Guide to EU Elections

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The 2019 EU elections are likely to be the most consequential in a generation. Brexit has spurred nationalist, anti-EU groups across Europe, many of whom see the elections as a referendum on the EU's survival. Plus, the EU is still dealing with the fallout from years of austerity, together with the 2015 migration crisis and the subsequent far-right surge. Anti-establishment and nationalist parties are expected to make further gains, and could disrupt the way the EU works if they can find a way to work together.ref

When: Every 5 years, EU voters go to the polls to elect their Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Candidates can either stand independently, or as representatives of one of their country's political parties.
Registration deadline: May.07.2019. You need to register for each EU Parliament election.
EU Elections 2019: May.23-26.

Your Right to Vote
  • If you live in your home country, you can only vote for the EU candidates standing for election in your own country.
  • If you are registered and live in another EU country, you can
    either: vote for candidates standing in your home country,
    or: participate in the election of your host country and vote for candidates standing in that country.[1]
Voting Counts has a page How do I register to vote for the European Elections?.
the3million has a step-by-step guide for EU citizens in the UK and in Northern Ireland. Some good Q & As here
Electoral Commission: Registering to vote, How to vote, YourVoteMatters, National rules.
European Parliament: How to vote if you are an EU national living in the UK

Number of MEPs: Each EU member state has a set number of seats, roughly proportional to the size of its population; the UK has 73. MEPs are elected in multi-seat regional constituencies. The UK is divided into 12 regions; each region has a set number of seats, roughly proportional to the size of its population; elected MEPs represent a particular region.

Who to Vote For
  1. This is a numbers game. Beg, cajole, bribe, or use brute force to get your friends, family, the shopkeeper, out there and vote.
  2. Look at the Candidate Lists for your Region, and note what position (ranking) your preferred choice is in. If s/he is 3rd or lower, there is very little chance they will win a seat. The d'Hondt system forces you to vote for parties rather than candidates; the two parties with the most votes typically end up with the most seats. See § Voting: the d'Hondt System on how it works; and see § MEPs by Region 2014-2019 for how the 2014-2019 MEP elections turned out.
  3. Check your preferred candidate's stance on issues that matter to you.

Brexit: Remainers are going to have to vote tactically. The danger is the vote being split between multiple parties. A #RemainAlliance of Greens/Independent Group/LibDems would have solved this problem, but instead they are playing party politics.[2][3] The LibDems and Greens want the proxy war and momentum to convince people they can get seats at a General Election. The Independent Group see this as a dry run. As for Labour, some MEPs support #Remain, others do not. Same goes for the Conservatives. See A strawman on EP election tactical voting for Remainers.

A moral victory is useless if Brexiters win, so put aside your angst. It is likely that Labour will spin votes for Labour MEPs as "a vote for a Labour Brexit", but Remainers needs to swallow hard and vote tactically. Same goes for LibDems: forget austerity and student fees for now.
Remainers need to work together to consolidate their vote in each area. For eg, if your region's dominant party is Labour, and you vote Green or LibDem, where your party support is under UKIP, you're gifting UKIP a seat. But if higher, you want more!
Some areas, like the SE, are so BluKIP heavy it needs a massive push. Indeed, to wipe out UKIP would be impossible without voting Tory. But pockets like London must push for Lab really hard.@AngryNorthernUK

  • Northern Ireland:
    • Sinn Féin
    • Ulster Unionist Party:
    • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and Social Democratic and Labour Party are both anti-Brexit. With Sinn Féin elected, SDLP will transfer to Alliance (which will include some unionist Remainers) more than the other way around. Vote tactically first for the Alliance Party, then for SDLP.
  • Scotland: Scottish National Party
  • Wales: Plaid Cymru
  • England:
    • Green Party
    • Labour
    • LibDems
    • Conservatives
    • The Independent Group: the jury is still out as to whether TIG are truly Remain; they've avoided putting anything in writing so far: see this Twitter thread. Most advise ignoring them as they are too small to make any impact, and will further fragment the vote.

Voting: the d'Hondt System

In England, Scotland and Wales the voting system is the d'Hondt system of proportional representation. In Northern Ireland, the system is Single Transferable Vote.[4] CGP Grey has an excellent animation which clearly explains STV.
Under the d'Hondt system, you vote for parties rather than for individual MEPs. The most important thing to note is that candidates are selected in order of their ranking, so if your preferred candidate is more than half-way down, it is very likely they won't win a seat.

