2014 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, 2014

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All 73 United Kingdom seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	35.6%[1] 0.9%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Nigel Farage Ed Miliband David Cameron Party UKIP Labour Conservative Alliance EFDD S&D ECR Leader since 5 November 2010 25 September 2010 6 December 2005 Last election 13 seats, 16.0% 13 seats, 15.2% 26 seats[a], 27.4% Seats won 24 20 19 Seat change 11 7 7 Popular vote 4,376,635 4,020,646 3,792,549 Percentage 26.6% 24.4% 23.1% Swing 10.6% 9.2% 4.3%
Map of the results indicating the seats won in each region by party
Leader of Largest Party before election David Cameron Conservative Subsequent Leader of Largest Party Nigel Farage UKIP

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The United Kingdom's component of the 2014 European Parliament election was held on Thursday 22 May 2014,^[2][3] coinciding with the 2014 local elections in England^[4] and Northern Ireland. In total, 73 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation. England, Scotland and Wales use a closed-list party list system of PR (with the D'Hondt method), while Northern Ireland used the single transferable vote (STV).

Most of the election results were announced after 10pm on Sunday 25 May - with the exception of Scotland, who did not declare their results until the following day - after voting closed throughout the 28 member states of the European Union.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) came top of the poll, winning 24 seats and 27% of the popular vote, the first time a political party other than the Labour Party or Conservative Party had won the popular vote at a British election since the 1906 general election.^[5][6] It was also the first time a party other than Labour or Conservative had won the largest number of seats in a national election since the December 1910 general election.^[7][8][9] In addition, the 23.1% of the vote won by the Conservatives is the lowest ever recorded voteshare for the party in a national election.

The Labour Party became the first Official Opposition party since 1984 to fail to win a European Parliament election, although they did gain 7 seats, taking their overall tally to 20. The governing Conservative Party were pushed into third place for the first time at any European Parliament election, falling to 19 seats, while the Green Party of England and Wales saw their number of MEPs increase for the first time since 1999, winning 3 seats. In Scotland, the Scottish National Party won the largest share of the vote, taking 29% of the vote and 2 MEPs. The Liberal Democrats, who were in coalition with the Conservatives at the time, lost 10 of the 11 seats they were defending and won just 7% of the popular vote.

Figures released in December 2014 showed that the Conservatives and UKIP each spent £2.96m on the campaign, the Liberal Democrats £1.5m and the Labour Party spent approximately £1m.^[10]

Given the subsequent Leave vote in the 23 June 2016 referendum, this is set to be the last time the United Kingdom participated in a European Parliament election.^[11][12][13]

Contents

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  1 Voting system and regional representation
  
  
  
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    1.1 Returning officers
    
  
  
  
  


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  2 MEPs before the 2014 election, by European Parliament group
  


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  3 Parties and candidates
  


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  4 Retiring/resigned incumbents
  
  
  
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    4.1 British Democratic Party
    
  
  
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    4.2 Conservative
    
  
  
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    4.3 Green
    
  
  
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    4.4 Labour
    
  
  
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    4.5 Liberal Democrats
    
  
  
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    4.6 UKIP
    
  
  
  
  


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  5 Debates
  


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  6 Opinion polls
  
  
  
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    6.1 2014
    
  
  
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    6.2 2013
    
  
  
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    6.3 Scottish polls
    
  
  
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    6.4 Welsh polls
    
  
  
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    6.5 London polls
    
  
  
  
  


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  7 Results
  
  
  
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    7.1 United Kingdom results
    
  
  
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    7.2 Election results by constituency
    
  
  
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    7.3 MEPs defeated
    
  
  
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    7.4 Analysis of results
    
  
  
  
  


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  8 See also
  


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  9 Notes
  


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  10 References
  


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  11 External links
  

Voting system and regional representation

Polling station in Gosberton in Lincolnshire within the East Midlands Constituency on 22 May 2014

The United Kingdom elected 73 Members of the European Parliament using proportional representation. The United Kingdom was divided into twelve multi-member constituencies. The eleven of these regions which form Great Britain used a closed-list party list system method of proportional representation, calculated using the D'Hondt method. Northern Ireland used the Single Transferable Vote (STV). As a result of the Treaty of Lisbon coming into force, the UK became entitled to a 73rd MEP as from November 2011. The Electoral Commission performed a reallocation in keeping with the same procedures they used to allocate 72 MEPs and an extra Conservative MEP was allocated to the West Midlands constituency based on the 2009 vote and was enshrined in the European Union Act 2011 as an amendment of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002.^[14]

Electoral region	Representation in 2009	Representation before and after the 2014 election
East Midlands	5	5
East of England	7	7
London	8	8
North East England	3	3
North West England	8	8
South East England	10	10
South West England1	6	6
West Midlands	6	7
Yorkshire and the Humber	6	6
Wales	4	4
Scotland	6	6
Northern Ireland	3	3

¹ Includes Gibraltar, the only British overseas territory which is part of the European Union.

