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| North East England | |
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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 | 4 (1999–2004) 3 (2004–2020) |
| Sources | |
| [1] [2] | |
North East England was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 3 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation, until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
The constituency corresponded 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.
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 | |||||||
| MEPs for North East England, 1999 onwards | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Election | 1999 (5th parliament) | 2004 (6th parliament) | 2009 (7th parliament) | 2014 (8th parliament) | 2019 (9th parliament) | |||||||||
| MEP Party | Martin Callanan Conservative | Jonathan Arnott UKIP (2014–18) Independent (2018 - 2019) Brexit Party (2019) | Brian Monteith Brexit Party | |||||||||||
| MEP Party | Alan Donnelly Labour until December 1999 | Gordon Adam Labour from December 1999 | Fiona Hall Liberal Democrat | Paul Brannen Labour | John Tennant Brexit Party | |||||||||
| MEP Party | Stephen Hughes Labour | Judith Kirton-Darling Labour | ||||||||||||
| MEP Party | Mo O'Toole Labour | Seat abolished | ||||||||||||
| Party | Faction in European Parliament | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brexit Party | 29 | Non-Inscrits | 57 | |||
| DUP | 1 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | 16 | 17 | Renew Europe | 108 | ||
| Alliance | 1 | |||||
| Green | 7 | 11 | Greens–European Free Alliance | 75 | ||
| SNP | 3 | |||||
| Plaid Cymru | 1 | |||||
| Labour | 10 | Socialists and Democrats | 154 | |||
| Conservative | 4 | European Conservatives and Reformists Group | 62 | |||
| Sinn Féin | 1 | European United Left–Nordic Green Left | 41 | |||
| Total | 73 | Total | 750 | |||
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Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.
| European Election 2019: North East England [4] [5] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. | |
| Brexit Party | Brian Monteith , John Tennant Richard Monaghan | 240,056 (120,028) | 38.73 | +38.73 | |
| Labour | Jude Kirton-Darling Paul Brannen, Clare Penny-Evans | 119,931 | 19.35 | −17.12 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Fiona Hall, Julie Pörksen, Aidan King | 104,330 | 16.83 | +10.90 | |
| Green | Rachel Featherstone, Jonathan Elmer, Dawn Furness | 49,905 | 8.05 | +2.86 | |
| Conservative | Richard Lawrie, Chris Galley, Duncan Crute | 42,395 | 6.84 | −10.86 | |
| UKIP | Richard Elvin, Christopher Gallacher, Alan Breeze | 38,269 | 6.17 | −23.02 | |
| Change UK | Frances Weetman, Penny Hawley, Kathryn Heywood | 24,968 | 4.03 | +4.03 | |
| Turnout | 619,854 | 32.7 | +1.8 | ||
| European Election 2014: North East England | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. | |
| Labour | Judith Kirton-Darling , Paul Brannen Jayne Shotton [6] [7] | 221,988 (110,994) | 36.5 | +11.5 | |
| UKIP | Jonathan Arnott Richard Elvin, Phillip Broughton [7] [8] | 177,660 | 29.2 | +13.8 | |
| Conservative | Martin Callanan, Ben Houchen, Andrew Lee [7] [8] | 107,733 | 17.7 | −2.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Angelika Schneider, Owen Temple, Christian Vassie [7] [9] | 36,093 | 5.9 | −11.7 | |
