European elections in the United Kingdom in 2009
The European elections in the UK in 2009 took place on June 4, 2009, along with the UK local elections. It was part of the EU- wide European elections in 2009 , so the election results were not announced until Sunday, June 7, 2009, when the election in the other European countries was also over. In the United Kingdom , 72 of the 736 seats in the European Parliament were awarded. Should the enlargement of the Parliament foreseen in the Lisbon Treaty come into force during the 2009-14 legislative period, another British MEP will also join the Parliament. The polling stations were open between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m.
Electoral system
The election was based on proportional representation in twelve electoral districts, namely the nine regions of England and Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland . While the English, Scottish and Welsh constituencies use the D'Hondt procedure , Northern Ireland uses the single transferable voting procedure . In 2008, on a proposal from the Electoral Commission, the British Parliament determined the distribution of MPs among the constituencies. Accordingly, the East Midlands elected 5 MPs, East of England 7, London 8, North East England 3, North West England 8, South East England 10, South West England (including Gibraltar ) 6, Yorkshire and the Humber 6, the West Midlands 6 , Wales 4, Scotland 6 and Northern Ireland 3.
Campaigning parties
In addition to the parties that had already been represented in parliament since the 2004 European elections, numerous other parties took part in the election.
The following were already represented in Parliament from 2004-09:
- Conservative Party (27 seats, EPP-ED Group)
- Labor Party (19 seats, PES Group)
- Liberal Democrats (Lib-Dem, 12 seats, ALDE parliamentary group)
- UK Independence Party (UKIP, 12 seats, Ind / Dem group or non-attached)
- Green Party of England and Wales (Greens, 2 seats, Greens / EFA group, only in England and Wales)
- Scottish National Party (SNP, 2 seats, Greens / EFA parliamentary group, only in Scotland)
- Plaid Cymru (PC, 1 seat, Greens / EFA group, only in Wales)
- Sinn Féin (1 seat, GUE-NGL Group, Northern Ireland only)
- Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, 1 seat, EPP-ED Group, Northern Ireland only)
Of the other parties, only the far-right British National Party (BNP) and the British section of the Eurosceptic Libertas party , which was running for the first time, still had a certain chance of entering parliament.
It is unclear whether the Conservative Party will remain in the EPP-ED Group after the elections . Until 1992, the Conservatives had formed the European Democrats (ED), an independent group from the European People's Party (EPP), which, however, then united with it. However, the ED took a much more Eurosceptic course than the EPP. In 2005, David Cameron , who was later elected leader of the Conservative Party, called for resignation from the joint faction. This led to the establishment of the Movement for European Reform (MER) in 2006 by the Conservative Party and the Czech party ODS . This MER was supposed to become an independent European party with its own parliamentary group after the elections , but did not meet the necessary conditions until 2009. As a possible alternative (in addition to remaining in the EPP-ED group), a link between the British Conservatives and the smaller right-wing conservative Union for a Europe of Nations (UEN), possibly under a new name, was discussed.
The political run-up to the elections was marked by an expense affair uncovered by the Daily Telegraph in May 2009 , which affected all three major British parties (Labor, Conservatives and Lib-Dems). In the surveys, these then plummeted, in some cases significantly, so that various small parties are assigned prospects of increasing their number of seats. The Labor Party's poor poll ratings also contributed to a government crisis in which several ministers resigned in the days immediately following the election. The party also called for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to resign .
Constituencies
The election took place in 12 multi-person constituencies. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each formed a constituency. England was divided into 9 constituencies corresponding to the regions of England
Constituency | MPs 2004 |
MPs 2009 |
change |
---|---|---|---|
East Midlands | 6th | 5 | −1 |
East of England | 7th | 7th | 0 |
London | 9 | 8th | −1 |
North East England | 3 | 3 | 0 |
North West England | 9 | 8th | −1 |
Northern Ireland | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Scotland | 7th | 6th | −1 |
South East England | 10 | 10 | 0 |
South West England 1 | 7th | 6th | −1 |
Wales | 4th | 4th | 0 |
West Midlands | 7th | 6th | −1 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 6th | 6th | 0 |
All in all | 78 | 72 | −6 |
1 including Gibraltar
Overall result
Great Britain
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Party / organization |
European party |
EP Group | Voices 2009 | Seats 2009 |
Difference 2009–2004 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
number | % | be right | % | Seats (absolute) |
Seats (relative) |
||||
Conservative party | - 1 | EPP-ED 1 | 4,198,394 | 27.7 | 25th | −198,696 | +1.0 | −2 | +1 |
UK Independence Party | - | Ind / Dem 2 | 2,498,226 | 16.5 | 13 | −152,542 | +0.3 | +1 | +1 |
Labor Party | SPE | S&D | 2,381,760 | 15.7 | 13 | −1,336,923 | −6.9 | −6 | −5 |
Liberal Democrats | ELDR | ALDE | 2,080,613 | 13.7 | 11 | −371.714 | −1.2 | −1 | +1 |
