South East England was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 10 Members of the European Parliament (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 South East England, in the south east of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex.
History It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East, East Sussex and Kent South, Hampshire North and Oxford, Itchen, Test and Avon, Kent East, Kent West, South Downs West, Surrey, Sussex South and Crawley, Thames Valley, Wight and Hampshire South, and parts of Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes, Cotswolds, and London South and Surrey East.
MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979–1999 Election 1979–1984 1984–1989 1989–1994 1994–1999 Sussex East (1979–1994)East Sussex and Kent South (1994–1999) Jack Stewart-ClarkConservative Hampshire West (1979–1984)Hampshire Central (1984–1994)Itchen, Test and Avon (1994–1999) Basil de FerrantiConservativeDied on 24 September 1988 Edward Kellett-BowmanConservativeWon a by election on 15 December 1988 Kent East Christopher JacksonConservative Mark WattsLabour Kent West Ben PattersonConservative Peter SkinnerLabour Surrey (1979–1984, 1994–1999)Surrey West (1984–1994) Charles WellesleyConservative Tom SpencerConservative Sussex West (1979–1994)Sussex South and Crawley (1994–1999) Madron SeligmanConservative Brendan DonnellyConservative (1994–1999)Joined the Pro-Euro Conservatives in March 1999Pro-Euro Conservative (1999) Thames Valley Diana EllesConservative John StevensConservative (1989–1999)Pro-Euro Conservative (1999) Wight and Hampshire East (1979–1994)Wight and Hampshire South (1994–1999) Stanley JohnsonConservative Richard SimmondsConservative Roy PerryConservative Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire (1984–1994)Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East (1994–1999) Seat not established James EllesConservative Hampshire North and Oxford Seat not established Graham MatherConservative South Downs West Seat not established James ProvanConservative
Returned members MEPs for South East England, 1999 onwards Election MEPParty Nigel FarageUKIP (1999–2018) Independent (2018–2019)Brexit Party (2019–2020) MEPParty Roy PerryConservative Ashley MoteUKIP (2004) Independent (2004–2009) Marta Andreasen UKIP (2009–2013) Conservative (2013–2014) Ray FinchUKIP (2014–2019)Brexit Party (2019) Robert RowlandBrexit Party MEPParty James EllesConservative Diane JamesUKIP (2014–2016) Independent (2016–2019)Brexit Party (2019) Alexandra PhillipsBrexit Party MEPParty Nirj DevaConservative Belinda de LucyBrexit Party MEPParty Daniel HannanConservative MEPParty James ProvanConservative Richard AshworthConservative (2004–2017) Independent (2017–2019)Change UK (2019) Judith BuntingLiberal Democrats MEPParty Chris HuhneChris Huhne stood down when he was elected to the Eastleigh seat in the House of Commons in the 5 May 2005 UK general election. Sharon Bowles, as second on the Liberal Democrat list, took over from that day.Liberal Democrats Sharon BowlesLiberal Democrats Janice AtkinsonUKIP (2014–2015) Independent (2015–2019) Antony HookLiberal Democrats MEPParty Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of WinterbourneLiberal Democrats Catherine BearderLiberal Democrats MEPParty Caroline LucasCaroline Lucas won the Brighton Pavilion seat in the House of Commons in the 6 May 2010 UK general election so stood down as an MEP. She was succeeded by Keith Taylor, second on the Green's 2009 party list.Green Keith TaylorGreen Alexandra PhillipsGreen MEPParty Peter SkinnerLabour Anneliese Dodds (2014–2017)Anneliese Dodds stood down when she was elected to the Oxford East seat in the House of Commons in the 8 June 2017 UK general election. John Howarth, as second on the Labour list, took over from 30 June 2017.Labour John Howarth (2017–2020)Labour MEPParty Mark WattsLabour Seat abolished
Election results Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the order candidates were elected and the number of votes per seat won in their respective columns.
2019
2014
2009
2004
1999
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