North East England was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 3 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation, until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Boundaries The constituency corresponded to the North East England region of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and parts of North Yorkshire.
History The constituency was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Durham, Northumbria, Tyne and Wear, and parts of Cleveland and Richmond.
MEPs for former North East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999 Election 1979 – 1984 1984 – 1989 1989 – 1994 1994 – 1999 Cleveland (1979 – 1984)Cleveland and Yorkshire North (1984 – 1994)Cleveland and Richmond (1994 – 1999) Peter VanneckConservative David BoweLabour Durham Roland BoyesLabour Stephen HughesLabour Northumbria Gordon AdamLabour Tyne South and Wear (1979 – 1984)Tyne and Wear (1984 – 1999) Joyce QuinLabour Alan DonnellyLabour
Returned members MEPs for North East England, 1999 onwards Election MEPParty Martin CallananConservative Jonathan ArnottUKIP (2014–18) Independent (2018 - 2019)Brexit Party (2019) Brian MonteithBrexit Party MEPParty Alan DonnellyLabouruntil December 1999 Gordon AdamLabourfrom December 1999 Fiona HallLiberal Democrat Paul BrannenLabour John TennantBrexit Party MEPParty Stephen HughesLabour Judith Kirton-DarlingLabour MEPParty Mo O'TooleLabour Seat abolished
Election results
Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won and the order in which candidates won their seats.
2019
2014
2009
2004
1999
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