London (European Parliament constituency)

London was a constituency of the European Parliament from 1999 until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.

London
European Parliament constituency
Location among the 2014 constituencies
Shown in the United Kingdom
Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1999
Dissolved	31 January 2020
MEPs	10 (1999–2004) 9 (2004–2009) 8 (2009–2020)
Sources
[1][2][3]

Between 2009 and 2020, it returned eight MEPs, using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.^[3]

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[4]
Election		1979 – 1984		1984 – 1989		1989 – 1994		1994 – 1999
London South (until 1984) London South and Surrey East (from 1984)		James Moorhouse Conservative, Liberal Democrats (from 1998)
London South West		Shelagh Roberts Conservative				Anita Pollack Labour
London North West		Lord Bethell Conservative						Robert Evans Labour
London South East		Brandon Rhys-Williams Conservative		Peter Price Conservative				Shaun Spiers Labour
London North		John Leslie Marshall Conservative				Pauline Green Labour/Co-operative
London Central		David Nicolson Conservative		Stan Newens Labour/Co-operative
London West		Brian Hord Conservative		Michael Elliott Labour
London East		Alan Tyrrell Conservative		Carole Tongue Labour
London South Inner		Richard Balfe Labour
London North East		Alfred Lomas Labour

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).^[4]

MEPs for London, 1999 onwards
Election		1999 (5th parliament)				2004 (6th parliament)				2009 (7th parliament)		2014 (8th parliament)		2019 (9th parliament)
MEP Party		Jean Lambert Green												Scott Ainslie Green
MEP Party		Lord Bethell Conservative				Gerard Batten UKIP								Ben Habib Brexit Party
MEP Party		Theresa Villiers[5] Conservative				Syed Kamall[6] Conservative								Lance Forman Brexit Party (May–December 2019) Independent (December 2019 to 2020), Conservative Party (2020 to present)
MEP Party		Charles Tannock Conservative												Irina von Wiese Liberal Democrat
MEP Party		John Bowis Conservative								Marina Yannakoudakis Conservative		Lucy Anderson Labour		Dinesh Dhamija Liberal Democrat
MEP Party		Pauline Green[7] Labour		Mary Honeyball Labour								Luisa Porritt Liberal Democrat
MEP Party		Claude Moraes Labour
MEP Party		Sarah Ludford Liberal Democrat										Seb Dance Labour
MEP Party		Robert Evans Labour							Seat abolished
MEP Party		Richard Balfe Labour (1999–2002) Conservative (2002–04)			Seat abolished

Key to political groups of the European Parliament (UK)[8] v t e
Party				Faction in European Parliament
	Brexit Party	29			Non-Inscrits	57
	DUP	1
	Liberal Democrats	16	17		Renew Europe	108
	Alliance	1
	Green	7	11		Greens–European Free Alliance	75
	SNP	3
	Plaid Cymru	1
	Labour	10			Socialists and Democrats	154
	Conservative	4			European Conservatives and Reformists Group	62
	Sinn Féin	1			European United Left–Nordic Green Left	41
Total		73		Total		750

Returned Members by seat

Seats allocated using d'Hondt method, in order. Transfers within parties between elections omitted for simplicity.

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Election	1st MEP		2nd MEP		3rd MEP		4th MEP		5th MEP		6th MEP		7th MEP		8th MEP		9th MEP		10th MEP
1999		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

