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European election results 2019 in FULL: Summary and breakdown for every region


The Tories tonight suffered their worst election result for almost 200 years as resigning Theresa May was annihilated in the EU elections.

With every British region declared except Scotland, Brexit civil war finally obliterated the party of government as it won less than 9% of the vote – landing in fifth place behind the Greens – and lost 15 of 18 seats.

But Labour were also knocked into third place by the Lib Dems, losing 8 of their 18 seats as Jeremy Corbyn’s party descended into infighting over its “fence-sitting” Brexit stance.

The story of the night was the polarising of British politics – with votes flooding away from both main parties to groups that are either pro- or anti-Brexit.

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party were the runaway winners, topping the poll in every single area except London, wiping out the Tories completely in some and picking up 28 seats.

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party were the runaway winners

 

With Farage using his victory speech to warn he could win a general election, anti-gay former Tory Ann Widdecombe triumphed in the South West and Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sister Annunziata was elected in the East Midlands. In both regions the Tories’ seats were completely wiped out.

But there was also a huge surge for anti-Brexit parties – with the Lib Dems, Greens and Change UK winning more than the Brexit Party and UKIP combined.

The Lib Dems had the best night in history in many areas, recovering from their low point in 2014 with an incredible 14-point surge to 21% and rocketing their seat tally from 1 to 15.

The ‘bollocks to Brexit’ party even topped the bill in London – including in Jeremy Corbyn’s back yard of Islington – while anti-Brexit nationalists Plaid Cymru beat Labour in the party’s heartland of Wales.

That prompted a furious attack on Labour’s policy from his constituency neighbour and shadow cabinet minister Emily Thornberry.

 

But Lib Dems (pictured) had a fantastic night – with hard Remain votes outstripping hard Brexit votes

 

She demanded Labour fully back a second referendum, fuming: “We were not clear on the one single thing that people wanted to hear.”

Facing MPs’ anger Jeremy Corbyn later issued a statement, but it did not commit to a second referendum – only to either that, or a general election. But he did promise “conversations across the party divide” to find a way forward.

Elsewhere the Greens enjoyed a surge that was reflected by eco-parties across the continent, including in France, Germany and Ireland.

They more than doubled their seat tally to 7, including a win for Magid Magid, a former refugee who became Lord Mayor of Sheffield aged 29 and “banned” Donald Trump from the city.

Far-right extremist Tommy Robinson failed miserably in his bid to be elected in the North West, with his 38,908 votes prompting guffaws of laughter at the count in Manchester.

UKIP leader Gerard Batten lost his seat as the party’s vote tally collapsed amid a row over a candidate who made jokes about rape. And Change UK came a miserable sixth-place, only just ahead of UKIP, not winning any seats.

Full UK national and regional results

Despite the Brexit Party’s thumping victory, anti-Brexit parties won MORE votes than pro-hard-Brexit parties in the election.

With all British regions counted except Scotland, the Lib Dems had won 20.9%, the Greens won 12.5% and Change UK won 3.6%.

That meant the three big anti-Brexit parties won 37% of the vote – compared to 35.7% for UKIP and the Brexit Party put together. UKIP won 3.5% of the vote while Nigel Farage’s outfit won 33.2%.

Summary of projected results across the EU

Above is an official projection at 2am UK time for the seat distribution across the entire European Parliament (all 28 EU countries).

It showed the Greens up significantly since 2014, on 70 seats. It also showed a rise of seats for the European United Left/Nordic Green Left.

However, French exit polls also showed Marine Le Pen’s far-right party edged into first place just ahead of centrist President Emmanuel Macron’s.

You won’t recognise these party names because they’re not parties – they are political  groupings  in the EU, which include lots of different nations’ parties.

So Labour are in the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats – predicted to be down from 191 to 147.

And Tories are in the European Conservatives and Reformists Group – predicted to be down from 70 seats to 59.

For comparison, below are the full results from the 2014 European Parliament election:

How did the vote work?

The UK elected 73 MEPs to sit in the European Parliament – 70 from Britain and three from Northern Ireland (not covered in detail in this article).

Those MEPs will only sit in the Parliament until Brexit happens, currently scheduled for October 31 at the latest.

Seats are split between 12 large regions of the UK.

In each region, votes are counted for each party and then seats are allocated to those parties along a mathematical formula called the D’Hondt System.

In each region, the party with the most votes gets the first seat.

Then that party’s total vote figure is divided by two – and the party with the most votes in the second round (after that division) gets the second seat.

