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]
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
- This is a numbers game. Beg, cajole, bribe, or use brute force to get your friends, family, the shopkeeper, out there and vote.
- 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.
- Check your preferred candidate's party'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
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.)
- 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.
- The ballot paper lists the parties' names and their candidates, and any independent candidates.
- 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).
- When a party wins a seat, the candidate at the top of their list is selected.
- 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 |
|
|
|
|
|
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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.
(Last updated: May.01.2019)
East Midlands: 5 seats |
- Green Party
- Kat Boettge
- Gerhard Lohmann-Bond
- Liam McClelland
- Daniel Wimberley
- Simon Tooke
- Liberal Democrats
- Bill Newton Dunn
- Michael Mullaney
- Lucy Care
- Suzanna Marie Austin
- Caroline Kenyon
- The Independent Group
- Kate Godfrey
- Joan Pons Laplana
- Narinder Sharma
- Pankajhumar Chhagan Gulab
- Emma Jane Marley
- Independent Candidates
- Simon Louis Rood
- The Independent Network
- Nick Byatt
- Marianne Overton
- Daniel Anthony Simpson
- Pearl Winifred Clarke
- Nikki Dillon
- Labour Party
- Rory Palmer †
- Leonie Mathers
- Tony Tinley
- Nicolle Ndiweni
- Gary Godden
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Emma McClarkin
- Rupert Matthews
- Anthony Harper
- Brendan Clarke-Smith
- Thomas William Randall
- Brexit Party
- Annunziata Rees-Mogg
- Jonathan Bullock
- Matthew Richard Patten
- Tracy Selina Knowles
- Anna Louisa Bailey
- UK Independence Party
- Alan Graves Snr
- Marietta King
- Anil Bhatti
- Fran Loi
- John Evans
|
East of England: 7 seats |
- Green Party
- Catherine Rowett
- Rupert Read
- Martin Schmierer
- Fiona Radic
- Paul Jeater
- Pallavi Devulapalli
- Jeremy Caddick
- Liberal Democrats
- Barbara Gibson
- Lucy Kathleen Nethsingha
- Fionna Tod
- Stephen Robinson
- Sandy Walkington
- Marie Goldman
- Julia Ewart
- Independent Group
- Emma Taylor
- Neil Carmichael
- Bhavna Joshi
- Michelle de Vries
- Amanda Gummer
- Thomas Graham
- Roger Casale
- Independent Candidates
- Attila Csordas
- English Democrats
- Robin Tilbrook
- Charles Vickers
- Bridget Vickers
- Paul Kevin Wiffen
- Labour Party
- Alexandra Mayer †
- Chris Vince
- Sharon Taylor
- Alvin Shum
- Anna Smith
- Adam Scott
- Javeria Hussain
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Geoffrey van Orden
- John Flack
- Joe Rich
- Thomas Rhys McLaren
- Joel Ralph Charles
- Wassim Mughal
- Thomas Roger Smith
- Brexit Party
- Richard James Tice
- Michael Heaver
- June Alison Mummery
- Paul Joseph Hearn
- Priscilla Mary Huby
- Sean Robert Lever
- Edmund John Forham
- UK Independence Party
- Stuart Agnew †
- Paul Oakley
- Liz Jones
- William Ashpole
- Alan Graves Jnr
- John Wallace
- John Whitby
|
London: 8 seats |
- Green Party
- Scott Aisline
- Gulnar Hasnain
- Shahrar Ali
- Rachel Collinson
- Eleanor Margolies
- Remo van der Stoep
- Kirsten De Keyser
- Peter Underwood
- Liberal Democrats
- Irina Von Wiese
- Dinesh Dhamija
- Luisa Porritt
- Jonathan Fryer
- Hussain Khan
- Helen Cross
- Graham Colley
- Rabina Khan
- UK European Union Party
- Pierre Kirk
- Richard Stevens
- Saleyha Ahsan
- Anna Novikova
- Angela Antetomaso
- Richard Boardman
- Women's Equality Party