If your party is split, then you should maybe vote for another party which stands for what you want, otherwise you may not get an MEP who represents your views. (Click "Expand" to see more.)
  1. Each party submits a list of candidates, ranked in order of preference. The number of candidates cannot be more than the number of seats in a given region.
  2. The ballot paper lists the parties' names and their candidates, and any independent candidates.
  3. A number of Selection Rounds takes place; at the start of each Round, the party with the most votes wins a seat, and their current total is then calculated by (Total Votes) ÷ (No. of Seats Won + 1).
  4. When a party wins a seat, the candidate at the top of their list is selected.
  5. Selection Rounds are repeated until all seats are filled.

Example

Using the East Midlands as an example, there are 5 seats available. Say 230,000 people voted, and 4 parties {Greens, UKIP, Labour and Conservatives) put up Lists of their candidates. In each Round, a party's total number of votes is divided by the number of seats it has won so far plus 1. When all 5 seats have been filled, the selection Rounds stop.
  • Total Votes: The votes for each party are added up; any party that has less than 5% of the total vote is eliminated. In our example, all 4 parties make it through.
  • Round 1: Greens have the most votes, so win a seat; then 100,000 ÷ (1 seat + 1) = 50,000.
  • Round 2: UKIP had the most votes at the end of Round 1, so win a seat; then 80,000 ÷ (1 seat + 1) = 40,000.
  • Round 3: Greens came out top at the end of Round 2, so win a seat; then 100,000 ÷ (2 seats + 1) = 33,333.
  • Round 4: UKIP had the most votes at the end of Round 3, so win a seat; then 80,000 ÷ (2 seats + 1) = 26,666.
  • Round 5: Greens came top at the end of Round 4, so win a seat; then 100,000 ÷ (3 seats + 1) = 25,000.
Party Total Votes Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5
Greens 100,000 50,000 (100,000/2) 50,000 33,333 (100,000/3) 33,333 25,000 (100,000/4)
UKIP 80,000 80,000 40,000 (80,000/2) 40,000 26,666 (80,000/3) 26,666
Labour 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000
Conservatives 30,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 15,000
Seats won  

MEP Candidate Lists 2019-2024

Brexit: or shows an individual candidate's stance on Remain () or Leave (). In eg. a Labour stronghold, it's better to vote for a Labour Remain candidate than eg. TheIndependentGroup, because splitting the vote will gift the seat to Farage's TheBrexitParty. Same goes for the Conservatives.
People's Vote: shows a candidate's stance on a People's Vote. Blanks mean we don't know.
Note: These are not the final, confirmed lists. They will be updated as more candidates are announced. (Last updated: Apr.26.2019, 23:30)

East Midlands: 5 seats

  1. Kat Boettge
  2. Gerhard Lohmann-Bond
  3. Liam McClelland
  4. Daniel Wimberley
  5. Simon Tooke
  6. Bill Newton Dunn
  7. Michael Mullaney
  8. Lucy Care
  9. Suzanna Austin
  10. Caroline Kenyon
  11. Kate Godfrey
  12. Joan Laplana
  13. Narinder Sharma
  14. Pankajhumar Gulab
  15. Emma-Jane Marley
  16. Simon Rood
  17. Nick Byatt
  18. Marianne Overton
  19. Daniel Simpson
  20. Pearl Clarke
  21. Nikki Dillon
  22. Rory Palmer †
  23. Leonie Mathers
  24. Tony Tinley
  25. Nicolle Ndiweni
  26. Gary Godden
  27. Emma McClarkin
  28. Rupert Matthews
  29. Anthony Harper
  30. Brendan Clarke-Smith
  31. Thomas Randall
  32. Annunziata Rees-Mogg
  33. Jonathan Bullock
  34. Matthew Patten
  35. Tracy Knowles
  36. Anna Louisa Bailey
  37. Alan Graves Snr
  38. Marietta King
  39. Anil Bhatti
  40. Fran Loi
  41. John Evans