The process is repeated via a formula until all seats have been dished out. As it goes on, if a party wins a second seat in its region, its vote total is then divided by three. If it wins a third seat, its vote total is then divided by four. And so on.

Parties decide which individual candidates get to scoop up their seats through a numbered “list” system.

British results: Region-by-region breakdown

Note: We have excluded votes for smaller parties to make this piece clearer.

EAST MIDLANDS: Mogg’s sister helps wipe out the Tories

NUMBER OF MEPs: 5

PREVIOUS SEATS: Con 2; Lab 1; UKIP 1; Brexit Party 1

NEW SEATS: Brexit Party 3; Lib Dems 1; Lab 1

FULL LIST OF WINNERS: Rory Palmer (Lab), Bill Newton Dunn (LD), Annunziata Rees-Mogg (Brexit), Jonathan Bullock (Brexit), Matthew Patten (Brexit)

FULL LIST OF VOTES BY PARTY:

Brexit 452,321 (38.23%)

LD 203,989 (17.24%, +11.82%)

Lab 164,682 (13.92%, -11.01%)

C 126,138 (10.66%, -15.33%)

Green 124,630 (10.53%, +4.55%)

UKIP 58,198 (4.92%, -27.98%)

Change 41,117 (3.47%)

Annunziata Rees-Mogg was standing in the East Midlands

WHAT IT MEANS:

Jacob Rees-Mogg ’s sister  Annunziata Rees-Mogg  won in the East Midlands – one of THREE new MEPs for the Brexit Party.

Nigel Farage’s outfit scooped up more than 38% of the result, wiping out the Tories’ two seats completely as the party plummeted from 26% to 11%.

Labour narrowly avoided losing their only seat, simply because the party lost by a little bit less than the Tories did, but it’s not a good result at all.

The Lib Dems however had a good night, gaining a seat they didn’t have before with the election of Bill Newton-Dunn.

EAST OF ENGLAND: Brexit Party triumphs – but Lib Dems surge

 

NUMBER OF MEPs: 7

PREVIOUS SEATS: Con 3; SDP 1; Brexit Party 1; UKIP 1; Lab 1

NEW SEATS: Brexit Party 3; Lib Dems 2; Green 1; Con 1

FULL LIST OF WINNERS: Geoffrey Van Orden (C), Barbara Gibson (LD), Lucy Nethsingha (LD), Richard Tice (Brexit), Michael Heaver (Brexit), June Mummery (Brexit), Catherine Rowett (Green)

FULL LIST OF VOTES BY PARTY:

Brexit 604,715 (37.83%)

LD 361,563 (22.62%, +15.76%)

Green 202,460 (12.67%, +4.20%)

C 163,830 (10.25%, -18.12%)

Lab 139,490 (8.73%, -8.53%)

Change 58,274 (3.65%)

UKIP 54,676 (3.42%, -31.06%)

Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice was standing in the East of England

WHAT IT MEANS:

The Brexit Party won almost 38% of the vote, seizing three MEPs and establishing its power base with the election of chairman  Richard Tice  and long-time Nigel Farage ally  Michael Heaver,  who founded the right-wing ‘Westmonster’ website.

However, in terms of percentages it wasn’t that much more shocking than 2014, when UKIP won a whopping 34% of the vote.

The Tories slipped into fourth place, reducing their three MEPs to just one and their vote share from 28% to just 10%.

The Lib Dems increased their zero seats to two and Labour lost their only seat, dropping from 17% of the vote to 9%.

LONDON: Lib Dems WIN capital in massive anti-Brexit surge

NUMBER OF MEPs: 8

PREVIOUS SEATS: Lab 4; Con 2; Green 1; UKIP 1

NEW SEATS: LD 3; Lab 2; Brexit Party 2; Green 1 

FULL LIST OF WINNERS: Claude Moraes (Lab), Seb Dance (Lab), Irina Von Wiese (LD), Dinesh Dhamija (LD), Luisa Porritt (LD), Ben Habib (Brexit), Lance Forman (Brexit), Scott Ainslie (Green)

FULL LIST OF VOTES BY PARTY:

LD 608,725 (27.17%, +20.44%)

Lab 536,810 (23.96%, -12.72%)

Brexit 400,257 (17.86%)

Green 278,957 (12.45%, +3.52%)

C 177,964 (7.94%, -14.58%)

Change 117,635 (5.25%)

UKIP 46,497 (2.08%, -14.79%)

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WHAT IT MEANS:

This result is staggeringly different to the rest of England and Wales and shows just how divorced London is from the rest of the country.