- Catherine Mayer
- Bea Gare
- Nanci Hogan
- Aliyah Dunbar-Hussain
- Hannah Barham-Brown
- Alison Marshall
- Olivia Vincenti
- Leyla Mohan
- Animal Welfare Party
- Vanessa Helen Hudson
- Jane Catherine Smith
- Sam Morland
- Ranjan Joshi
- Mina de Rui
- Jonathan Homan
- Simon Gouldman
- Independent Group
- Gavin Esler
- Jan Rostowski
- Carole Tongue
- Annabelle Mullin
- Karen Melanie Newman
- Nora Mulready
- Jessica Simor
- Haseeb Ur-Rehman
- Independent Candidates
- Daze Aghaji
- Steve Bray (w'drawn)
- Roger Hallam
- Alan Kirby
- Kofi Mawuli Klu
- Zoe Delemere Lafferty
- Claudia McDowell
- Andrew Medhurst
- Henry Muss
- Mike Shad
- Ian Sowden
- Andrea Venzon
- Labour Party
- Claude Moraes †
- Seb Dance †
- Katy Clark
- Laura Parker
- Murad Qureshi
- Taranjit Chana
- James Beckles
- Sanchia Alasia
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Syed Kamall
- Charles Tannock
- Joy Morrissey
- Timothy Barnes
- Scott Curtis Pattenden
- Attic Rahman
- Kirsty Finlayson
- Luke Parker
- Brexit Party
- Benyamin Habib
- Lance Forman
- Graham Shore
- Alka Cuthbert
- Jimi Ogunnusi
- Simon Marcus
- Mehrtash A'zami
- Aileen Quinton
- UK Independence Party
- Gerard Batten †
- Richard Braine
- Peter Muswell
- Freddy Vachha
- Peter McIlvenna
- Robert Stephenson
- John Poynton
- Ronie Johnson
|
Northern Ireland: 3 seats |
- Sinn Féin
- Martina Anderson †
- Green Party
- Clare Bailey
- Social Democratic & Labour Party
- Colum Eastwood
- Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Naomi Long
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Diane Dodds †
- Traditional Unionist Voice
- Jim Allister
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Amandeep Singh Bhogal
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Danny Kennedy
- Independent Candidates
- Neil McCann
- Jane Morrice
- UK Independence Party
- Robert Hill
|
North East England: 3 seats |
- Green Party
- Rachel Featherstone
- Jonathan Elmer
- Dawn Furness
- Liberal Democrats
- Fiona Hall
- Julie Pörksen
- Aidan King
- Independent Group
- Frances Helena Weetman
- Penny Hawley
- Kathryn Louise Heywood
- Labour Party
- Judith Kirton-Darling †
- Paul Brannen †
- Clare Penny-Evans
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Richard Lawrie
- Chris Galley
- Duncan Crute
- Brexit Party
- Brian Monteith
- John David Tennant
- Richard Leslie Monaghan
- UK Independence Party
- Richard Elvin
- Chris Gallacher
- Alan Breeze
|
North West England: 8 seats |
- Green Party
- Gina Dowding
- Wendy Olsen
- Jessica Northey
- Geraldine Coggins
- Rosie Mills
- Astrid Johnson
- Daniel Jerrome
- James Booth
- Liberal Democrats
- Chris Davies
- Jane Brophy
- Helen Foster-Grime
- Anna Fryer
- Sam Al-Hamdani
- Rebecca Forrest
- John Studholme
- Frederick Van Mierlo
- UK European Union Party
- Sophie Catherine Larroque
- Independent Group
- Andrea Cooper
- Daniel Price
- Arun Rammoy Banerji
- Michael Taylor
- Philippa Olive
- Victoria Ann Desmond
- Andrew Graystone
- Elisabeth Marisa Knight
- Independent Candidates
- Mohammad Aslam
- Tommy Robinson
- English Democrats
- Stephen Morris
- Valerie Morris
- Labour Party
- Theresa Griffin †
- Julie Ward †
- Wajid Khan †
- Erica Lewis
- David Brennan
- Claire Cozler
- Saf Ismail
- Yvonne Tennant
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Sajjad Karim
- Kevin Beaty
- Jane Alizabeth Howard
- Arnold Saunders
- Wendy Maisey
- Thomas Baxter Lord
- Anthony Pickles
- Attika Salim Choudhary
- Brexit Party
- Claire Fox
- Henrik Eyser Nielsen
- David Bull
- Gary Walter Harvey
- Ajay Jagota
- Elizabeth Oyedoyin Babade
- Sally Ann Bate
