The 2019 European Parliament election for the election of the delegation from the United Kingdom was held on 23 May 2019 . These were the last elections to the European Parliament to be held before Brexit .
Only constituencies in Great Britain used party-list proportional representation , as in Northern Ireland the single transferable vote system is used.
12 European Parliament constituencies were used, each electing a different number of MEPs based on population:
The Brexit Party was newly founded for the 2019 European Parliament election .[ 1] On 8 February 2019, party leader Nigel Farage stated he would stand as a candidate for the party in any potential future European Parliament elections contested in the United Kingdom.[ 2] [ 3] MEPs Steven Woolfe and Nathan Gill , also formerly of UKIP, stated that they would also stand for the party.[ 4] [ 5]
The Brexit Party had a list of 7 candidates for the 7 seats available in the East of England .[ 6] The top three were elected.
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Candidate
Occupation
Elected
1
Richard Tice
Businessman and Brexit Party Party Chair[ 7]
Y
2
Michael Heaver
Former chair of UKIP youth wing and press aide[ 8]
Y
3
June Mummery
Businesswoman in the fishing industry[ 9]
Y
4
Paul Hearn
N
5
Priscilla Huby
N
6
Sean Lever
N
7
Edmund Fordham
N
The Brexit Party had a list of 5 candidates for the 5 seats available in the East Midlands . The top three were elected.[ 10]
The Brexit Party had a list of 10 candidates for the 10 seats available in the South East of England .[ 6] The top four were elected.
The party announced on 23 April that it would stand a full slate of candidates in Great Britain for the European Parliament elections , including Ashworth, writer Rachel Johnson (sister of Conservative MPs Jo and Boris Johnson ); former BBC journalist Gavin Esler ;[ 25] former Conservative MPs Stephen Dorrell and Neil Carmichael ; former Labour MEP Carole Tongue ; former Labour MPs Roger Casale and Jon Owen Jones ; former Liberal Democrat MEP Diana Wallis ;[ 26] and the former deputy Prime Minister of Poland Jacek Rostowski .[ 27] None of the Change UK candidates won any seats.
Ali Sadjady Naiery, a mixed martial arts fighter and former Conservative Party candidate for Ealing Borough Council , was originally placed sixth on Change UK's London list, but withdrew and was replaced after he was found to have made a tweet saying that Romanian pickpockets on the London Underground made him want Brexit.[ 28] [ 29] [ 30]
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Candidate[ 33]
Occupation
Elected
1
David Macdonald
Independent councillor on East Renfrewshire Council [ 34]
N
2
Kate Forman
N
3
Peter Griffiths
N
4
Heather Astbury
N
5
Colin McFadyen
N
6
Cathy Edgeworth
N
West Midlands (7)
Wales (4)
Yorkshire and the Humber [ edit ]
The English Democrats fielded candidates in every constituency in England.
Yorkshire and the Humber [ edit ]
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Candidate[ 35]
Occupation
Elected
1
David Allen
N
2
Tony Allen
N
3
Joanne Allen
N
4
Fiona Allen
N
Green Party of England and Wales [ edit ]
The Green Party of England and Wales fielded candidates in every constituency in England and Wales.[ 50]
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Candidate
Notes
Elected
1
Kat Boettge
Green Party candidate for Broxtowe Borough Council in 2019 .
N
2
Gerhard Lohmann-Bond
N
3
Liam McClelland
N
4
Daniel Wimberley
N
5
Simon Tooke
N
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Candidate
Notes
Elected
1
Anthony Slaughter
Leader of the Wales Green Party .
N
2
Ian Chandler
N
3
Ceri Davies
N
4
Duncan Rees
Co-Deputy leader of the Wales Green Party.
N
Yorkshire and the Humber [ edit ]
The Labour Party stood candidates in all constituencies in Great Britain .[ 64]
The Labour Party had a list of 10 candidates for the 10 seats available in the South East of England .
Yorkshire and the Humber [ edit ]
Scottish National Party [ edit ]
The Scottish National Party stood 6 candidates for all the seats in Scotland .[ 81]
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Candidate[ 22]
Occupation
Elected
1
Lawrence Webb
N
2
Carl Benjamin
Anti-feminist YouTuber and political commentator
N
3
Tony McIntyre
N
4
Lester Taylor
N
5
Stephen Lee
N
6
Alison Sheridan
N
Yorkshire and the Humber [ edit ]
Plaid Cymru , the party of Wales, only contested the Wales constituency .
The Yorkshire Party only stood candidates in the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency :
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Candidate[ 35]
Occupation
Elected
1
Chris Whitwood
Leader of the Yorkshire Party (2019-2020)
N
2
Mike Jordan
N
3
Jack Carrington
N
4
Laura Walker
N
5
Bob Buxton
N
6
Dan Cochran
N
Northern Ireland has a different party system to Great Britain and used the single transferable vote rather than the party list system to elect 3 MEPs.[ 85] This meant the party list included one candidate per party for the three seats available.[ 86] There were 11 candidates:
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