Returning officers

The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) Order 2013 provides for the designated Returning Officer for each electoral region to be the council official responsible for elections in each of the following Westminster constituencies: Kettering for the East Midlands, Chelmsford for the Eastern region, Lewisham, Deptford for the London region, Sunderland Central for the North East region, Manchester Central for the North West region, Falkirk for Scotland, Southampton, Test for the South East region, Poole for the South West region, Preseli Pembrokeshire for Wales, Birmingham Ladywood for the West Midlands region, Leeds Central for the Yorkshire and Humber region, and Belfast South for the Northern Ireland Region.^[15]

MEPs before the 2014 election, by European Parliament group

Between the 2009 and 2014 elections, there were various changes to the breakdown of UK members. In December 2011 a 73rd member from the UK (Anthea McIntyre, Conservative) was allocated to England because of the implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon. There were also various defections:

• one Conservative MEP (Edward McMillan-Scott) defected to the Liberal Democrats (March 2010);^[16]
  


• one Conservative MEP (Roger Helmer) defected to UKIP (March 2012);


• two UKIP MEPs (David Campbell Bannerman in May 2011^[17] and Marta Andreasen in February 2013) defected to the Conservatives;^[18]
  


• one UKIP MEP (Nikki Sinclaire) left the party and later founded the We Demand a Referendum party;


• one UKIP MEP (Mike Nattrass) left the party in September 2013 and later founded An Independence from Europe;^[19]
  


• one UKIP MEP (Godfrey Bloom) left the party in September 2013 and sat as an independent;^[20]
  


• one BNP MEP (Andrew Brons) left the party and later founded the British Democratic Party.

The Ulster Conservatives and Unionists - New Force (UCUNF) electoral pact between the Conservatives and the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) was dissolved.

Thus, before the 2014 election, the following parties had MEPs representing UK constituencies:

Parties in the European Parliament (UK) before the 2014 election
United Kingdom party		Seats/73	European Parliament group		Seats/766
	Conservative	26		European Conservatives and Reformists	52
	UUP	1
	Labour	13		Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats	195
	Liberal Democrats	12		Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe	75
	UKIP	9		Europe of Freedom and Democracy	31
	Independent	1
	Green	2		The Greens–European Free Alliance	52
	Scottish National	2
	Plaid Cymru	1
	Sinn Féin	1		European United Left–Nordic Green Left	35
	Democratic Unionist	1		Non-Inscrits	–
	British Democratic	1			–
	British National	1			–
	We Demand a Referendum	1			–
	An Independence from Europe	1			–

Parties and candidates

39 parties stood a total of 747 candidates. The Conservative Party and UKIP had candidates in every region, as did the three Green parties. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the BNP had a full slate of candidates in all the regions in Great Britain (i.e. excluding Northern Ireland). The English Democrats and An Independence from Europe had a full slate of candidates in all the English regions. No2EU had a full slate in seven regions, while Britain First and the Socialist Party of Great Britain had full slates in two regions each. The Harmony Party stood in four regions and the Christian Peoples Alliance in three regions. Other parties only stood in one region.

United in Europe was a single-issue party founded to contest these elections in Scotland, advocating continued membership of the UK in the EU.^[21] Founded by Charles Cormack in Edinburgh in January 2014 and registered on 3 April 2014^[22] as a response to UKIP and Euroscepticism,^[23][24] the party did not stand^[25] and was deregistered in November 2015.^[26]

Retiring/resigned incumbents

British Democratic Party

(Elected in 2009 as British National Party)

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  Andrew Brons – Yorkshire and the Humber

Conservative

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  Struan Stevenson (Scotland)^[27]
  


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  Sir Robert Atkins (North West England)^[27]
  


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  Giles Chichester (South West England and Gibraltar)^[27]
  


