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| Wales European Parliament constituency |
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| Created | 1999 |
| MEP(s) | 4 (2004) |
| Member State | United Kingdom |
| Source(s) | [1][2] |
Wales is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 4 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
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Boundaries
The constituency corresponds to the country of Wales, one of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom.
Candidates
| European Parliament election 2009 — Wales lists | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidates | |||||||
| Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans MEP, Eurig Wyn, Ioan Bellin, Natasha Asghar | |||||||
| Conservative Party | Kay Swinburne, Evan Price, Emma Greenow, David Chipp | |||||||
| Green Party | Jake Griffiths, Kay Roney, Ann Were, John Matthews | |||||||
| Labour Party | Derek Vaughan, Lisa Stevens, Rachel Maycock, Leighton Veale | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Alan Butt Phillip, Kevin O'Connor, Nick Tregoning, Jackie Radford | |||||||
| UK Independence Party | John Bufton, David Bevan, Kevin Mahoney, David W L Rowlands, Paul Whiffen, Anuruddha Gunavardhana | |||||||
Sources
- Liberal Democrats
- Conservative Party
- Labour Party
- Plaid Cymru
- United Kingdom Independence Party
- Green Party of England and Wales
Members of the European Parliament
1999 - 2004
- Jill Evans, Plaid Cymru
- Jonathan Evans, Conservative
- Glenys Kinnock, Labour
- Eluned Morgan, Labour
- Eurig Wyn, Plaid Cymru
2004 - present
Election results
| European Election 2004: Wales | |||||
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| List | Elected | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Glenys Kinnock Eluned Morgan |
297,810 (148,905) | 32.1 | +0.2 | |
| Conservative | Jonathan Evans | 177,771 | 19.1 | −3.7 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans | 159,888 | 17.2 | −12.4 | |
| UK Independence | None | 96,677 | 10.4 | +7.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | None | 96,116 | 10.3 | +2.1 | |
| Green | None | 32,761 | 3.6 | +1.0 | |
| British National | None | 27,135 | 3.0 | N/A | |
| Forward Wales | None | 17,280 | 1.9 | N/A | |
| Christian Democratic Party | None | 6,821 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Respect | None | 5,427 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 928,775 | 41.9 | +12.9 | ||
| European Election 1999: Wales | |||||
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| List | Elected | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Glenys Kinnock Eluned Morgan |
199,690 (99,845) | 31.9 | N/A | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans Eurig Wyn |
185,235 (92,617.5) | 29.6 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Jonathan Evans | 142,631 | 22.8 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrat | None | 51,283 | 8.2 | N/A | |
| UK Independence | None | 19,702 | 3.1 | N/A | |
| Green | None | 16,146 | 2.6 | N/A | |
| Pro-Euro Conservative | None | 5,834 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | None | 4,283 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | None | 1,621 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 626,425 | 29.0 | N/A | ||
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