2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom information
Election
2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
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All 78 of the United Kingdom's seats in the European Parliament
Turnout
38.5%[1]14.5%
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Jonathan Evans
Gary Titley
Roger Knapman
Party
Conservative
Labour
UKIP
Alliance
EPP
PES
IND/DEM
Leader since
14 December 2001
2002
5 October 2002
Leader's seat
Wales
North East England
South West England
Last election
36 seats, 33.5%
29 seats, 26.3%
3 seats, 6.5%
Seats before
35‡
25‡
2‡
Seats won
27
19
12
Seat change
8*
6*
10*
Popular vote
4,397,087
3,718,683
2,650,768
Percentage
25.9%
21.9%
15.6%
Swing
7.6%
4.4%
9.1%
Fourth party
Fifth party
Green
Leader
Graham Watson
N/A[a]
Party
Liberal Democrats
Green
Alliance
ALDE
European Green Party
Leader since
January 2002
N/A
Leader's seat
South West England
N/A
Last election
10 seats, 11.9%
2 seats, 5.3%
Seats before
10‡
2
Seats won
12
2
Seat change
2*
Popular vote
2,452,327
948,588
Percentage
14.4%
5.6
Swing
2.6%
0.3%
Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the results tables
*Seat change has been adjusted to allow for direct comparison with the results from the 1999 election.[2]
‡Notional 1999 results
Leader of Largest Party before election
Michael Howard
Conservative
Subsequent Leader of Largest Party
Michael Howard
Conservative
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The 2004 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's part of the wider 2004 European Parliament election which was held between 10 and 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union. The United Kingdom's part of this election was held on Thursday 10 June 2004. The election also coincided with the 2004 local elections and the London Assembly and mayoral elections. In total, 78 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.
The Conservative Party and the Labour Party both polled poorly. The Conservatives experienced their second-lowest ever recorded vote share in a national election (even less than their 1832 nadir, although the party would do worse still in the 2014 and 2019 elections), and Labour their lowest since 1918. The UK Independence Party (UKIP) saw a large increase in support, increasing its number of MEPs from 3 to 12 and on popular vote pushed the Liberal Democrats, who themselves had increased their representation from 10 to 12 seats into fourth place. In Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin beat the SDLP in the polls and took its first Northern Ireland seat.
^"Previous European Parliamentary Elections – About Parliament". European Parliament. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
^"European Election: United Kingdom Result". BBC News. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
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