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  Robert Sturdy (East of England)^[27]
  

Green

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  Caroline Lucas (South East England) – Resigned 17 May 2010 & replaced by Keith Taylor
  

Labour

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  Michael Cashman (West Midlands)^[28]
  


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  Stephen Hughes (North East England)^[29]
  


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  Arlene McCarthy (North West England)


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  Brian Simpson (North West England)^[30]
  


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  Peter Skinner (South East England)^[31]
  

Liberal Democrats

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  Diana Wallis (Yorkshire and the Humber) – Resigned 31 January 2012^[32] & replaced by Rebecca Taylor
  


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  Liz Lynne (West Midlands) – Resigned 4 February 2012^[33] & replaced by Phil Bennion
  


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  Sharon Bowles – (South East England)^[34]
  


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  Rebecca Taylor (Yorkshire and the Humber)


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  Fiona Hall (North East England)

UKIP

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  John Bufton (Wales)^[35]
  


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  Trevor Colman (South West England and Gibraltar)


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  Derek Clark (East Midlands)^[36]
  


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  Godfrey Bloom (Yorkshire & Humber), Having spent the last 8 months of his term as an independent^[37][38]
  

Debates

On 20 February, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg used his weekly phone-in show on LBC 97.3 to challenge the leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, to a live public debate on the UK's membership of the European Union.^[39] Clegg said, "he is the leader of the party of 'out'; I am the leader of the party of 'in'. I think it's time we now have a proper, public debate so that the public can listen to the two sides of the argument and judge from themselves."^[40][41] Farage accepted, but said he would also like to see Ed Miliband and David Cameron participate.^[42]

The first hour-long debate between the two men was held on 26 March 2014 and was broadcast live on television by Sky News and on the BBC News Channel. The debate was hosted by LBC and moderated by Nick Ferrari.^[43] After the first debate, a YouGov poll asked "Who performed better?", with 57% saying Farage did better compared to 36% for Clegg.

The second debate was held on BBC Two on 2 April in a special programme called The European Union: In or Out, moderated by David Dimbleby. Farage was again seen as outperforming his rival, with a snap poll by YouGov showing 68% of people thought he did better in the debate compared to 27% for Clegg. A snap Guardian poll also showed that 69% thought Farage won the debate.^[44]

Despite David Cameron and Ed Miliband declining to participate in the leaders' debates, the Conservative and Labour parties were represented in a lower-profile debate on the BBC. On 13 February Andrew Neil hosted a four-way debate on the BBC's Sunday Politics programme. The Conservatives were represented by Syed Kamall MEP, Labour by Richard Howitt MEP, the Liberal Democrats by Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP and the UK Independence Party by Patrick O'Flynn, the party's Director of communications and an MEP candidate.^[45][46]

Opinion polls

These opinion polls are for Great Britain and generally exclude Northern Ireland. The methodology used for these polls broadly corresponds to that used for opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election; see that article for the methodology used by each polling company. YouGov have experimented with different methods of polling for these elections, using their own method for their 8–9 January 2013 poll and another corresponding to that used by Survation and ComRes for their 10–11 January 2013 poll (both below) and argue that their method gives more accurate answers.^[47] Data for these polls are generally gathered at the same time as the data for General Election polling.