Labour lost TWO of its four seats in the capital amid a surge of votes for the anti-Brexit Lib Dems, who went from zero seats to three.

That means neither ultra-close Jeremy Corbyn ally Katy Clark (third on the list) nor Laura Parker of left-wing group Momentum won a seat.

The Lib Dems even beat Labour by a few hundred votes in Jeremy Corbyn’s borough of Islington – prompting a furious warning by Emily Thornberry that Labour must come out fully anti-Brexit.

The Tories won no seats at all, down from two in 2014. And the Brexit Party won two seats – a rise on the one won by UKIP in 2014 – including for smoked salmon tycoon Lance Forman .

Change UK’s Gavin Esler, a former BBC Newsnight presenter, failed to break through despite his race being one of the biggest hopes for the pro-EU new party.

Meanwhile UKIP’s leader Gerard Batten lost his seat amid plummeting support for his party. Votes were pretty well-spread in 2014 when Labour had 37%, Tories had 23%, UKIP won 17%, Greens won 9% and Lib Dems won 7%. 

NORTH EAST: Brexit Party surge as Labour vote almost halves

NUMBER OF MEPs: 3

PREVIOUS SEATS: Lab 2; Independent 1 (ex-UKIP)

NEW SEATS: Brexit Party 2; Lab 1 

FULL LIST OF WINNERS: Jude Kirton-Darling (Lab), Brian Monteith (Brexit), John Tennant (Brexit)

FULL LIST OF VOTES BY PARTY:

Brexit 240,056 (38.73%)

Lab 119,931 (19.35%, -17.12%)

LD 104,313 (16.83%, +10.90%)

Green 49,905 (8.05%, +2.86%)

C 42,395 (6.84%, -10.86%)

UKIP 38,269 (6.17%, -23.02%)

Change 24,968 (4.03%)

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WHAT IT MEANS:

Labour lost one of its two seats in the North East – the party’s vote share plummeted to just 19%, almost HALF the 36% it won in 2014.

Meanwhile the Brexit Party led by Nigel Farage was on almost 39%, up from UKIP’s 29% last time.

The Lib Dems ran a close third to Labour on just over 17%, their best ever result in the region after barely scraping 5% last time.

Greens were also up from just over 5% to 8%. Surviving Labour candidate Jude Kirton-Darling savaged the Brexit Party’s newly-elected Brian Monteith and attacked the party’s “bollocks” as she became a North East MEP.

She accused the newly-elected MEP of being a “hypocrite” and benefiting from the free movement he wants to remove – because he listed a French address on EU election materials.

The Tories were on 18% last time – this time they were down to just 7%.

NORTH WEST: Tommy Robinson routed with just 39,000 votes

 

NUMBER OF MEPs: 8

PREVIOUS SEATS: Lab 3; Independent 3 (all ex-UKIP); Con 2;

NEW SEATS: Brexit Party 3; Lab 2; Lib Dems 2; Green 1 

FULL LIST OF WINNERS: Theresa Griffin (Lab), Julie Ward (Lab), Chris Davies (LD), Jane Brophy (LD), Claire Fox (Brexit), Henrik Overgaard Nielsen (Brexit), David Bull (Brexit), Gina Dowding (Green)

FULL LIST OF VOTES BY PARTY:

Brexit 541,843 (31.23%)

Lab 380,193 (21.91%, -11.94%)

LD 297,507 (17.15%, +11.14%)

Green 216,581 (12.48%, +5.47%)

C 131,002 (7.55%, -12.51%)

UKIP 62,464 (3.60%, -23.86%)

Change 47,237 (2.72%)

Ind Robinson 38,908 (2.24%)

Tommy Robinson tried to blame Twitter as he won fewer than 40,000 votes

WHAT IT MEANS: Far-right extremist Tommy Robinson lost his bid to be elected in the North West region, winning just 38,908 votes. The total prompted guffaws of laughter when the result was read out in Manchester and he attempted to blame Twitter for lowering his public profile.

Other than that the pattern of the country was repeated. The Brexit Party topped the bill with three MEPs – the same number UKIP won in 2014 – including Claire Fox who defended Republican violence just days after the IRA Warrington bombing in 1993.

Labour’s vote tumbled 12 points but despite losing a seat, the party managed to stay just ahead of the Lib Dems.

Curiously the anti-Brexit Libs – who went from zero seats to two – saw their vote share increase by almost the exact percentage Labour’s fell.

Big winners too were the Greens, who picked up a new seat.

