Created: | 1999 |
Dissolved: | 2020 |
Coordinates: | 52.24°N 0.41°W |
Locationmap2014: | UK-e-eng |
Map: | Image:England Region - East England.svg |
Mapcaption: | Shown within England |
Memberstate: | United Kingdom |
Memberstatelink2: | the United Kingdom |
Meps: | 8 (1999–2004) 7 (2004–2020) |
Sources: | [1] [2] |
East of England |
East of England was a constituency of the European Parliament that was coterminous with the East of England region. It returned 7 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 East of England region of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. At the time of their abolition in 1999, these were Cambridgeshire, Essex North and Suffolk South, Essex South, Essex West and Hertfordshire East, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and South West Norfolk, and parts of Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes.
MEPs for former East of England constituencies, 1979–1999 | |||||||||||||
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Election | 1979–1984 | 1984–1989 | 1989–1994 | 1994–1999 | |||||||||
Cambridgeshire (1979–1984) Cambridge and Bedfordshire North (1984–1994) Cambridgeshire (1994–1999) | width=1px style="background-color: " | Fred Catherwood Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | Robert Sturdy Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||
Essex North East (1979–1994) Essex North and Suffolk South (1994–1999) | width=1px style="background-color: " | David Curry Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | Anne McIntosh Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||
Bedfordshire (1979–1984) Bedfordshire South (1984–1994) Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes (1994–1999) | width=1px style="background-color: " | Peter Beazley Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | Eryl McNally Labour | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||
Essex South West (1979–1994) Essex West and Hertfordshire East (1994–1999) | width=1px style="background-color: " | Dr. Alexander Sherlock Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | Patricia Rawlings Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | Hugh Kerr Labour (1994–1997)[3] Scottish Socialist Party (1997–1999) | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||
Hertfordshire (1979–1999) | width=1px style="background-color: " | Derek Prag Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | Peter Truscott Labour | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||
Norfolk (1979–1999) | width=1px style="background-color: " | Paul Howell Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | Clive Needle Labour | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||
Suffolk (1979–1994) Suffolk and South West Norfolk (1994–1999) | width=1px style="background-color: " | Amédée Turner Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | David Thomas Labour | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||
Essex South (1994–1999) | Seat not established | width=1px style="background-color: " | Richard Howitt Labour | width=1px style="background-color: " |
MEPs for the East of England, 1999 onwards | |||||||||||||||||||
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Election | |||||||||||||||||||
MEP Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Geoffrey Van Orden Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||||||||||
MEP Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Christopher Beazley Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | Vicky Ford Conservative (2009–2017) | width=1px style="background-color: " | John Flack[4] Conservative (2017–2019) | width=1px style="background-color: " | Barbara Gibson Liberal Democrat | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||||
MEP Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Bashir Khanbhai Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | Tom Wise UKIP (2004–2009) Independent (2009) | width=1px style="background-color: " | David Campbell Bannerman UKIP (2009–2011) Conservative (2011–2019) | width=1px style="background-color: " | Lucy Nethsingha Liberal Democrat | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||||
MEP Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Robert Sturdy Conservative | width=1px style="background-color: " | Patrick O'Flynn UKIP (2014–2018) SDP (2018–2019) | width=1px style="background-color: " | Richard Tice Brexit Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||||||
MEP Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Jeffrey Titford UKIP | width=1px style="background-color: " | Stuart Agnew UKIP | width=1px style="background-color: " | Michael Heaver Brexit Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||||||
MEP Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Andrew Duff Liberal Democrat | width=1px style="background-color: " | Tim Aker UKIP (2014–2018) Thurrock Independents (2018–2019) Brexit Party (2019) | width=1px style="background-color: " | June Mummery Brexit Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||||||
MEP Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Richard Howitt Labour (1999–16) | width=1px style="background-color: " | Alex Mayer[5] Labour (2016–2019) | width=1px style="background-color: " | Catherine Rowett Green Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | ||||||||||||
MEP Party | width=1px style="background-color: " | Eryl McNally Labour | Seat abolished |
Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.