2019 results

2019 European election: London[14]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Liberal Democrats	Irina von Wiese (1) Dinesh Dhamija (4) Luisa Porritt (7) Jonathan Fryer, Hussain Khan, Helen Cross, Graham Colley, Rabina Khan	608,725 (202,908.33)	27.2	+20.5
	Labour	Claude Moraes (2) Seb Dance (6) Katy Clark, Laura Parker, Murad Qureshi, Taranjit Kaur Chana, James Beckles, Sanchia Alasia	536,810 (268,405)	23.9	−12.8
	Brexit Party	Ben Habib (3) Lance Forman (8) Graham Shore, Alka Cuthbert, Jimi Ogunnusi, Simon Marcus, Mehrtash A'zami, Aileen Quinton	400,257 (200,128.5)	17.9	New
	Green	Scott Ainslie (5) Gulnar Hasnain, Shahrar Ali, Rachel Collinson, Eleanor Margolies, Remco van der Stoep, Kirsten De Keyser, Peter Underwood	278,957	12.4	+3.5
	Conservative	Syed Kamall, Charles Tannock, Joy Morrissey, Tim Barnes, Scott Pattenden, Attic Rahman, Kirsty Finlayson, Luke Parker	177,964	7.9	−14.6
	Change UK	Gavin Esler, Jacek Rostowski, Carole Tongue, Annabel Mullin, Karen Newman, Nora Mulready, Jessica Simor, Haseeb Ur-Rehman	117,635	5.2	New
	UKIP	Gerard Batten, Richard Braine, Peter Muswell, Freddy Vachha, Robert Stephenson, Peter McIlvenna, John Poynton, Ronie Johnson	46,497	2.1	−14.8
	Animal Welfare	Vanessa Hudson, Jane Smith, Sam Morland, Ranjan Joshi, Mina Da Rui, Jonathan Homan, Simon Gouldman	25,232	1.1	+0.1
	Women's Equality	Catherine Mayer, Bea Gare, Nanci Hogan, Aliyah Dunbar-Hussain, Hannah Barham-Brown, Alison Marshall, Olivia Vincenti, Leyla Mohan	23,766	1.1	New
	UKEU	Pierre Kirk, Richard Stevens, Saleyha Ahsan, Anna Novikova, Angela Antetomaso, Richard Boardman	18,806	0.8	New
	Independent	Claudia Mcdowell	1,036	0.0	New
	Independent	Daze Aghaji	1,018	0.0	New
	Independent	Roger Hallam	924	0.0	New
	Independent	Kofi Klu	869	0.0	New
	Independent	Andrea Venzon	731	0.0	New
	Independent	Mike Shad	707	0.0	New
	Independent	Zoe Lafferty	436	0.0	New
	Independent	Andrew Medhurst	430	0.0	New
	Independent	Alan Kirkby	401	0.0	New
	Independent	Ian Sowden	254	0.0	New
	Independent	Henry Muss	226	0.0	New
Turnout			2,241,681	41.3

2014

2014 results

The 2014 results were delayed by Tower Hamlets, where there were recounts needed for six local election wards.^[15][16]

2014 European election: London
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Labour	Claude Moraes (1) Mary Honeyball (3) Lucy Anderson (5) Seb Dance (7) Ivana Bartoletti, Kamaljeet Jandu, Sanchia Alasia, Andrea Biondi	806,959 (201,739.75)	36.67	+15.4
	Conservative	Syed Kamall (2) Charles Tannock (6) Marina Yannakoudakis, Caroline Attfield, Lynne Hack, Sheila Lawlor, Glyn Chambers, Annesley Abercorn	495,639 (247,819.5)	22.52	−4.8
	UKIP	Gerard Batten (4) Paul Oakley, Elizabeth Jones, Lawrence Webb, Alastair McFarlane, Andrew McNeilis, Anthony Brown, Peter Whittle	371,133	16.87	+6.1
	Green	Jean Lambert (8) Caroline Allen, Haroon Saad, Shahrar Ali, Danny Bates, Tracey Hague, Violeta Vajda, Amelia Womack	196,419	8.93	−2.0
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Ludford, Jonathan Fryer, Richard Davis, Anuja Prashar, Rosina Robson, Turhan Ozen, Simon James, Matt McLaren	148,013	6.73	−7.0
	4 Freedoms Party	Dirk Hazell, NoelleAnne O'Sullivan, Geoff Gibas, Aline Doussin, Andrew Bell, Deborah Phillips, Royston Flude, Brendan Donnelly	28,014	1.27	New
	An Independence from Europe	Patrick Burns, Marlene Daniel, Gareth Griffiths, Munpreet Bhathal, Sharon Greenfield, Eddie Yeoman, Fred Atkins, Jean Atkins	26,675	1.21	New
	CPA	Sid Cordle, Yemi Awolola, Ashley Dickenson, Sharmilla Swarma, Laurence Williams, Ethel Odiete, Kevin Nicholls, Steven Hammond	23,702	1.08	−1.9
	NHA	Louise Irvine, Chidi Ejimofo, Marcus Chown, Kathryn Anderson, Rufus Hound, Jessica Ormerod, Andrew Sharp, Alex Ashman	23,253	1.06	New
	Animal Welfare	Vanessa Hudson, Alexander Bourke, Kirsteen Williamson-Guinn, Andrew Knight, Dimple Patel, Meg Mathews, Guy Dessoy, Ranjan Joshi	21,092	0.96	New
	BNP	Stephen Squire, Donna Treanor, Paul Sturdy, John Clarke, David Furness, Cliff le May, Ray Underwood, Kevin Lazell	19,246	0.87	−4.1
	Europeans Party	Tommy Tomescu, Andrzej Rygielski, Vanessa Del Carmen Guerrero Rodriguez, Robin Ashenden, Emil Rusanov, Georgios Papagrigorakis	10,712	0.5	New
	English Democrat	Jenny Knight, Matthew Roberts, Maggi Young, Graham Clipperton, Gary Butler, Nick Capp, Louise Dutton, Natalie Smith	10,142	0.5	−0.9
	Communities United	Kamran Malik, Humera Kamran, Cydatty Bogie, Mary Coleman Daniels, Idris Aden Ali, Reuben Edokpayi, Sunita Kaur Singh, Joanne Flanders	6,951	0.3	New
	National Liberal	Graham Williamson, Jagdeesh Singh, Sockalingam Yogalingam, Doris Jones, Upkar Singh Rai, Yuseef Anwar, Araz Yurdseven, Bernard Dube	6,736	0.3	New
	NO2EU	Edward Dempsey, Alexander Gordon, April Ashley, Annie Ngemi, Mary Davis, Paula Mitchell, Natasha Horau, Michael Clarty	3,804	0.2	New
	Harmony Party	David Vincent	1,985	0.1	−0.84
Turnout			2,200,475

