) Croatia (2013) UK by-elections (1979–1998)

v t e Elections and referendums in the United Kingdom
General elections	1801 co-option 1802 1806 1807 1812 1818 1820 1826 1830 1831 1832–33 1835 1837 1841 1847 1852 1857 1859 1865 1868 1874 1880 1885 1886 1892 1895 1900 1906 1910 (Jan–Feb) 1910 (Dec) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (Feb) 1974 (Oct) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 Next
Local elections	1889 1890 1892 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
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Referendums	1975 2011 2016

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