- John Howard Banks
- UK Independence Party
- Adam Richardson
- Jeffrey Armstrong
- Fiona Mills
- Nate Rydings
- Michael Felse
- Ben Fryer
- John Booker
- Alan Craig
|
Scotland: 6 seats |
- Scottish Green Party
- Maggie Chapman
- Lorna Slater
- Gillian Mackay
- Chas Booth
- Mags Hall
- Allan Faulds
- Scottish National Party
- Alyn Smith †
- Christian Allard
- Aileen McLeod
- Margaret Ferrier
- Heather Anderson
- Alex Kerr
- Liberal Democrats
- Sheila Ritchie
- Fred Mackintosh
- Catriona Bhatia
- Vita Zaporozcenko
- John Edward
- Clive Sneddon
- Independent Candidates
- Ken Parke
- Gordon Edgar
- Independent Group
- David Macdonald
- Peter Griffiths
- Kate Forman
- Heather Astbury
- Colin McFadyen
- Catherine Edgeworth
- Labour Party
- David Martin †
- Jayne Baxter
- Craig Miller
- Amy Lee Fraioli
- Callum O’Dwyer
- Angela Bretherton
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Nosheena Mobarik †
- Iain McGill
- Shona Haslam
- Iain Whyte
- Andrea Gee
- Michael Kusznir
- Brexit Party
- Louis Stedman-Bruce
- Karina Kielbinska Walker
- James Ferguson-Hannah
- Stuart James Waiton
- Paul Andrew Aitken
- Calum Walker
- UK Independence Party
- Donald MacKay
- Janice MacKay
- Otto Inglis
- Mark Meechan
- Roy Hill
- Neil Wilson
|
South East England: 10 seats |
- Green Party
- Alexandra Phillips
- Elise Danielle Benjamin
- Vix Lowthion
- Leslie Groves Williams
- Phélim Mac Cafferty
- Jan Hendrik Doerfel
- Larry Sanders
- Isabella Moir
- Oliver Sykes
- Jonathan Essex
- Liberal Democrats
- Catherine Bearder †
- Anthony James Hook
- Judith Bunting
- Martin Tod
- Liz Leffman
- Chris Bowers
- Giles Goodall
- Ruvi Ziegler
- Nick Perry
- John Vincent
- UK European Union Party
- Pacelli Ndikumana
- Clinton Powell
- Independent Candidates
- Jason Guy McMahon
- David Victor Round
- Michael Jeffrey Turberville
- Independent Group
- Richard Ashworth
- Victoria Groulef
- Warren Morgan
- Eleanor Mary Fuller
- Robin John Bextor
- Nicholas Mazzei
- Suzana Carp
- Phil Murphy
- Heather Marion Allen
- Diane Helen Yeo
- Socialist Party of Great Britain
- Mandy Bruce
- Raymond Dennis Carr
- David Chesham
- Robert Alexander Cox
- Michael Foster
- Stephen Harper
- Neil Kirk
- Anton Charles Pruden
- Andrew Thomas-Emans
- Darren James Williams
- Labour Party
- John Howarth †
- Cathy Shutt
- Arran Neathey
- Emma Christina Turnball
- Rohit Dasgupta
- Amy Fowler
- Duncan Enright
- Lubna Arshad
- Simon Burgess
- Rachael Ward
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Daniel Hannan
- Nirj Deva
- Richard Robinson
- Michael Whiting
- Juliette Ash
- Anna Firth
- Adrian Pepper
- Clarence Mitchell
- Neva Sadikoglu-Novaky
- Caroline Newton
- Brexit Party
- Nigel Farage
- Alexandra Lesley Phillips
- Robert Andrew Rowland
- Belinda Claire de Lucy
- James Gilbert Bartholomew
- Christopher Graham Ellis
- John Kennedy
- Matthew Peter Taylor
- George Thomas Farmer
- Peter David Wiltshire
- UK Independence Party
- Piers Wauchope
- Liz Phillips
- Daryll Pitcher
- Toby Brothers
- Tony Gould
- Clive Keith Egan
- Troy De Leon
- Alan Harvey Stone
- Judy Moore
- Pat Mountain
|
South West England & Gibraltar: 6 seats |
- Green Party
- Molly Scott Cato †
- Cleo Alberta Lake
- Carla Suzanne Denyer
- Tom Scott
- Martin Dimery
- Karen Margaret La Borde
- Liberal Democrats
- Caroline Voaden
- Martin Horwood
- Stephen Williams
- Eleanor Rylance
- David Chalmers
- Luke Oliver Stagnetto
- Independent Group
- Rachel Johnson
- Jim Godfrey
- Oliver Middleton
- Matthew Hooberman
- Elizabeth-Anne Sewell
- Crispin Hunt
- Independent Candidates
- Larch Maxey
- Mothiur Rahman
