Election results for North West Region (European Parliamentary Election 2014)
First the boring details. In the North West Region (of England) for the European Parliament elections in 2014 on the 20th May 2014 there were 5,267,777 people eligible to vote. Out of these 5,267,777 people there were 1,773,296 verified ballot papers which represented a turnout of 33.66%.
This region elects eight Members of the European Parliament. People vote for a particular party. Each party has a list of candidates. Depending on how many votes each party gets that party is assigned between zero and eight members of the European Parliament under the D’Hondt system. For example if Mr Paul Smith is number 1 on the “Made Up Party” list and they the “Made Up Party” have enough votes to be allocated 1 MEP under the D’Hondt system, then Mr Paul Smith becomes a Member of the European Parliament.
In 2009 (the last time there was a European election in the North West Region) there were 3 Conservative MEPs elected, two Labour MEPs, one UKIP MEP, one BNP MEP and one Liberal Democrat MEP. Seven other political parties stood in that election but failed to get enough votes to have an MEP elected such as the Green Party who had 127,133 votes in 2009 (7.7%).
The results for 2014 were:
| Political Party | Votes |
|---|---|
| Labour | 594,063 |
| UKIP | 481,932 |
| Conservatives | 351,985 |
| (only the parties above had enough votes to elect one or more MEPs) | |
| Green | 123,075 |
| Liberal Democrats | 105,487 |
| British National Party | 32,826 |
| An Independence from Europe | 26,731 |
| English Democrats | 19,522 |
| Pirate Party | 8,597 |
| NO2EU | 5,402 |
| Socialist Equality Party | 5,067 |
These are the candidates who were elected for the North West Region.
Labour (3 MEPs) who are Theresa Griffin, Afzal Khan and Julie Ward.
UKIP (3 MEPs) who are Paul Nuttall, Louise Bours and Steven Woolfe.
Conservative (2 MEPs) who are Jacqueline Foster and Sajjad Karim.
I will post the breakdown for how people voted in the Wirral area when it is available.
ED – How people voted on Wirral in the European election has since been published and is copied below.
| Party | Votes |
| Labour Party | 29,070 |
| UK Independence Party | 21,781 |
| Conservative Party | 17,856 |
| Green Party | 6,835 |
| Liberal Democrats | 3,377 |
| An Independence from Europe | 1,347 |
| British National Party | 1,067 |
| English Democrats | 798 |
| Pirate Party UK | 390 |
| NO2EU | 263 |
| Socialist Equality Party | 248 |
| Total valid votes cast in Wirral | 83,032 |
| Spoiled ballot papers | 434 |
| Electorate for Wirral | 238,657 |
| Turnout for Wirral | 34.97% |
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