East of England: 7 seats

  1. Catherine Rowett
  2. Rupert Read
  3. Martin Schmierer
  4. Fiona Radic
  5. Paul Jeater
  6. Pallavi Devulapalli
  7. Jeremy Caddick
  8. Barbara Gibson
  9. Lucy Nethsingha
  10. Fionna Tod
  11. Stephen Robinson
  12. Sandy Walkington
  13. Marie Goldman
  14. Julia Ewart
  15. Emma Taylor
  16. Neil Carmichael
  17. Bhavna Joshi
  18. Michelle de Vries
  19. Amanda Gummer
  20. Thomas Graham
  21. Roger Casale
  22. Attila Csordas
  23. Robin Tilbrook
  24. Charles Vickers
  25. Bridget Vickers
  26. Paul Wiffen
  27. Alexandra Mayer †
  28. Chris Vince
  29. Sharon Taylor
  30. Alvin Shum
  31. Anna Smith
  32. Adam Scott
  33. Javeria Hussain
  34. Geoffrey van Orden
  35. John Flack
  36. Joe Rich
  37. Thomas McLaren
  38. Joel Charles
  39. Wassim Mughal
  40. Thomas Smith
  41. Richard Tice
  42. Michael Heaver
  43. June Mummery
  44. Paul Hearn
  45. Priscilla Huby
  46. Sean Lever
  47. Edmund Forham
  48. Stuart Agnew †
  49. Paul Oakley
  50. Liz Jones
  51. William Ashpole
  52. Alan Graves Jnr
  53. John Wallace
  54. John Whitby

London: 8 seats

  1. Scott Aisline
  2. Gulnar Hasnain
  3. Shahrar Ali
  4. Rachel Collinson
  5. Eleanor Margolies
  6. Remo van der Stoep
  7. Kirsten De Keyser
  8. Peter Underwood
  9. Irina Von Wiese
  10. Dinesh Dhamija
  11. Luisa Porritt
  12. Jonathan Fryer
  13. Hussain Khan
  14. Helen Cross
  15. Graham Colley
  16. Rabina Khan
  17. Pierre Kirk
  18. Richard Stevens
  19. Saleyha Ahsan
  20. Anna Novikova
  21. Angela Antetomaso
  22. Richard Boardman
  23. Catherine Mayer
  24. Bea Gare
  25. Nanci Hogan
  26. Aliyah Dunbar-Hussain
  27. Hannah Barham-Brown
  28. Alison Marshall
  29. Olivia Vincenti
  30. Leyla Mohan
  31. Vanessa Hudson
  32. Jane Smith
  33. Sam Morland
  34. Ranjan Joshi
  35. Mina de Rui
  36. Jonathan Homan
  37. Gavin Esler
  38. Jan Vincent-Rostowski
  39. Carole Tongue
  40. Annabelle Mullin
  41. Karen Newman
  42. Ali Naiery (withdrawn)
  43. Nora Mulready
  44. Jessica Simor
  45. Daze Aghaji
  46. Steve Bray (w'drawn)
  47. Roger Hallam
  48. Alan Kirby
  49. Kofi Mawuli Klu
  50. Zoe Delemere Lafferty
  51. Claudia McDowell
  52. Andrew Medhurst
  53. Henry Muss
  54. Mike Shad
  55. Ian Sowden
  56. Andrea Venzon
  57. Claude Moraes †
  58. Seb Dance †
  59. Katy Clark
  60. Laura Parker
  61. Murad Qureshi
  62. Taranjit Chana
  63. James Beckles
  64. Sanchia Alasia
  65. Syed Kamall
  66. Charles Tannock
  67. Joy Morrissey
  68. Timothy Barnes
  69. Scott Pattenden
  70. Attic Rahman
  71. Kirsty Finlayson
  72. Luke Parker
  73. Benyamin Habib
  74. Lance Forman
  75. Graham Shore
  76. Alka Cuthbert
  77. Jimi Ogunnusi
  78. Simon Marcus
  79. Mehrtash A'zami
  80. Aileen Quinton
  81. Gerard Batten †
  82. Richard Braine
  83. Peter Muswell
  84. Freddy Vachha
  85. Peter McIlvenna
  86. Robert Stephenson
  87. John Poynton
  88. Ronie Johnson

Northern Ireland: 3 seats

  1. Martina Anderson †
  2. Clare Bailey
  3. Colum Eastwood
  4. Naomi Long
  5. Diane Dodds †
  6. Jim Allister
  7. Amandeep Singh Bhogal
  8. Danny Kennedy
  9. Neil McCann
  10. Jane Morrice
  11. Robert Hill