2014

Date(s)	Polling organisation/client	Sample	Con	UKIP	Lab	Lib Dems	Others	Lead
22 May 2014	EU election, 2014 (GB) Results	16,017,366	23.9%	27.5%	25.4%	6.9%	16.3%	2.1%
20–21 May	YouGov/The Sun	6,124	22%	27%	26%	9%	16%	1%
19–21 May	Opinium/Daily Mail	1,967	21%	32%	25%	6%	16%	7%
19–20 May	Survation/Mirror	1,106	23%	32%	27%	9%	11%	5%
19–20 May	YouGov/The Sun	1,874	23%	27%	27%	10%	14%	Tied
18–19 May	YouGov/The Sun	1,740	21%	24%	28%	10%	17%	4%
15–19 May	TNS	1,217	21%	31%	28%	7%	13%	3%
16–18 May	ComRes[permanent dead link]	2,061	20%	33%	27%	7%	13%	6%
15–16 May	YouGov/Sunday Times	1,892	23%	26%	27%	9%	14%	1%
13–16 May	Opinium/Daily Mail	2,036	20%	31%	29%	5%	15%	2%
14–15 May	ICM/Sunday Telegraph	2,033	26%	25%	29%	7%	13%	3%
14–15 May	ComRes	2,045	20%	35%	24%	6%	15%	11%
13–14 May	YouGov/The Sun	1,968	22%	25%	28%	10%	15%	3%
9–12 May	Opinium	1,936	22%	30%	28%	7%	13%	2%
9–11 May	ICM/The Guardian	1,000	27%	26%	24%	7%	16%	1%
9–11 May	ComRes/C4M	2,056	22%	34%	24%	8%	12%	10%
9 May	Survation/Mail on Sunday	1,005	21%	32%	28%	9%	11%	4%
6–8 May	Opinium/Daily Mail	1,972	23%	28%	27%	8%	14%	1%
28 Apr – 6 May	YouGov/Sky News	1,933	23%	31%	25%	9%	14%	6%
2–3 May	Survation/Mirror	1,005	24%	31%	28%	7%	10%	3%
1–2 May	YouGov/Sunday Times	1,945	22%	29%	28%	7%	14%	1%
30 Apr – 1 May	YouGov/Sun on Sunday	1,844	23%	29%	26%	10%	12%	3%
30 Apr – 1 May	YouGov/The Sun	1,813	22%	27%	30%	9%	13%	3%
27–30 Apr	YouGov/The Sun	5,331	22%	28%	29%	9%	13%	1%
24–28 Apr	TNS	1,199	18%	36%	27%	10%	12%	9%
25–27 Apr	ComRes[permanent dead link]	2,052	18%	38%	27%	8%	14%	11%
24–25 Apr	YouGov/Sunday Times	1,835	19%	31%	28%	9%	13%	3%
21–22 Apr	YouGov/The Sun	2,190	22%	27%	30%	10%	11%	3%
15–17 Apr	ICM/Sunday Telegraph	2,000	22%	27%	30%	8%	13%	3%
11–13 Apr	ICM/The Guardian	1,000	25%	20%	36%	6%	13%	11%
3–7 Apr	TNS	1,193	21%	29%	30%	9%	11%	1%
4–6 Apr	Populus/Financial Times	2,034	27%	25%	31%	10%	7%	4%
3–4 Apr	YouGov/Sunday Times	1,998	22%	28%	30%	9%	10%	2%
4 Apr	Survation/Mail on Sunday	1,001	21%	27%	34%	9%	9%	7%
2–3 Apr	ComRes/The People	2,067	22%	30%	30%	8%	10%	Tied
2 Apr	Broadcast of The European Union: In or Out debate.
27–28 Mar	YouGov/The Sunday Times	1,916	24%	23%	32%	11%	10%	8%
26–27 Mar	YouGov/The Sun	2,039	24%	26%	28%	11%	11%	2%
26 Mar	LBC radio debate on the European Union between the Lib Dems' Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage of UKIP.
20–21 Mar	Survation/Mail on Sunday	1,000	28%	23%	32%	7%	10%	4%
17–18 Mar	YouGov/Times	2,284	24%	23%	32%	10%	11%	8%
12–13 Mar	ComRes/Independent on Sunday	2,001	21%	30%	28%	8%	13%	2%
7–9 Feb	ICM/The Guardian	1,002	25%	20%	35%	9%	11%	10%
14–15 Jan	YouGov/The Sun	1,893	23%	26%	32%	9%	10%	6%
3 Jan	Survation/Mail on Sunday	1,001	23%	26%	32%	9%	10%	6%

2013

Date(s)	Polling organisation/client	Sample	Con	UKIP	Lab	Lib Dems	Others	Lead
21–22 Nov	Survation/Daily Star	1,006	24%	25%	32%	8%	12%	7%
11 Oct	Survation/Mail on Sunday	1,017	21%	22%	35%	11%	11%	13%
22–24 May	ComRes/Open Europe	2,003	21%	27%	23%	18%	11%	4%
17–18 May	Survation/Mail on Sunday	1,000	20%	30%	31%	8%	11%	1%
17–18 Jan	YouGov/The Sun	1,912	30%	12%	38%	13%	10%	8%
10–11 Jan	YouGov/The Sun	1,995	24%	19%	36%	12%	10%	12%
9–10 Jan	ComRes/Sunday People	2,002	22%	23%	35%	8%	12%	12%
8–9 Jan	YouGov/The Sun	1,980	27%	17%	38%	12%	6%	11%
5 Jan	Survation/Mail on Sunday	772	24%	22%	31%	11%	12%	7%
4 Jun 2009	EU election, 2009 (GB) Results	15,136,932	27.7%	16.5%	15.7%	13.7%	25.6%	11.2%