2009

2009 results

European Election 2009: London[17][18]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Conservative	Charles Tannock (1) Syed Kamall (4) Marina Yannakoudakis (8) Jean-Paul Floru, Warwick Lightfoot, Bob Seeley, Graham Postles, Alison Sproule	479,037 (159,679)	27.4	+0.6
	Labour	Claude Moraes (2) Mary Honeyball (7) Anne Fairweather, Kevin McGrath, Emma Jones, Raj Jethwa, Nilgun Canver	372,590 (186,295)	21.3	−3.5
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Ludford (3) ' Jonathan Fryer, Dinti Batstone, Christopher Le Breton, John Pindar, Simon James, Caroline Persson, Ben Jones	240,156	13.7	−1.6
	Green	Jean Lambert (5) Ute Michel, Shahrar Ali, Joseph Healy, Miranda Dunn, Shasha Khan, George Graham, Priya Shah	190,589	10.9	+2.5
	UKIP	Gerard Batten (6) Ralph Atkinson, Michael Zuckerman, Tim Worstall, Sunita Webb, Victor Webb, Strachan McDonald, Geoff Howard, Marcus Watney	188,440	10.8	−1.5
	BNP	Bob Bailey, Michael Barnbrook, Dennis Pearce, Julian Leppert, Roberta Woods, Chris Forster, John Clarke, John Evans	86,420	4.9	+0.9
	Christian	George Hargreaves, Susan May, Paula Warren, Stephen Hammond, Mary Boyle, Suzanne Fernandez, Peter Ljubisic, David Williams	51,336	2.9	New
	Independent	Jan Jananayagam[19]	50,014	2.9	New
	English Democrat	Roger Cooper, Graham Dare, Satvinder Singh Chagger, Graham Wood, Arvind Tailor, Elaine Cheeseman, David Stevens, Janus Polenceus	24,477	1.4	+0.5
	NO2EU	Bob Crow, John Hendry, Mary Davis, Kevin Nolan, Syed Islam, Onay Kasab, John Rowe, Nick Wrack	17,758	1.0	New
	Socialist Labour	Arthur Scargill, Amanda Rose, Colin Muir, Linda Muir, Ronald Sinclair, Margaret Sharkey, Alan Jones, Carole Whatham	15,306	0.9	New
	Libertas	Max Burt, Victoria Wood, Susannah Prins, Peter Lloyd, Herbert Crossman, Dominique Field	8,444	0.4	New
	Jury Team	Reza Tabrisi, Evan Milner, Lucy O'Sullivan-McCormick, Afshin Payravi, Thomas Mulcahy, Sherif Malak, David Littlejohn, Gregory Williams	7,284	0.4	New
	Independent	Steven Cheung	4,918	0.3	New
	Socialist (GB)	Danny Lambert, Tristan Miller, Janet Carter, Bill Martin, Adam Buick, Simon Wigley, Frederick Allen, Patricia Deutz	4,050	0.2	New
	Yes2Europe	Brendan Donnelly	3,384	0.2	New
	Independent	Sohale Rahman[20]	3,248	0.2	New
	Independent	Gene Alcantara[21]	1,972	0.1	New
	Independent	Haroon Saad	1,603	0.1	New
Turnout			1,751,026	33.3	−4.0

