North East England was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 3 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation, until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Boundaries
The constituency corresponded to the North East England region of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and parts of North Yorkshire.
History
The constituency was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Durham, Northumbria, Tyne and Wear, and parts of Cleveland and Richmond.
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! colspan = 10 | MEPs for former North East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999
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! 1979 – 1984
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! 1984 – 1989
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! 1989 – 1994
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! 1994 – 1999
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| Cleveland <small>(1979 – 1984)</small><br />Cleveland and Yorkshire North <small>(1984 – 1994)</small><br />Cleveland and Richmond <small>(1994 – 1999)</small>
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| colspan = 3 | Peter Vanneck<br />Conservative
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| colspan = 3 | David Bowe<br />Labour
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| Durham
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| Roland Boyes<br />Labour
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| colspan = 5 | Stephen Hughes<br />Labour
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| Northumbria
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| colspan = 7 | Gordon Adam<br />Labour
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| Tyne South and Wear <small>(1979 – 1984)</small><br />Tyne and Wear <small>(1984 – 1999)</small>
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| colspan = 3 | Joyce Quin<br />Labour
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| colspan = 3 | Alan Donnelly<br />Labour
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Returned members
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! colspan = 15 | MEPs for North East England, 1999 onwards
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! Election
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! MEP<br />Party
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| colspan = 7 | Martin Callanan<br />Conservative
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| Jonathan Arnott<br />UKIP (2014–18) <br />Independent (2018 - 2019)<br />Brexit Party (2019)
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| Brian Monteith<br />Brexit Party
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! MEP<br />Party
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| Alan Donnelly<br />Labour<br /><small>until December 1999</small>
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| Gordon Adam<br />Labour<br /><small>from December 1999</small>
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| colspan = 3 | Fiona Hall<br />Liberal Democrat
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| Paul Brannen<br />Labour
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| John Tennant<br />Brexit Party
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! MEP<br />Party
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| colspan = 7 | Stephen Hughes<br />Labour
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| colspan = 3 | Judith Kirton-Darling<br />Labour
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! MEP<br />Party
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| colspan = 3 | Mo O'Toole<br />Labour
! colspan = 9 | Seat abolished
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Election results
Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won and the order in which candidates won their seats.
2019
thumb|2019 results
2014
thumb|2014 results
2004
thumb|2004 results
1999
thumb|1999 results