Yorkshire and the Humber was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected six 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 the Yorkshire and the Humber region of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
History
It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Humberside, Leeds, North Yorkshire, Sheffield, Yorkshire South, Yorkshire South West, Yorkshire West, and parts of Cleveland and Richmond and Lincolnshire and Humberside South.
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! colspan = 12 | MEPs for former Yorkshire and the Humber 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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! colspan = 3 | 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 = 5 | David Bowe<br />Labour
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| Humberside
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| colspan = 3 | Robert Battersby<br />Conservative
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| colspan = 5 | Peter Crampton<br />Labour
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| Leeds
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| Derek Enright<br />Labour
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| colspan = 7 | Michael McGowan<br />Labour
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| Lincolnshire <small>(1979–1994)</small><br />Lincolnshire and Humberside South <small>(1994–1999)</small>
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| colspan = 5 | Bill Newton Dunn<br />Conservative
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| colspan = 3 | Veronica Hardstaff<br />Labour
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| Sheffield
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| Richard Caborn<br />Labour
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| Bob Cryer<br />Labour
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| colspan = 5 | Roger Barton<br />Labour
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| Yorkshire North <small>(1979–1984)</small><br />York <small>(1984–1994)</small><br />North Yorkshire <small>(1994–1999)</small>
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| Neil Balfour<br />Conservative
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| colspan = 7 | Edward McMillan-Scott<br />Conservative
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| Yorkshire South
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| Brian Key<br />Labour/Co-operative
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| colspan = 5 | Norman West<br />Labour<br /><small>to 1998</small>
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| Linda McAvan<br />Labour<br /><small>from 1998</small>
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| Yorkshire South West
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| colspan = 9 | Thomas Megahy<br />Labour
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| Yorkshire West
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| colspan = 9 | Barry Seal<br />Labour
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Returned members
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! colspan = 17 | MEPs for Yorkshire and the Humber, 1999 onwards
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! Election
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| colspan = 4 |
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! MEP<br />Party
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| colspan = 5 | Diana Wallis<sup>1</sup><br />Liberal Democrat
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| width=9px | Rebecca Taylor<br />Liberal Democrat
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| colspan = 4 | Mike Hookem<br />UKIP
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| Shaffaq Mohammed<br />Liberal Democrat
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! MEP<br />Party
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| colspan = 7 | Edward McMillan-Scott<br />Conservative (1999–2009)<br />Liberal Democrat (2010–2014)
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| colspan = 4| Jane Collins<br /> UKIP (2014–2019) <br />Brexit Party (2019)
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| John Longworth<br />Brexit Party (May–December 2019)<br>Independent (December 2019 to 2020),<br> Conservative Party (2020)
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! MEP<br />Party
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| Robert Goodwill<br />Conservative
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| colspan = 5 | Godfrey Bloom<br />UKIP (2004–2013)<br /> Independent (2013–2014)
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| colspan = 4 | Amjad Bashir <br />UKIP (2014–2015)<br />Conservative (2015–2019)
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| Jake Pugh<br />Brexit Party
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! MEP<br />Party
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| colspan = 10 | Timothy Kirkhope<sup>2</sup><br />Conservative
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| width=9px | John Procter<br />Conservative
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| Lucy Harris<br />Brexit Party (May–December 2019)<br>Independent (December 2019 to 2020),<br> Conservative Party (2020)
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! MEP<br />Party
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| colspan = 3 | Richard Corbett<br />Labour
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| colspan = 3 | Andrew Brons<br />British National Party (2009–2012)<br />Independent (2012)<br />British Democratic Party (2013–2014)
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| colspan = 6 | Richard Corbett<br />Labour
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! MEP<br />Party
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| colspan = 12 | Linda McAvan<br />Labour
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| Magid Magid<br />Green
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! MEP<br />Party
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| David Bowe<br />Labour
! colspan = 14 | Seat abolished
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<sup>1</sup>Diana Wallis resigned in January 2012.<br />
<sup>2</sup>Timothy Kirkhope was appointed to the House of Lords in 2016 and as a result was required to resign.
Election results
Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the order in which 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
References
External links
- Biographies of Y&H candidates 2009 at Micandidate
- Breakdown of 2009 election results by council areas (pdf)
- Includes photos, contact information, links to EU website profiles