North East England: 3 seats

  1. Rachel Featherstone
  2. Jonathan Elmer
  3. Dawn Furness
  4. Fiona Hall
  5. Julie Porksen
  6. Aidan King
  7. Frances Weetman
  8. Penny Hawley
  9. Kathryn Heywood
  10. Judith Kirton-Darling †
  11. Paul Brannen †
  12. Clare Penny-Evans
  13. Richard Lawrie
  14. Chris Galley
  15. Duncan Crute
  16. Brian Monteith
  17. John Tennant
  18. Richard Monaghan
  19. Richard Elvin
  20. Chris Gallacher
  21. Alan Breeze

North West England: 8 seats

  1. Gina Dowding
  2. Wendy Olsen
  3. Jessica Northey
  4. Geraldine Coggins
  5. Rosie Mills
  6. Astrid Johnson
  7. Daniel Jerrome
  8. James Booth
  9. Chris Davies
  10. Jane Brophy
  11. Helen Grime
  12. Anna Fryer
  13. Sam Al-Hamdani
  14. Rebecca Forrest
  15. John Studholme
  16. Frederick Van Mierlo
  17. Sophie Larroque
  18. Andrea Cooper
  19. Daniel Price
  20. Arun Banerji
  21. Michael Taylor
  22. Philippa Olive
  23. Victoria Desmond
  24. Andrew Graystone
  25. Elisabeth Knight
  26. Mohammad Aslam
  27. Tommy Robinson
  28. Stephen Morris
  29. Valerie Morris
  30. Theresa Griffin †
  31. Julie Ward †
  32. Wajid Khan †
  33. Erica Lewis
  34. David Brennan
  35. Claire Cozler
  36. Saf Ismail
  37. Yvonne Tennant
  38. Sajjad Karim
  39. Kevin Beaty
  40. Jane Howard
  41. Arnold Saunders
  42. Wendy Maisey
  43. Thomas Lord
  44. Anthony Pickles
  45. Attika Choudary
  46. Claire Fox
  47. Henrik Nielsen
  48. David Bull
  49. Gary Harvey
  50. Ajay Jagota
  51. Elizabeth Babade
  52. Sally Bate
  53. John Banks
  54. Adam Richardson
  55. Jeffrey Armstrong
  56. Fiona Mills
  57. Nate Rydings
  58. Michael Felse
  59. Ben Fryer
  60. John Booker
  61. Alan Craig

Scotland: 6 seats

  1. Alyn Smith †
  2. Christian Allard
  3. Aileen McLeod
  4. Margaret Ferrier
  5. Heather Anderson
  6. Alex Kerr
  7. Maggie Chapman
  8. Lorna Slater
  9. Gillian Mackay
  10. Chas Booth
  11. Mags Hall
  12. Allan Faulds
  13. Sheila Ritchie
  14. Fred Mackintosh
  15. Catriona Bhatia
  16. Vita Zaporozcenko
  17. John Edward
  18. Clive Sneddon
  19. Ken Parke
  20. Gordon Edgar
  21. Joseph Russo (w'drawn)
  22. David Macdonald
  23. Kate Forman
  24. Peter Griffiths
  25. Heather Astbury
  26. Catherine Edgeworth
  27. David Martin †
  28. Jayne Baxter
  29. Craig Miller
  30. Amy Lee Fraioli
  31. Callum O’Dwyer
  32. Angela Bretherton
  33. Nosheena Mobarik
  34. Iain McGill
  35. Shona Haslam
  36. Iain Whyte
  37. Andrea Gee
  38. Michael Kusznir
  39. Louis Stedman-Bryce
  40. Karina Walker
  41. James Ferguson-Hannah
  42. Stuart Waiton
  43. Paul Aitken
  44. Calum Walker
  45. Donald MacKay
  46. Janice MacKay
  47. Otto Inglis
  48. Mark Meechan
  49. Roy Hill
  50. Neil Wilson

