The 1999 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's part of the European Parliament election 1999. It was held on 10 June 1999. Following the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999,it was the first European election to be held in the United Kingdom where the whole country used a system of proportional representation. In total,87 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom across twelve new regional constituencies.
The 2004 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's part of the wider 2004 European Parliament election which was held between 10 and 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union. The United Kingdom's part of this election was held on Thursday 10 June 2004. The election also coincided with the 2004 local elections and the London Assembly and mayoral elections. In total,78 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.
Diana Paulette Wallis,is a British former Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. Wallis was first elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2004 and in 2009. She resigned her seat in January 2012 and went on to pursue academic,legal and mediation-related activities.
Calder Valley is a constituency in West Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Craig Whittaker,a Conservative.
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.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats is a liberal,federalist political party in Scotland,part of UK Liberal Democrats. The party holds 4 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 4 of the 59 Scottish seats in the House of Commons It has 87 local councillors of 1,227..
The Liberal Democrats are a political party in the United Kingdom,founded in 1988. The third-largest UK political party,they have 15 members of Parliament in the House of Commons,84 members of the House of Lords,four Members of the Scottish Parliament,one member in the Welsh Senedd,and over 3,000 local council seats. The Liberal Democrat Conference formulates party policy.
Catherine Zena Bearder is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament between 2 July 2014 and 12 November 2019. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 4 June 2009 to 31 January 2020.
The 2014 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2014 European Parliament election,held on Thursday 22 May 2014,coinciding with the 2014 local elections in England and Northern Ireland. In total,73 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation. England,Scotland and Wales use a closed-list party list system of PR,while Northern Ireland used the single transferable vote (STV).
The 2019 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2019 European Parliament election. It was held on Thursday 23 May 2019 and the results announced on Sunday 26 and Monday 27 May 2019,after all the other EU countries had voted. This was the United Kingdom's final participation in a European Parliament election before leaving the European Union on 31 January 2020,and was also the last election to be held under the provisions of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 before its repeal under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and was the first European election in the United Kingdom to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections since 1999. This was the first of two national elections that would be held in the United Kingdom in 2019 with the 2019 general election being held six months later in December 2019.
A by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Manchester Gorton was scheduled to take place on 4 May 2017,following the death of the sitting Labour Member of Parliament (MP),Sir Gerald Kaufman. It was cancelled on 20 April following the announcement of the 2017 general election. At the general election in June,most of the candidates who were due to stand in the by-election contested the seat,and the Labour candidate,Afzal Khan,retained the seat for his party with a large majority.
The region of Yorkshire and the Humber is divided into 54 parliamentary constituencies which is made up of 25 borough constituencies and 29 county constituencies. Since the general election of December 2019,24 are represented by Conservative MPs and 30 by Labour MPs.
The 2019 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held following the announcement of the resignation of Vince Cable as leader on 24 May 2019,after just under two years as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom. The two candidates to succeed Cable were Ed Davey and Jo Swinson.
Luisa Manon Porritt is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
Shaffaq Mohammed is a British politician who served as a Liberal Democrats Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Yorkshire and the Humber from 2019 to 2020. He is currently standing to represent Sheffield Hallam in the House of Commons at the 2024 general election.
Edward Francis Pugh is a British politician,and businessman. Pugh was a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2019 to 2020.
Caroline Jane Voaden is a British politician and international journalist,who served as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament from 2019 to 2020,and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South West England and Gibraltar constituency from 2019 to 2020.
The 2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held in August 2020,after Jo Swinson,the previous leader of the Liberal Democrats,lost her seat in the 2019 general election. It was initially set to be held in July 2020,but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was delayed by six weeks,having been at first postponed until May 2021.
This article lists the election results of Change UK in UK parliamentary elections and in elections to the European Parliament.
