2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom information
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2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
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All 72 of the United Kingdom's seats in the European Parliament
Turnout
34.7%[1]3.8%
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Timothy Kirkhope
Nigel Farage
Glenis Willmott
Party
Conservative
UKIP
Labour
Alliance
ECR
EFD
S&D
Leader since
18 November 2008
12 September 2006
18 January 2009
Leader's seat
Yorkshire and the Humber
South East England
East Midlands
Last election
27 seats, 25.9%
12 seats, 15.6%
19 seats, 21.9%
Seats before
25‡
12‡
18‡
Seats won
26†
13
13
Seat change
1*
1*
5*
Popular vote
4,281,286†
2,498,226
2,381,760
Percentage
27.4%
16.0%
15.2%
Swing
1.0%
0.4%
6.6%
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Graham Watson
Caroline Lucas
Nick Griffin
Party
Liberal Democrats
Green
BNP
Alliance
ALDE
Green
NI
Leader since
January 2002
5 September 2008
27 September 1999
Leader's seat
South West England
South East England
North West England
Last election
12 seats, 14.4%
2 seats, 2.8%
0 seats, 0.0%
Seats before
10‡
2‡
0‡
Seats won
11
2
2
Seat change
1*
2*
Popular vote
2,080,613
1,223,303
943,598
Percentage
13.3%
7.8%
6.2%
Swing
1.1%
2.2%
1.3%
Seventh party
Leader
Alex Salmond
Party
SNP
Alliance
European Free Alliance
Leader since
3 September 2004
Leader's seat
N/A
Last election
2 seats, 1.4%
Seats before
2
Seats won
2
Seat change
Popular vote
321,007
Percentage
2.1
Swing
0.7
Map of the results indicating the seats won in each region by party
*Seat change has been adjusted to allow for direct comparison with the results from the 2004 election.[2] †(including 1 UCUNF) ‡Notional results
Leader of Largest Party before election
David Cameron
Conservative
Subsequent Leader of Largest Party
David Cameron
Conservative
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The 2009 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2009 European Parliament election, the voting for which was held on Thursday 4 June 2009. The election was held concurrently with the 2009 local elections in England. In total, 72 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.
Notable outcomes were that the Labour Party – which came third – suffered a significant drop in support, and that the UK Independence Party (UKIP) finished second in a major election for the first time in its history, coming level with Labour in terms of seats but ahead of it in terms of votes. This was the first time in British electoral history that a party in government had been outpolled in a national election by a party with no representation in the House of Commons. The British National Party (BNP) also won two seats, its first ever in a nationwide election.[3] It also marked the first time the Scottish National Party (SNP) won the largest share of the European election vote in Scotland,[4] and the first time Labour had failed to come first in a Welsh election since 1918.[5] It was the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)'s worst ever European election result, and also the first time an Irish Republican party, Sinn Féin, topped the polls in Northern Ireland.[6]
^"Previous European Parliamentary Elections – About Parliament". European Parliament. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
^"European Election: United Kingdom Result". BBC News. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
^"Voters steer Europe to the right". BBC News. 8 June 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
^"Salmond hails 'historic' Euro win". BBC News. 8 June 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
^"Tories top European poll in Wales". BBC News. 8 June 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
^"DUP's worst ever Euro poll result". BBC News. 8 June 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
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