South East England: 10 seats

  1. Alexandra Phillips
  2. Elise Benjamin
  3. Vix Lowthion
  4. Leslie Groves Williams
  5. Phelim MacCafferty
  6. Jan Doerfel
  7. Larry Sanders
  8. Isabella Moir
  9. Oliver Sykes
  10. Jonathan Essex
  11. Catherine Bearder †
  12. Anthony Hook
  13. Judith Bunting
  14. Martin Tod
  15. Liz Leffman
  16. Chris Bowers
  17. Giles Goodall
  18. Ruvi Ziegler
  19. Nick Perry
  20. John Vincent
  21. Pacelli Ndikumana
  22. Clinton Powell
  23. Jason McMahon
  24. David Round
  25. Michael Turberville
  26. Richard Ashworth
  27. Victoria Groulef
  28. Warren Morgan
  29. Eleanor Fuller
  30. Robin Bextor
  31. Nicholas Mazzei
  32. Suzana Carp
  33. Phil Murphy
  34. Heather Allen
  35. Diane Yeo
  36. Mandy Bruce
  37. Raymond Carr
  38. David Chesham
  39. Robert Cox
  40. Michael Foster
  41. Stephen Harper
  42. Neil Kirk
  43. Anton Pruden
  44. Andrew Thomas-Emans
  45. Darren Williams
  46. John Howarth †
  47. Cathy Shutt
  48. Arran Neathey
  49. Emma Turnball
  50. Rohit Dasgupta
  51. Amy Fowler
  52. Duncan Enright
  53. Lubna Arshad
  54. Simon Burgess
  55. Rachael Ward
  56. Daniel Hannan
  57. Nirj Deva
  58. Richard Robinson
  59. Michael Whiting
  60. Juliette Ash
  61. Anna Firth
  62. Adrian Pepper
  63. Clarence Mitchell
  64. Neva Sadikoglu-Novaky
  65. Caroline Newton
  66. Nigel Farage
  67. Alexandra Phillips
  68. Robert Rowland
  69. Belinda de Lucy
  70. James Bartholomew
  71. Christopher Ellis
  72. John Kennedy
  73. Matthew Taylor
  74. George Farmer
  75. Peter Wiltshire
  76. Piers Wauchope
  77. Liz Phillips
  78. Daryll Pitcher
  79. Toby Brothers
  80. Tony Gould
  81. Clive Egan
  82. Troy De Leon
  83. Alan Stone
  84. Judy Moore
  85. Pat Mountain

South West England & Gibraltar: 6 seats

  1. Molly Scott Cato
  2. Cleo Lake
  3. Carla Suzanne
  4. Tom Scott
  5. Martin Dimery
  6. Karen La Borde
  7. Caroline Voaden
  8. Martin Horwood
  9. Stephen Williams
  10. Eleanor Rylance
  11. David Chalmers
  12. Luke Stagnetto
  13. Rachel Johnson
  14. Jim Godfrey
  15. Oliver Middleton
  16. Matthew Hooberman
  17. Elizabeth-Anne Sewell
  18. Crispin Hunt
  19. Larch Maxey
  20. Mothiur Rahman
  21. Neville Seed
  22. Clare Moody †
  23. Andrew Adonis
  24. Jayne Kirkham
  25. Neil Guild
  26. Yvonne Atkinson
  27. Sadik Al-Hassan
  28. Ashley Fox
  29. James Mustoe
  30. Faye Purbrick
  31. Claire Hiscott
  32. James Taghdissian
  33. Emmeline Owens
  34. Ann Widdecombe
  35. James Glancy
  36. Christina Jordan
  37. Ann Tarr
  38. Roger Lane-Nott
  39. Nicola Darke
  40. Lawrence Webb
  41. Carl Benjamin
  42. Tony McIntyre
  43. Lester Taylor
  44. Stephen Lee
  45. Richard Wright

Wales: 4 seats

  1. Jill Evans †
  2. Carmen Smith
  3. Patrick McGuinness
  4. Ioan Bellin
  5. Anthony Slaughter
  6. Ian Chandler
  7. Ceri Davies
  8. Duncan Rees
  9. Sam Bennett
  10. Donna Lalek
  11. Alistair Cameron
  12. Andrew Parkhurst
  13. Jon Owen Jones
  14. June Davies
  15. Matthew Paul
  16. Sally Stephenson
  17. Jackie Jones
  18. Matthew Dorrance
  19. Mary Wimbury
  20. Mark Whitcutt
  21. Dan Boucher
  22. Craig Lawton
  23. Fay Jones
  24. Tomos Davies
  25. Nathan Gill †
  26. James Wells
  27. Gethin James
  28. Julie Price
  29. Kris Hicks
  30. Keith Edwards
  31. Tom Harrison
  32. Robert McNeil-Wilson

