London was a constituency of the European Parliament from 1999 until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Between 2009 and 2020, it returned eight MEPs, using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
Boundaries The constituency corresponded to the Greater London region of England, in the south east of the United Kingdom.
History
Prior to 1999, London was represented by a number of single-member constituencies. These were London Central, London East, London North, London North East, London North West, London South East, London South Inner, London South West, London West, and parts of London South and Surrey East.
The European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 reduced this to a single constituency returning a number of MEPs. MEPs for former London constituencies, 1979 – 1999 Election 1979 – 1984 1984 – 1989 1989 – 1994 1994 – 1999 London South (until 1984)London South and Surrey East (from 1984) James MoorhouseConservative, Liberal Democrats (from 1998) London South West Shelagh RobertsConservative Anita PollackLabour London North West Lord BethellConservative Labour London South East Brandon Rhys-WilliamsConservative Peter PriceConservative Shaun SpiersLabour London North John Leslie MarshallConservative Pauline GreenLabour/Co-operative London Central David NicolsonConservative Stan NewensLabour/Co-operative London West Brian HordConservative Michael ElliottLabour London East Alan TyrrellConservative Carole TongueLabour London Richard BalfeLabour London North East Alfred LomasLabour
Returned members Below are all the members since the creation of the London constituency. The number of seats allocated to London had been reduced from 10 to 8 between 1999 and 2009 due to EU enlargement. Members elected in 1999 who previously represented a London constituency were Pauline Green (London North, elected 1989) and Robert Evans (London North West, elected 1994). MEPs for London, 1999 onwardsElection MEPParty Jean LambertGreen Scott AinslieGreen MEPParty Lord BethellConservative Gerard BattenUKIP Ben HabibBrexit Party MEPParty Theresa VilliersElected to Chipping Barnet in the 2005 UK general election.Conservative Syed KamallAppointed in May 2005 to replace Theresa Villiers.Conservative Lance FormanBrexit Party (May–December 2019)Independent (December 2019 to 2020), Conservative Party (2020 to present) MEPParty Charles TannockConservative Irina von WieseLiberal Democrat MEPParty John BowisConservative Conservative Lucy AndersonLabour Dinesh DhamijaLiberal Democrat MEPParty Pauline GreenResigned in December 1999.Labour Mary HoneyballLabour Luisa PorrittLiberal Democrat MEPParty Claude MoraesLabour MEPParty Sarah LudfordLiberal Democrat Seb DanceLabour MEPParty Robert EvansLabour Seat abolished MEPParty Richard BalfeLabour (1999–2002) Seat abolished
Returned Members by seat
Seats allocated using d'Hondt method, in order. Transfers within parties between elections omitted for simplicity.
The 2004 London Elections 1999 Election Candidates
Election1st MEP2nd MEP3rd MEP4th MEP5th MEP6th MEP7th MEP8th MEP9th MEP10th MEP1999 Labour(Pauline Green) Con(Theresa Villiers) Labour(Claude Moraes) Con(Charles Tannock) Labour(Robert Evans) LD(Baroness Sarah Ludford) Con(Nicholas Bethell) Labour(Richard Balfe) Con(John Bowis) Green(Jean Lambert)2004 Con(Theresa Villiers) Labour(Claude Moraes) LD(Baroness Sarah Ludford) Con(John Bowis) Labour(Mary Honeyball) UKIP(Gerard Batten) Con(Charles Tannock) Green(Jean Lambert) Labour(Robert Evans)2009 Con(Charles Tannock) Labour(Claude Moraes) LD(Baroness Sarah Ludford) Con(Syed Kamall) Green(Jean Lambert) UKIP(Gerard Batten) Labour(Mary Honeyball) Con(Marina Yannakoudakis)2014 Labour(Claude Moraes) Con(Syed Kamall) Labour(Mary Honeyball) UKIP(Gerard Batten) Labour(Lucy Anderson) Con(Charles Tannock) Labour(Seb Dance) Green(Jean Lambert)2019 LD(Irina von Wiese) Labour(Claude Moraes) Brexit(Benyamin Habib) LD(Dinesh Dhamija) Green(Scott Ainslie) Labour(Seb Dance) LD(Luisa Manon Porritt) Brexit(Lance Forman)
Election results Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won and order of MEPs elected.
2019
2014
The 2014 results were delayed by Tower Hamlets, where there were recounts needed for six local election wards.
2009
2004
1999
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