South East England was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 10 Members of the European Parliament (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 South East England, in the south east of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex.
History
It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East, East Sussex and Kent South, Hampshire North and Oxford, Itchen, Test and Avon, Kent East, Kent West, South Downs West, Surrey, Sussex South and Crawley, Thames Valley, Wight and Hampshire South, and parts of Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes, Cotswolds, and London South and Surrey East.
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! colspan = 10 | MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979–1999
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! Election
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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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| Sussex East <small>(1979–1994)</small><br />East Sussex and Kent South <small>(1994–1999)</small>
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| colspan = 7 | Jack Stewart-Clark<br />Conservative
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| Hampshire West <small>(1979–1984)</small><br />Hampshire Central <small>(1984–1994)</small><br />Itchen, Test and Avon <small>(1994–1999)</small>
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| colspan = 3 | Basil de Ferranti<br />Conservative
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| colspan = 3 | Edward Kellett-Bowman<br />Conservative
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| Kent East
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| colspan = 5 | Christopher Jackson<br />Conservative
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| Mark Watts<br />Labour
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| Kent West
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| colspan = 5 | Ben Patterson<br />Conservative
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| Peter Skinner<br />Labour
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| Surrey <small>(1979–1984, 1994–1999)</small><br />Surrey West <small>(1984–1994)</small>
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| colspan = 3 | Charles Wellesley<br />Conservative
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| colspan = 3 | Tom Spencer<br />Conservative
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| Sussex West <small>(1979–1994)</small><br />Sussex South and Crawley <small>(1994–1999)</small>
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| colspan = 5 | Madron Seligman<br />Conservative
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| Brendan Donnelly<br />Conservative (1994–1999)<br />Pro-Euro Conservative (1999)
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| Thames Valley
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| colspan = 3 | Diana Elles<br />Conservative
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| colspan = 3 | John Stevens<br />Conservative (1989–1999)<br>Brexit Party (2019)
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| Alexandra Phillips<br/>Brexit Party
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! MEP<br/>Party
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| colspan = 13 | Nirj Deva<br/>Conservative
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| Belinda de Lucy<br/>Brexit Party
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! MEP<br/>Party
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| colspan = 15 | Daniel Hannan<br/>Conservative
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! MEP<br/>Party
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| James Provan<br/>Conservative
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| colspan = 11 | Richard Ashworth<br/>Conservative (2004–2017) <br/> Independent (2017–2019)<br/>Change UK (2019)
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| Judith Bunting<br/>Liberal Democrats
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! MEP<br/>Party
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| colspan = 3 | Chris Huhne<br/>Liberal Democrats
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| colspan = 5 | Sharon Bowles<br/>Green
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| colspan = 5 | Keith Taylor<br/>Labour
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| colspan = 3 | John Howarth (2017–2020)<br/>Labour
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! MEP<br/>Party
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| Mark Watts<br/>Labour
! colspan = 15 | Seat abolished
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Election results
Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the order candidates were elected and the number of votes per seat won in their respective columns.
2019
thumb|2019 results
2014
thumb|2014 results
2004
thumb|2004 results
1999
thumb|1999 results