West Midlands: 7 seats

  1. Ellie Chowns
  2. Diana Toynbee
  3. Paul Woodhead
  4. Julian Dean
  5. Louis Stephen
  6. Helen Heathfield
  7. Kefentse Dennis
  8. Phil Bennion
  9. Ade Adeyemo
  10. Jeanie Falconer
  11. Jenny Wilkinson
  12. Jennifer Gray
  13. Lee Dargue
  14. Beverley Nielsen
  15. Stephen Dorrell
  16. Charlotte Gath
  17. Peter Wilding
  18. Amrik Kandola
  19. Joanna McKenna
  20. Victor Odusanya
  21. Lucinda Empson
  22. Neena Gill †
  23. Siôn Simon
  24. Julia Buckley
  25. Ansar Ali Khan
  26. Zarah Sultana
  27. Samuel Hennessy
  28. Liz Clements
  29. Anthea McIntyre
  30. Daniel Dalton
  31. Suzanne Webb
  32. Meirion Jenkins
  33. Alexander Phillips
  34. Mary Noone
  35. Ahmed Ejaz
  36. Rupert Lowe
  37. Martin Daubney
  38. Andrew Kerr
  39. Vishal Khatri
  40. Nikki Page
  41. Laura Kevehazi
  42. Katharine Harborne
  43. Ernie Warrender
  44. Paul Williams
  45. Graham Eardley
  46. Paul Allen
  47. Nigel Ely
  48. Joe Smyth
  49. Derek Bennett

Yorkshire & the Humber: 6 seats

  1. Magid Magid
  2. Alison Teal
  3. Andrew Cooper
  4. Louise Houghton
  5. Lars Kramm
  6. Ann Forsaith
  7. Shaffaq Mohammed
  8. Rosina Robson
  9. James Blanchard
  10. Sophie Thornton
  11. James Baker
  12. Ruth Coleman-Taylor
  13. Diana Wallis
  14. Juliet Lodge
  15. Sophia Bow
  16. Joshua Malkin
  17. Ros McMullen
  18. Steve Wilson
  19. Chris Whitwood
  20. Mike Jordan
  21. Jack Carrington
  22. Laura-Marie Walker
  23. Bob Buxton
  24. Dan Cochran
  25. David Allen
  26. Tony Allen
  27. Joanne Allen
  28. Fiona Allen
  29. Richard Corbett
  30. Eloise Todd
  31. Mohammed Khan
  32. Jayne Allport
  33. Martin Mayer
  34. Alison Hume
  35. John Procter
  36. Amjad Bashir
  37. Michael Naughton
  38. Andrew Lee
  39. Matthew Freckleton
  40. Susan Pascoe
  41. John Longworth
  42. Lucy Harris
  43. Jake Pugh
  44. James Heartfield
  45. Andrew Allison
  46. Christopher Barker
  47. Mike Hookem
  48. Gary Shores
  49. John Hancock
  50. David Dews
  51. Graham Waddicar
  52. Cliff Parsons
† MEP in the 2014-2019 European Parliament.

MEPs by Region 2014-2019

  • East Midlands [5]
  • Jonathan Bullock
  • Margot Parker
  • Emma McClarkin
  • Rupert Matthews
  • Rory Palmer
  • East of England [7]
  • John Stuart Agnew
  • Timür Aker
  • Patrick O'Flynn
  • David Campbell Bannerman
  • John Flack
  • Geoffrey Van Orden
  • Alexandra Mayer
  • London [8]
  • Gerard Batten
  • Jean Lambert
  • Syed Kamall
  • Charles Tannock
  • Lucy Anderson
  • Seb Dance
  • Mary Honeyball
  • Claude Moraes
  • Northern Ireland [3]
  • Diane Dodds Non-Inscrit
  • Martina Anderson
  • James Nicholson
  • North East England [3]
  • UKIP Jonathan Arnott
  • Paul Brannen
  • Judith Kirton-Darling
  • North West England [8]
  • Theresa Griffin
  • Wajid Khan
  • Julie Ward
  • UKIP Steven Woolfe Non-Inscrit
  • UKIP Louise Bours
  • Paul Nuttall
  • Jacqueline Foster
  • Sajjad Karim
  • Scotland [6]
  • David Coburn
  • Ian Hudghton
  • Alyn Smith
  • Nosheena Mobarik
  • David Martin
  • South East England [10]
  • UKIP Janice Atkinson
  • Nigel Farage
  • Raymond Finch
  • UKIP Diane James
  • Keith Taylor
  • Catherine Bearder
  • Nirj Deva
  • Daniel Hannan
  • Richard Ashworth
  • John Howarth
  • South West England & Gibraltar [6]
  • Clare Moody
  • UKIP William Dartmouth
  • Julia Reid
  • Molly Scott Cato
  • Ashley Fox
  • Julie Girling
  • Wales [4]
  • Nathan Gill
  • Jill Evans
  • Kay Swinburne
  • Derek Vaughan
  • West Midlands [7]
  • UKIP James Carver
  • William Etheridge
  • Jill Seymour
  • Daniel Dalton
  • Anthea McIntyre
  • Neena Gill
  • Siôn Simon
  • Yorkshire & the Humber [6]
  • Amjad Bashir
  • John Procter
  • Jane Collins
  • Mike Hookem Non-Inscrit
  • Richard Corbett
  • Linda McAvan