Green party | EGP | Greens / EFA | 1,223,303 | 8.1 | 2 | +190.210 | +2.8 | ± 0 | ± 0 |
British National Party | - | - | 943,598 | 6.2 | 2 | +135,398 | +1.3 | +2 | +2 |
Scottish National Party | EFA | Greens / EFA | 321.007 | 2.1 | 2 | +89.509 | +0.7 | ± 0 | ± 0 |
Plaid Cymru | EFA | Greens / EFA | 126,702 | 0.8 | 1 | −33.087 | −0.1 | ± 0 | ± 0 |
English Democrats | - | - | 279,801 | 1.8 | 0 | +149,745 | +1.1 | ± 0 | ± 0 |
Christian Party / Christian People's Alliance | - / ECPB | - | 249.493 | 1.6 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Socialist Labor Party | - | - | 173.115 | 1.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
No to EU - Yes to Democracy | - | - | 153.236 | 1.0 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Scottish Green Party | EGP | - | 80,442 | 0.5 | 0 | −747 | ± 0.0 | ± 0 | ± 0 |
Jury team | - | - | 78,569 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
United Kingdom First Party | - | - | 74.007 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Libertas | Libertas | - | 73,544 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Jan Jananayagam ( independent ) | - | - | 50.014 | 0.3 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Pensioners party | - | - | 37,785 | 0.2 | 0 | +4,284 | ± 0.0 | ± 0 | ± 0 |
Mebyon Kernow | EFA | - | 14,922 | 0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Animals Count | - | - | 13,201 | 0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Scottish Socialist Party | - | - | 10,404 | 0.1 | 0 | −50,952 | −0.3 | ± 0 | ± 0 |
Duncan Robertson (independent) | - | - | 10.189 | 0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Peter Rigby (independent) | - | - | 9,916 | 0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
The Peace Party | - | - | 9,534 | 0.1 | 0 | −3.038 | ± 0.0 | ± 0 | ± 0 |
Katie Hopkins (independent) | - | - | 8,971 | 0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Fair Play Fair Trade Party | - | - | 7.151 | <0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
The Roman Party | - | - | 5,450 | <0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Steven Cheung (independent) | - | - | 4,918 | <0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Socialist Party of Great Britain | - | - | 4,050 | <0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Francis Apaloo (independent) | - | - | 3,621 | <0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Yes to Europe | - | - | 3,384 | <0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Sohale Rahman (independent) | - | - | 3,248 | <0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Gene Alcantara (independent) | - | - | 1,972 | <0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Haroon Saad (independent) | - | - | 1,603 | <0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Wai D (Your Decision) | - | - | 789 | <0.1 | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Northern Ireland
candidate | Party / organization | European party | EP Group | Voices 2009 | Seats 2009 |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
number | % | |||||
Bairbre de Brún | Sinn Féin | - | GUE-NGL | 126.184 | 25.8 | 1 |
Diane Dodds | Democratic Unionist Party | - | - | 88,346 | 18.1 | 1 |
Jim Nicholson | Ulster Conservatives and Unionists | - 1 | EPP-ED 1 | 82,893 | 17.0 | 1 |
Alban Maginness | Social Democratic and Labor Party | SPE | - | 78,489 | 16.1 | 0 |
Jim Allister | Traditional Unionist Voice | - | - | 66,197 | 13.5 | 0 |
Ian Parsley | Alliance Party of Northern Ireland | ELDR | - | 26,699 | 5.5 | 0 |
Steven Agnew | Green Party in Northern Ireland | EGP | - | 15,764 | 3.2 | 0 |
1 = The Conservative Party and the Ulster Unionist Party joined after the election of the newly formed European party AECR and the new ECR parliamentary group .
2 = The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) became a member of the newly founded EFD parliamentary group after the election .
voter turnout
Of 45,315,669 eligible voters in the United Kingdom, 15,625,823 voted, representing a turnout of 34.5%. The turnout was 34.3% in the UK and 42.8% in Northern Ireland.
Survey
The following surveys relate to the UK only (excluding Northern Ireland):
UK polls on the 2009 European elections | ||||||||||
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Institute | date | conservative | Labor | UKIP | Lib-Dem | Greens | BNP | SNP | Pc | Others |
You Gov | June 1, 2009 | 27% | 17% | 16% | 15% | 9% | 7% | 4% (SNP + PC) | 6% | |
ICM | May 22, 2009 | 30% | 24% | 10% | 18% | 9% | 1 % | 4% (SNP + PC) | 3% | |
You Gov | May 18, 2009 | 28% | 22% | 15% | 17% | 7% | 5% | 4% (SNP + PC) | 1 % | |
You Gov | May 10, 2009 | 36% | 25% | 7% | 20% | 4% | 4% | 4% (SNP + PC) | 1 % | |
You Gov | January 8, 2009 | 35% | 29% | 7% | 15% | 5% | 4% | 4% (SNP + PC) | 2% | |
Results 2004 | 27% | 23% | 16% | 15% | 6% | 4% | 1.4% | 1.0% | 6% |
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 18, 2009: Under the Spell of Chinese Water Torture ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 5, 2009: The ministers tear down ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ a b result 2009
- ↑ Result 2004
- ^ Result in Northern Ireland 2009
- ↑ a b Voter turnout in Northern Ireland 2009 ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 11 kB)
- ↑ Survey results on the YouGov website (PDF; 152 kB)
- ↑ Poll results in The Guardian
- ↑ Survey results on the YouGov website ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Poll results on the Times Online site
- ↑ Survey results on the YouGov website (PDF; 144 kB)