- Neville Seed
- English Democrats
- Jenny Knight
- Mike Blundell
- Labour Party
- Clare Moody †
- Andrew Adonis
- Jayne Kirkham
- Neil Guild
- Yvonne Atkinson
- Sadik Adam Al-Hassan
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Ashley Fox
- James Michael Mustoe
- Faye Purbrick
- Claire Hiscott
- James Taghdissian
- Emmeline Owens
- Brexit Party
- Ann Widdecombe
- James Alexander Glancy
- Christina Sheila Jordan
- Ann Christine Tarr
- Roger Charles Lane-Nott
- Nicola Jane Darke
- UK Independence Party
- Lawrence Webb
- Carl Benjamin
- Tony McIntyre
- Lester Geoffrey Taylor
- Stephen Lee
- Alison Jane Sheridan
|
Wales: 4 seats |
- Plaid Cymru
- Jill Evans †
- Carmen Ria Smith
- Patrick McGuinness
- Ioan Bellin
- Green Party
- Anthony Slaughter
- Ian Chandler
- Ceri Davies
- Duncan Rees
- Liberal Democrats
- Sam Bennett
- Donna Lalek
- Alistair Cameron
- Andrew Parkhurst
- Independent Group
- Jon Owen Jones
- June Davies
- Matthew Paul
- Sally Anne Stephenson
- Labour Party
- Jackie Jones
- Matthew James Dorrance
- Mary Wimbury
- Mark Jeffrey Whitcutt
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Dan Boucher
- Craig Lawton
- Fay Alicia Jones
- Tomos Dafydd Davies
- Brexit Party
- Nathan Gill †
- James Freeman Wells
- Gethin James
- Julie Anne Price
- UK Independence Party
- Kris Hicks
- Keith Edwards
- Tom Harrison
- Robert McNeil Wilson
|
West Midlands: 7 seats |
- Green Party
- Ellie Chowns
- Diana Toynbee
- Paul Woodhead
- Julian Dean
- Louis Stephen
- Helen Heathfield
- Kefentse Dennis
- Liberal Democrats
- Phil Bennion
- Ade Adeyemo
- Jeanie Falconer
- Jenny Wilkinson
- Jennifer Gray
- Beverley Nielsen
- Lee Dargue
- Independent Group
- Stephen Dorrell
- Charlotte Gath
- Peter John Wilding
- Amrik Singh Kandola
- Joanna Mary McKenna
- Victor Emmanuel Odusanya
- Lucinda Marie Empson
- Labour Party
- Neena Gill †
- Siôn Simon †
- Julia Buckley
- Ansar Ali Khan
- Zarah Sultana
- Samuel Hennessy
- Liz Clements
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Anthea McIntyre
- Daniel Dalton
- Suzanne Webb
- Meirion Jenkins
- Alexander Phillips
- Mary Frances Noone
- Ahmed Ejaz
- Brexit Party
- Rupert Lowe
- Martin Daubney
- Andrew Robert Kerr
- Vishal Dilip Khatri
- Nikki Page
- Laura Mann Kevehazi
- Katharine Mary Harborne
- UK Independence Party
- Ernest Warrender (Valentine)
- Paul Williams
- Graham Eardley
- Paul Allen
- Nigel Ely
- Joe Smyth
- Derek Bennett
|
Yorkshire & the Humber: 6 seats |
- Green Party
- Magid Magid
- Alison Clare Teal
- Andrew Cooper
- Louise Houghton
- Lars Kramm
- Ann Forsaith
- Liberal Democrats
- Shaffaq Mohammed
- Rosina Robson
- James Blanchard
- Sophie Thornton
- James Baker
- Ruth Coleman-Taylor
- Independent Group
- Diana Wallis
- Juliet Lodge
- Sophia Bow
- Joshua Paul Malkin
- Rosanne Clare McMullen
- Steve Wilson
- Yorkshire Party
- Chris Whitwood
- Mike Jordan
- Jack Carrington
- Laura Marie Walker
- Bob Buxton
- Dan Cochran
- English Democrats
- David Allen
- Tony Stewart Allen
- Joanne Allen
- Fiona Allen
- Labour Party
- Richard Corbett †
- Eloise Todd
- Mohammed Jawed Khan
- Jayne Allport
- Martin Mayer
- Alison Hume
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- John Procter
- Amjad Bashir
- Michael Naughton
- Andrew Lee
- Matthew Graham Freckleton
- Susan Pascoe
- Brexit Party
- John Longworth
- Lucy Elizabeth Harris
- Jake Pugh
- James Rupert Heartfield
- Andrew Allison
- Christopher Barker
- UK Independence Party
- Mike Hookem †
- Gary Shores
- John Hancock
- David Dews
- Graham Waddicar
- 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.