MEPs by UK Party 2014-2019

This listing gives a good feel for which EU groups the various UK parties tend to clump in. (Click "Expand" to see more.) For an EU Group's political stance, see below § Overview of EU Political Groups.

Sources: Results of the 2014 European elections United Kingdom: Result by national party European Parliament. Accessed Apr.12.2019.

European Parliament Political Groups

In the European Parliament, MEPs sit in one of 8 political groups, which include MEPs from all across the EU who share the same political affiliation. They do so because it gives them more political power by working together, ie. there is strength in numbers. See also Political groups of the European ParliamentWikipedia-W.svg

EU Party Groupings 2014-2019

Politico has a good interactive map, showing which countries belong to which groups, political ideology, %age of women, and more.
European Parliament Political Groups Brexit UK Political Parties
EPP: § European People's Party <img src="https://www.wikicorporates.org/Images/Something went wrong in Template:party-logo: no such switch option "Independent-Group-Change-UK"." width="25" height="20"/> (2)      
S&D: § Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (19)      
ECR: § European Conservatives and Reformists <img src="https://www.wikicorporates.org/Images/Something went wrong in Template:party-logo: no such switch option "Conservatives"." width="25" height="20"/> (18) <img src="https://www.wikicorporates.org/Images/Something went wrong in Template:party-logo: no such switch option "Ulster-Unionist"." width="25" height="20"/> (1)    
ALDE: § Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe <img src="https://www.wikicorporates.org/Images/Something went wrong in Template:party-logo: no such switch option "Liberal-Democrats"." width="25" height="20"/> (1)      
GUE/NGL: § European United Left / Nordic Green Left (1)      
Greens/EFA: § Greens / European Free Alliance (1) <img src="https://www.wikicorporates.org/Images/Something went wrong in Template:party-logo: no such switch option "Scottish-National-Party"." width="25" height="20"/> (2) <img src="https://www.wikicorporates.org/Images/Something went wrong in Template:party-logo: no such switch option "Green-Party"." width="25" height="20"/> (3)  
EFDD: § Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy <img src="https://www.wikicorporates.org/Images/Something went wrong in Template:party-logo: no such switch option "Brexit-Party"." width="25" height="20"/> (10) (2) <img src="https://www.wikicorporates.org/Images/Something went wrong in Template:party-logo: no such switch option "Social-Democratic"." width="25" height="20"/> (1) UKIP (5)
ENF: § Europe of Nations and Freedom (2) UKIP (1)    
  NI: § Non-Inscrits <img src="https://www.wikicorporates.org/Images/Something went wrong in Template:party-logo: no such switch option "Democratic-Unionist-Party"." width="25" height="20"/> (1) (1) UKIP (1)  
Sources: Members of the European Parliament. European Parliament. Accessed Apr.15.2019.

The EU Political Groups

Below is a very brief introduction to the eight political groups in the European Parliament. A link to its Wikipedia page is at the end of each, for those who wish to know (a lot) more. Current MEPs are shown with their group. (Click "show" to see.)
Note: this Guide only covers UK MEPs. The European Parliament website has an excellent search page for all sitting MEPs.