SCOTLAND: TBC

Scotland was set to be the last to declare formally, due to the Western Isles

 

ESTIMATED DECLARATION TIME: 11.30am Monday

NUMBER OF MEPs: 6

PREVIOUS SEATS: SNP 2; Lab 2; Con 1; Brexit Party 1

NEW SEATS: TBC

FULL LIST OF WINNERS: TBC

FULL LIST OF VOTES BY PARTY: TBC

WHAT IT MEANS: The last EU election was held before the extra SNP surge in the wake of the independence referendum; the Labour collapse, and the Tory boost that followed. Expect a dramatic re-shaping of the ground once the Brexit Party is thrown in as well.

COUNT DECLARED BY: Falkirk Council

SOUTH EAST: Brexit Party and Lib Dems enjoy massive surge

NUMBER OF MEPs: 10

PREVIOUS SEATS: Con 3; Brexit Party 2; Lab 1; Lib Dem 1; Green 1; UKIP 1; Ind 1 (ex-UKIP)

NEW SEATS: Brexit Party 4; Lib Dems 3; Green 1; Con 1; Lab 1 

FULL LIST OF WINNERS: Daniel Hannan (C), John Howarth (Lab), Catherine Bearder (LD), Antony Hook (LD), Judith Bunting (LD), Nigel Farage (Brexit), Alex Phillips (Brexit), Robert Rowland (Brexit), Belinda De Camborne Lucy (Brexit), Alexandra Phillips (Green)

FULL LIST OF VOTES BY PARTY:

Brexit 915,626 (36.06%)

LD 653,743 (25.75%, +17.71%)

Green 343,249 (13.52%, +4.46%)

C 260,277 (10.25%, -20.70%)

Lab 184,678 (7.27%, -7.39%)

Change 105,832 (4.17%)

UKIP 56,487 (2.22%, -29.91%)

WHAT IT MEANS:

Nigel Farage claimed the Brexit Party’s success could be repeated in a general election

 

Nigel Farage was always going to win in the South East region but he romped home with his party winning almost a million votes and four seats.

He used a triumphant victory speech to claim the Brexit Party’s success could be repeated in a general election if we don’t leave the EU in October.

But the anti-Brexit Lib Dems also won 653,743 votes and three seats after coming in second place – prompting cheers at the count in Southampton.

Vince Cable’s party saw an astonishing 18-point increase in its vote share to 26%, galloping ahead of the Tories and Labour.

The Tories won just one seat – down from three in 2014 – leaving lonely hard Brexiteer Daniel Hannan one of just three MEPs across England. He said the result was the “worst ever” for the party.

SOUTH WEST: Widdecombe blast annihilates Labour and Tories

NUMBER OF MEPs: 6

PREVIOUS SEATS: Con 1; Lab 1; Green 1; Lib Dem 1; Brexit Party 2

NEW SEATS: Brexit Party 3; Lib Dems 2; Green 1

FULL LIST OF WINNERS: Caroline Voaden (LD), Martin Horwood (LD), Ann Widdecombe (Brexit), James Glancy (Brexit), Christina Jordan (Brexit), Molly Scott Cato (Green)

FULL LIST OF VOTES BY PARTY:

Brexit 611,742 (36.71%)

LD 385,095 (23.11%, +12.41%)

Green 302,364 (18.14%, +7.04%)

C 144,674 (8.68%, -20.21%)

Lab 108,100 (6.49%, -7.26%)

UKIP 53,739 (3.22%, -29.07%)

Change 46,612 (2.80%)

Ann Widdecombe returned to politics despite her archaic views on gay rights

WHAT IT MEANS:

Ann Widdecombe  returned to politics despite her archaic views on gay rights with a thumping victory for the Brexit Party in the South West region – wiping out both Labour and the Tories.

Ashley Fox,  the Conservative leader in the European Parliament, was ousted in a disaster for the Tories as the Conservative and Labour won no seats at all.

But there was also a huge Remain surge. Green MEP  Molly Scott Cato  retained her seat with a seven-point rise in share while the Lib Dems went from zero to two after coming a solid second place.

This seat had the biggest ‘characters’ in the contest, but hardly any won.

Rachel Johnson,  sister of Tory Boris, lost her bid to pick up a seat for pro-Remain outfit Change UK. The new party won just 46,612 votes. There was a sardonic “yay” in the room as the result was announced.

Labour’s  Andrew Adonis  did not win his bid to gain a seat for his party as Labour lost out completely. UKIP’s “rape joke” furore candidate  Carl Benjamin,  also lost his bid to win.