2004

2004 results

European Election 2004: London[22]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Conservative	Theresa Villiers (1) John Bowis (4) Charles Tannock (7) Syed Kamall, Ian Twinn, Roseanne Serrelli, Heather Leigh Mendelsohn, Ashok Kumaar	504,941 (168,313.67)	26.8	−5.9
	Labour	Claude Moraes (2) Mary Honeyball (5) Robert Evans (9) Anita Pollack, Hugh Malyan, Steph Elsy, Munir Malik, Jane Briginshaw, Jo Ejiofor	466,584 (155,528)	24.8	−10.2
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Ludford (3) Jonathan Fryer, John Stevens, Dinti Wakefield, Ian McDonald, Kishwer Falkner, Nigel Bakhai, Keith Moffitt, Sandra Lawman	288,790	15.3	+3.6
	UKIP	Gerard Batten (6) Damian Hockney, Christopher Pratt, John De Roeck, Anthony Scholefield, Janice Cronin, Kathleen Garner, Harun Khan, Ralph Atkinson	232,633	12.3	+6.9
	Green	Jean Lambert (8) Paul Ingram, Judy Maciejowska, Timothy Turner, Christopher Cotton, Douglas Earl, Shahrar Ali, Peter Budge, Joseph Healy	158,986	8.4	+0.7
	Respect	George Galloway, Unjum Mirza, Elaine Graham-Leigh, Paul Foot, Rita Carter, John Mulrenan, Victoria Brittain, Gary McFarlane, Ken Loach	91,175	4.8	New
	BNP	Christopher Roberts, Tess Culnane, Lee Barnes, James Seadon, John Bowles, Jay Lee, John Evans, Alan Bailey, Lawrence Rustem	76,152	4.0	+2.4
	CPA	Michael Elmer, Genevieve Hibbs, Peter Flower, Keith McLeod, Debra Smith-Gorick, Douglas Gibbons, Roger Glencross, Glenton Downs	45,038	2.4	New
	English Democrat	Robin Tilbrook, Timothy Bragg, Terence Brown, Robert Howells, Alan Sutton, Robert Poulton	15,945	0.9	New
	People's Party for Better Government	Christopher Prior	5,205	0.3	New
Turnout			1,885,449	37.3	+14.2

1999

1999 results

European Election 1999: London[23]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Labour	Pauline Green (1) Claude Moraes (3) Robert Evans (5) Richard Balfe (8) Carole Tongue, Shaun Spiers, Mary Honeyball, Munir Malik, Pam Wharfe, Michael Elliott	399,466 (99,866.5)	35.0
	Conservative	Theresa Villiers (2) Charles Tannock (4) Lord Bethell (7) John Bowis (9) Ian Twinn, Andrew Popat,[24] Andrew Boff, Bene't Steinberg, John Flack, Angela Harvey	372,989 (93,247.25)	32.7
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Ludford (6) Hugh Dykes, Susan Kramer, Jonathan Fryer, Hilary Leighter, Nick Pinfield, Sue Doughty, Andrew Wiseman, Nikki Thomson, Peter Facey	133,058	11.7
	Green	Jean Lambert (10) Niki Kortvelyessy, Jenny Jones, Shane Collins, John William Bradley, Vicky Olliver, Hils Jago, Jayne Forbes, Dean Walton, Michael Stimson	87,545	7.7
	UKIP	Craig Mackinlay, Damian Hockney, Josie O'Ware, Gerald Roberts, Chris Pratt, James Carver, Michael Harvey, Tony Scholefield, John de Roeck, Mark Lester	61,741	5.4
	Socialist Labour	Arthur Scargill, Novjot Brar, Hardy Singh Dhillon, Amanda Rose, John Hendy, Harpal Brar, Eloisa Rule, Robert Siggins, John Hayball, Joe Marino	19,632	1.7
	BNP	John Tyndall, Kenneth Francis, Paul Borg, Michael Davidson, Valerie Tyndall, Jean Griffin, Ruth Tagg, Michael Carey, Christopher Jury, Mark Tointan	17,960	1.6
	Liberal	Maria Williamson, Mark Austin, Robin Almond, Rif Winfield, Anne Bradshaw, Roger Jenking, Gerald Williams, Donald Bruce, Peter White, Jennifer Roach	16,951	1.5
	Pro-Euro Conservative	Marcelle d'Argy Smith, Harriet Crawley, Catherine Moorhouse, Richard Wassell, Sir Anthony Meyer, Martin Sexton, Mary-Anne Widdicombe, Stephen Haseler, Joanne Ezekiel, Daniel Trup	16,383	1.4
	Architect, Human Rights Peace in Europe	George Hajifanis	4,851	0.4
	Anti-Value added tax	Erol Basarik	2,596	0.2
	Humanist	Jon Swinden, Judith Earley, Tony Robinson, Robert Harris, Simon Peters, Simon Domingo, Joanna Spearman, Anna Louise Swinden, Mammo Muchie, Jennifer Wright	2,586	0.2
	The Hemp Coalition	Gordon Webster	2,358	0.2
	Natural Law	Geoffrey Clements, Richard Johnson, Anthony Hardy, Susan Hamza, Gerard Valente, Judith Thomas, Alexander Hankey, Philomena Quick, Jonathan Hinde, Charles Hueston	2,263	0.2
	Weekly Worker	Anne Murphy, Stanley Kelsey, Marcus Larsen, Peter Mansen, Phillip Kent, Jim Gilbert, Andrew Hanna	846	0.1
Turnout			1,141,225	23.1