Scottish polls

Date(s)	Polling organisation/client	Sample	SNP	Lab	Con	Lib Dems	UKIP	Others	Lead
22 May 2014	EU election, 2014 (Scotland)	1,343,483	29.0%	25.9%	17.2%	7.1%	10.5%	10.4%	3.1%
12–15 May 2014	ICM/Scotsman	1,003	36%	27%	13%	7%	9%	8%	9%
9–12 May 2014	Survation/Daily Record	1,003	37%	26%	13%	6%	11%	7%	11%
11–22 Apr 2014	YouGov/Edinburgh University	1,014	33%	31%	12%	7%	10%	7%	2%
14–16 Apr 2014	ICM/Scotland on Sunday	1,004	37%	28%	11%	7%	10%	6%	9%
4–7 Apr 2014	Survation/Daily Record	1,002	39%	30%	14%	6%	7%	5%	9%
17–21 Mar 2014	ICM/Scotsman	1,010	41%	29%	13%	5%	6%	6%	12%
21–24 Jan 2014	ICM/Scotsman	1,010	43%	24%	14%	6%	7%	6%	19%
4 Jun 2009	EU election, 2009 (Scotland)	1,104,512	29.1%	20.8%	16.8%	11.5%	5.2%	16.6%	8.2%

Welsh polls

Date(s)	Polling organisation/client	Sample	Con	Lab	Plaid	UKIP	Lib Dems	Others	Lead
22 May 2014	EU election, 2014 (Wales) Results	733,060	17.4%	28.2%	15.3%	27.6%	4.0%	7.7%	0.6%
12–14 May 2014	YouGov/ITV	1,092	16%	33%	15%	23%	7%	7%	10%
11–22 Apr 2014	YouGov/Cardiff University	1,027	18%	39%	11%	20%	7%	6%	19%
10–12 Feb 2014	YouGov/ITV	1,250	17%	39%	12%	18%	7%	7%	21%
2–4 Dec 2013	YouGov/ITV	1,001	20%	41%	13%	13%	8%	5%	21%
4 Jun 2009	EU election, 2009 (Wales) Results	684,520	21.2%	20.3%	18.5%	12.8%	10.7%	16.6%	0.9%

London polls

Date(s)	Polling organisation/client	Sample	Con	Lab	Lib Dems	Green	UKIP	Others	Lead
22 May 2014	EU election, 2014 (London) Results	2,200,475	22.5%	36.7%	6.7%	8.9%	16.9%	8.3%	14.2%
6–8 May 2014	YouGov/Evening Standard	1,422	23%	37%	9%	7%	21%	3%	14%
28–29 Apr 2014	Survation	1,001	21%	39%	13%	7%	20%	1%	18%
7–9 Apr 2014	YouGov/Evening Standard	1,209	25%	33%	11%	5%	24%	3%	8%
8-10 Oct 2013	YouGov/Evening Standard	1,231	23%	34%	10%	9%	22%	1%	11%
4 Jun 2009	EU election, 2009 (London) Results	1,751,026	27.4%	21.3%	13.7%	10.9%	10.8%	15.9%	6.1%

Results

United Kingdom results

Map of highest polling party in each council area (results for Northern Ireland per council area are not available):^[48]

  UKIP

  Labour

  Conservatives

  SNP

  Plaid Cymru

  Liberal Democrats

Results of the 2014 European Parliament election for the United Kingdom^[49][50]