- DUP [1]
- Diane Dodds, Northern Ireland Non-Inscrit
- Liberal Democrats [1]
- Catherine Bearder, South East England
- Plaid Cymru [1]
- Jill Evans, Wales
- Sinn Fein [1]
- Martina Anderson, Northern Ireland
- Social Democrats [1]
- Patrick O'Flynn East of England
- Ulster-Unionist [1]
- James Nicholson, Northern Ireland
- Independent Group [2]
- Richard Ashworth
- Julie Girling
- Scottish National Party [2]
- Ian Hudghton, Scotland
- Alyn Smith, Scotland
- Green Party [3]
- Jean Lambert, London
- Molly Scott Cato, South West England
- Keith Taylor, South East England
- UKIP [5]
- John Stuart Agnew, East of England
- Gerard Batten, London
- Jane Collins, Yorkshire & Humber
- Raymond Finch, South East England
- Mike Hookem, Yorkshire & Humber Non-Inscrit
UKIP Independent / Unaffiliated [7]
- Jonathan Arnott, North East England,
- Janice Atkinson, South East England
- Louise Bours, North West England
- James Carver, West Midlands
- William Dartmouth, South West England
- Diane James, South East England
- Steven Woolfe, North West England Non-Inscrit
- Brexit Party [10]
- Timür Aker, East of England
- Jonathan Bullock, East Midlands
- David Coburn, Scotland
- William Etheridge, West Midlands
- Nigel Farage, South East England
- Nathan Gill, Wales
- Paul Nuttall, North West England
- Margot Parker, East Midlands
- Julia Reid, South West England
- Jill Seymour, West Midlands
- Conservatives [18]
- David Campbell Bannerman, East of England
- Amjad Bashir, Yorkshire & Humber
- Daniel Dalton, West Midlands
- Nirj Deva, South East England
- John Flack, East of England
- Jacqueline Foster, North West England
- Ashley Fox, South West England & Gib.
- Daniel Hannan, South East England
- Syed Kamall London
- Sajjad Karim, North West England
- Rupert Matthews, East Midlands
- Emma McClarkin, East Midlands
- Anthea McIntyre, West Midlands
- Nosheena Mobarik, Scotland
- John Procter, Yorkshire & Humber
- Kay Swinburne, Wales
- Charles Tannock, London
- Geoffrey Van Orden, East of England
- Labour [19]
- Lucy Anderson, London
- Paul Brannen, North East England
- Richard Corbett, Yorkshire & Humber
- Seb Dance, London
- Neena Gill, West Midlands
- Theresa Griffin, North West England
- Mary Honeyball, London
- John Howarth, South East England
- Wajid Khan, North West England
- Judith Kirton-Darling, North East England
- David Martin, Scotland
- Alexandra Mayer, East of England
- Linda McAvan, Yorkshire & Humber
- Clare Moody South West England & Gib.
- Claude Moraes, London
- Rory Palmer, East Midlands
- Siôn Simon, West Midlands
- Derek Vaughan, Wales
- Julie Ward, North West England
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 Parliament
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.
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.
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European People's Party group
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.
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Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
European Conservatives and Reformists
ECR is a Eurosceptic and anti-federalist group, which focuses on reforming the EU to become "EuroRealist".
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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 Europe, a political "sub-party".
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European Conservatives and Reformists
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
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.
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European United Left–Nordic Green Left
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.
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Greens–European Free Alliance
Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy
Europe of Nations and Freedom
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.
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