European People's Party

EPP is the main centre-right group, mostly comprised of politicians of Christian democratic (free market capitalism alongside social policies that establish fair market competition and a welfare state), conservative and liberal-conservative (minimal govt intervention coupled with a strong state to ensure law and order) orientation.ref The group is against taxation, Green issues, LGBT rights and abortion; and for deregulation, controlling migration into the EU and a deeper Federal Europe.ref,ref Website, European People's Party groupWikipedia-W.svg

Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

S&D is a centre-left party, which supports social democracy (economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a representative democracy and a capitalist economy). The group is affiliated with the Progressive Alliance, which is an international group of social-democratic and progressive parties and organisations. Website, Progressive Alliance of Socialists and DemocratsWikipedia-W.svg

European Conservatives and Reformists

ECR is a Eurosceptic and anti-federalist group, which focuses on reforming the EU to become "EuroRealist".ref,ref It is considered right-wing to centre-right.ref David Cameron took the Tories out of the EPP in 2009 because of its pro-EU leanings and instead set up the ECR in an attempt to appease Eurosceptics within his party. The ECR group has received sustained criticism since it was set up for including unsavoury parties from the extreme and populist right.ref All 19 MEPs belong to the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in EuropeWikipedia-W.svg, a political "sub-party". Website, European Conservatives and ReformistsWikipedia-W.svg

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

ALDE is the liberal–centrist (individual liberty and democratically accountable govt) political group, which supports free market economics, small govt, and pushes for European integration and the European single market. ALDE's members are drawn from two European political parties, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe PartyWikipedia-W.svg and the European Democratic PartyWikipedia-W.svg. Website, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe groupWikipedia-W.svg

European United Left / Nordic Green Left

GUE/NGL is a left-wing group whose members are from socialist and communist political parties. The group is opposed to the current EU political structure, but committed to integration.ref The group aims for EU institutions to become fully democratic, abandonment of neo-liberal policies, coupled with co-development and equitable cooperation. Website, European United Left–Nordic Green LeftWikipedia-W.svg

Greens / European Free Alliance

Greens / EFA contains members from Green, Independent and Pirate MEPs, as well as MEPs from parties representing stateless nations and disadvantaged minorities. The group promotes sustainable development, and the linking of trade, security, economic and social issues to environmental, cultural and democratic rights. It is committed to making the Commission fully answerable to Parliament, and to the re-orientation of the European Union, which currently over-emphasises its economic conception at the expense of social, cultural and ecological values.ref The group is particularly against lobbying.Website, Greens–European Free AllianceWikipedia-W.svg

Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy

EFDD is a populist (presents the "morally good people" against the "corrupt elite") Eurosceptic group, opposed to European integration, led by opportunist Nigel Farage.ref,ref All 17 UK members are ex-UKIP; other members are from hard-Eurosceptic populist parties such as AfD (Alternative for GermanyWikipedia-W.svg), and Italy's M5S (Five Star MovementWikipedia-W.svg). The group is a 5th columnist organisation, dedicated to undermining the European Union from within.ref,ref Website, Europe of Freedom and Direct DemocracyWikipedia-W.svg

Europe of Nations and Freedom

ENF is a far-right, populist Eurosceptic group, formed by France's National FrontWikipedia-W.svg and the Dutch Party for FreedomWikipedia-W.svg;ref its members are generally renegades from other parties.ref The group is opposed to immigration and Islam-in-Europe;ref it is xenophobic and nationalistic. It is the smallest group in the European Parliament. Website, Europe of Nations and FreedomWikipedia-W.svg

Non-Inscrits

The NI group contains MEPs who do not belong to any of the political groups. Since 2015, they have mostly been members of far-right parties.ref Non-InscritsWikipedia-W.svg

References

  1. ^ European elections: Your right to vote. European Union. Accessed Apr.12.2019.
  2. ^ Green Party Statement on Fielding Joint Remain Lists. The Green Party, Apr.18.2019.
  3. ^ Britain will have its second referendum – at the EU elections on 23 May. It’s a pity that the most unambiguously pro-European and pro-referendum parties have not had the time, or the shared political will, to make a single combined candidates’ list. However, there is still some room for tactical voting, with voters gathering behind the strongest pro-European party in a given electoral region. Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian, Apr.18.2019.
  4. ^ The Voting System. Liaison Office in the United Kingdom, European Parliament. Accessed Apr.12.2019.