Party		Votes			Seats
		Number	%	+/-	Seats	+/-	%
	UK Independence Party	4,376,635	26.6	10.6	24	11	32.9
	Labour Party	4,020,646	24.4	9.2	20	7	27.4
	Conservative Party	3,792,549	23.1	3.8	19	7	26.0
	Green Party	1,136,670	6.9	0.9	3	1	4.1
	Liberal Democrats	1,087,633	6.6	6.7	1	10	1.4
	Scottish National Party	389,503	2.4	0.3	2		2.7
	An Independence from Europe	235,124	1.4	New	0
	British National Party	179,694	1.1	5.0	0	2
	Sinn Féin	159,813	1.0	0.2	1		1.4
	DUP	131,163	0.8	0.2	1		1.4
	English Democrats	126,024	0.8	1.0	0
	Plaid Cymru	111,864	0.7	0.1	1		1.4
	Scottish Green Party	108,305	0.7	0.1	0
	Ulster Unionist Party	83,438	0.5	New	1	1	1.4
	SDLP	81,594	0.5		0
	TUV	75,806	0.5		0
	Christian Peoples Alliance	50,222	0.3	1.3	0
	Alliance	44,432	0.3	0.1	0
	No2EU	31,757	0.1	0.8	0
	4 Freedoms Party (UK EPP)	28,014	0.2	New	0
	We Demand a Referendum Now	23,426	0.1	New	0
	NHA	23,253	0.1	New	0
	Animal Welfare Party	21,092	0.1		0
	Britain First	20,272	0.1	New	0
	Yorkshire First	19,017	0.1	New	0
	Europeans Party	10,712	0.1	New	0
	Green (NI)	10,598	0.1		0
	NI21	10,553	0.1	New	0
	Peace Party	10,130	0.1		0
	Others	55,011	0.3	3.4	0
Valid Votes		16,454,950	99.5		73	1
Rejected Votes		90,812	0.6
Overall turnout		16,545,762	35.6	0.9

Election results by constituency

^[49]

Constituency	Current members
East Midlands
East of England
London
North East England
North West England
South East England
South West England
West Midlands
Yorkshire and the Humber
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland

MEPs defeated

Conservative

• 
  Marina Yannakoudakis – London


• 
  Martin Callanan – North East


• 
  Marta Andreasen – South East

Liberal Democrats

• 
  Bill Newton Dunn – East Midlands


• 
  Andrew Duff – East of England


• 
  Sarah Ludford – London


• 
  Chris Davies – North West


• 
  Graham Watson – South West


• 
  Phil Bennion – West Midlands


• 
  Edward McMillan-Scott – Yorkshire and the Humber


• 
  George Lyon – Scotland

British National Party

• 
  Nick Griffin – North West

An Independence from Europe

• 
  Mike Nattrass – West Midlands

We Demand a Referendum

• 
  Nikki Sinclaire – West Midlands

Analysis of results

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) came top of the poll, the first time a political party other than the Labour Party or Conservative Party had won the popular vote at a British election since the 1906 general election.^[51][52] It was also the first time a party other than Labour or Conservative had won the largest number of seats in a national election since the December 1910 general election.^[53][54][55] However, by the end of 2018, following multiple departures and other changes, only 9 MEPs remained affiliated to UKIP.^[56]

The Labour Party became the first Official Opposition party since 1984 to fail to win a European Parliament election, although they did gain 7 seats, taking their overall tally to 20. They concurrently won the largest share of the vote in 100 council areas, with their largest vote share recorded in Newham at 58.4%.^[57]

The governing Conservative Party were pushed into third place for the first time at any European Parliament election; winning just 23.3% of the national vote share and losing 7 seats to fall to 19 overall, one behind Labour and won the largest share of the vote in just 89 council areas and their highest vote was recorded in Elmbridge at 43.1%.

The Green Party of England and Wales saw their number of MEPs increase for the first time since 1999, winning a total of 3 seats. The party rose from fifth place to fourth, although their vote share declined slightly compared to 2009. This was the first time since 1989 that the Greens had outpolled the Liberal Democrats in a European election.

In Scotland, the Scottish National Party won the largest share of the vote taking 29% of the vote and won the largest share of the vote in 15 of the 32 Scottish council areas and retained their two seats.

The Liberal Democrats, who were in coalition with the Conservatives at the time, lost ten of the eleven seats they were defending and won just 6.6% of the vote share nationally. and won just 4 council areas. Their highest vote share was recorded in Gibraltar where they won a 67.2% share of the vote.

See also

• Bloomberg speech


• List of political parties in the United Kingdom


• Members of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom 2014–19


• Opinion polling for the United Kingdom general election, 2015


• United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016


• Newark by-election, 2014


• United Kingdom general election, 2015

Notes

1. 
   ^ In 2009, the Conservatives were in alliance with the Ulster Unionist Party in Northern Ireland as Ulster Conservatives and Unionists, electing 1 Northern Irish MEP under this label. By 2014 the UCUNF alliance had been dissolved.
   

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External links

• UK European Parliament Information Office


• Euro Election 2014

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