 

WALES: Labour slip into THIRD in historic heartland loss

NUMBER OF MEPs: 4

PREVIOUS SEATS: Lab 1; Con 1; Plaid Cymru 1; Brexit Party 1

NEW SEATS: Brexit Party 2; Plaid Cymru 1; Lab 1 

FULL LIST OF WINNERS: Jackie Jones (Lab), Jill Evans (PC), Nathan Gill (Brexit), James Wells (Brexit)

FULL LIST OF VOTES BY PARTY:

Brexit 271,404 (31.33%)

PC 193,928 (22.39%, +7.13%)

Lab 127,833 (14.76%, -13.39%)

LD 113,885 (13.15%, +9.20%)

C 54,587 (6.30%, -11.12%)

Green 52,660 (6.08%, +1.54%)

UKIP 27,655 (3.19%, -24.36%)

Change 24,332 (2.81%)

WHAT IT MEANS:

Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said “Remain has won in Wales” – as his anti-Brexit party came third with a surge in the vote. And he’s right that the Lib Dems and Greens both enjoyed a big surge in the vote.

But it’s the Brexit Party who took away easily the biggest vote share at 31%, and two MEPs – at the cost of the Tories, who lost their only seat.

Meanwhile the other big story was Labour slipping to third place in what should be the party’s heartland.

Labour kept the same number of MEPs but its number of votes was down from more than 206,000 in 2014 to just 128,000 this time, slipping behind nationalists Plaid Cymru.

West Midlands 

 

NUMBER OF MEPs: 7

PREVIOUS SEATS: Lab 2; Con 2; Brexit Party 1; UKIP 1; Independent 1 (ex-UKIP)

NEW SEATS: Brexit Party 3; Lab 1; Lib Dem 1; Con 1 

FULL LIST OF WINNERS: Anthea McIntyre (C), Neena Gill (Lab), Phil Bennion (LD), Rupert Lowe (Brexit), Martin Daubney (Brexit), Andrew England Kerr (Brexit), Ellie Chowns (Green)

FULL LIST OF VOTES BY PARTY:

Brexit 507,152 (37.66%)

Lab 228,298 (16.95%, -9.76%)

LD 219,982 (16.33%, +10.77%)

Green 143,520 (10.66%, +5.40%)

C 135,279 (10.04%, -14.27%)

UKIP 66,934 (4.97%, -26.52%)

Change 45,673 (3.39%)

WHAT IT MEANS:

The Brexit Party won an astonishing 38% of the vote in the West Midlands, more than double the 17% obtained by second-placed Labour.

Nigel Farage’s outfit has now picked up three seats in the region, while the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems got just one each.

Last time, the Lib Dems and Greens only just scraped 5% of the vote each. This time the Lib Dems won 16% – a new record in the region for the party, beating the previous record of 14%.

Yorkshire & The Humber

NUMBER OF MEPs: 6

PREVIOUS SEATS: Lab 2; Con 2; UKIP 2

NEW SEATS: Brexit Party 3; Lab 1; Lib Dems 1; Green 1

FULL LIST OF WINNERS: Richard Corbett (Lab), Shaffaq Mohammed (LD), John Longworth (Brexit), Lucy Harris (Brexit), Jake Pugh (Brexit), Magid Magid (Green)

FULL LIST OF VOTES BY PARTY:

Brexit 470,351 (36.48%)

Lab 210,516 (16.33%, -12.99%)

LD 200,180 (15.53%, +9.27%)

Green 166,980 (12.95%, +5.06%)

C 92,863 (7.20%, -12.00%)

UKIP 56,100 (4.35%, -26.78%)

Yorks 50,842 (3.94%)

Change 30,162 (2.34%)

EDP 11,283 (0.88%, -0.15%)

Magid Magid, a former refugee who became Lord Mayor of Sheffield aged 29 and “banned” Donald Trump, celebrated picking up a seat for the Green Party

WHAT IT MEANS:

Magid Magid,  a former refugee who became Lord Mayor of Sheffield aged 29 and “banned” Donald Trump, celebrated picking up a seat for the Green Party.

He won in Yorkshire and the Humber where the Greens came fourth – boosted by an incredible show in Magid’s home city where the party came second.

Once again Labour clung on but lost one of its two seats, with vote share plummeting by 13 points. That means EU leader Richard Corbett kept his seat but anti-Brexit campaigner Eloise Todd failed to be elected as an MEP.

Meanwhile, as with so many other areas, the Tories were wiped out entirely.

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