| Green | Shirley Ford, Alison Whalley, Caroline Robinson [7] [10] | 31,605 | 5.2 | −0.6 | |
| An Independence from Europe | Sherri Forbes, Nawal Hizan, Mary Forbes [7] | 13,934 | 2.3 | New | |
| BNP | Martin Vaughan, Lady Dorothy Brooks, Peter Foreman [7] [8] | 10,360 | 1.7 | −7.2 | |
| English Democrat | Kevin Riddiough, Sam Kelly, John Lewis [7] [8] | 9,279 | 1.5 | −0.7 | |
| Turnout | 608,652 | 30.9 | +0.5 | ||
| European Election 2009: North East England [11] [12] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. | |
| Labour | Stephen Hughes Fay Tinnon, Nick Wallis [13] | 147,338 | 25.0 | −9.1 | |
| Conservative | Martin Callanan Barbara Musgrave, Richard Bell [14] | 116,911 | 19.8 | +1.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Fiona Hall Chris Foote-Wood, Neil Bradbury [15] | 103,644 | 17.6 | −0.2 | |
| UKIP | Gordon Parkin, Sandra Allison, John Tennant [16] | 90,700 | 15.4 | +3.2 | |
| BNP | Adam Walker, Peter Mailer, Ken Booth [17] | 52,700 | 8.9 | +2.5 | |
| Green | Shirley Ford, Iris Ryder, Nic Best [18] | 34,081 | 5.8 | +1.0 | |
| English Democrat | Frank Roseman, Allan White, Graham Robinson | 13,007 | 2.2 | New | |
| Socialist Labour | Michael York, John Taylor, James Dodsworth | 10,238 | 1.7 | New | |
| NO2EU | Martin Levy, Hannah Walter, Peter Pinkney | 8,066 | 1.4 | New | |
| Christian | Don Botham, Daniel Parker, Coral Thompson | 7,263 | 1.2 | New | |
| Libertas | Ken Rollings, Alasdair Macleod, William Tremlett | 3,010 | 0.5 | New | |
| Jury Team (UK) | Ahmed Khan, Jackie Riley [19] | 2,904 | 0.5 | New | |
| Turnout | 589,862 | 30.4 | −10.4 | ||
| European Election 2004: North East England [20] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. | |
| 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 Democrats | Fiona Hall Chris Wood, Gregory Stone | 138,791 | 17.8 | +4.3 | |
| UKIP | Piers Merchant, Charlotte Bull, Val Cowell | 94,887 | 12.2 | +3.4 | |
| BNP | Alan Patterson, Andrew Harris, Jenny Agnew [21] | 50,249 | 6.4 | +5.5 | |
| Independent | Neil Herron | 39,658 | 5.1 | New | |
| Green | Pam Woolner, Nic Best, Judith Brennan | 37,247 | 4.8 | +0.1 | |
| Respect | Yvonne Ridley, Yunus Bakhsh, David Stewart | 8,633 | 1.1 | New | |
| Turnout | 780,491 | 40.8 | +21.3 | ||
| European Election 1999: North East England [22] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. | |
| Labour | Alan Donnelly , Stephen Hughes , Mo O'Toole Gordon Adam | 162,573 (54,191) | 42.2 | ||
| Conservative | Martin Callanan Aidan Ruff, Brendan Murphy, Neil Macgregor | 105,573 | 27.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Chris Foote Wood, Fiona Hall, Peter Maughan, Jane Harvey | 52,070 | 13.5 | ||
| UKIP | Rodney Atkinson, William Brown, Martin Rouse, Graeme Oswald | 34,063 | 8.8 | ||
| Green | Nicolas Best, Ruth Whiteside, Bridget Speight, Michael Greveson | 18,184 | 4.7 | ||
| Socialist Labour | Brian Gibson, Gordon Potts, James Fitzpatrick, Kenneth Hall | 4,511 | 1.2 | ||
| BNP | Alan Gould, John Bowles, Iain Wilson, Colin Smith [23] | 3,505 | 0.9 | ||
| Pro-Euro Conservative | Dominic Tilley, Marie Adams, Desmond Harney, John Meredith | 2,926 | 0.8 | ||
| Socialist (GB) | John Bisset, Steven Colborn, Stephen Davison, Andrew Pitts | 1,510 | 0.4 | ||
| Natural Law | Paul Kember, Richard Buswell, Richard Keyton, Christopher Adamson | 826 | 0.2 | ||
| Turnout | 385,741 | 19.5 | |||
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