Wales (European Parliament constituency)

Wales
European Parliament constituency
Location among the 2014 constituencies
Shown in the United Kingdom
Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1999
Dissolved	31 January 2020
MEPs	5 (1999–2004) 4 (2004–2020)
Sources
[1][2]

Wales (Welsh: Cymru [ˈkəmri] ^ⓘ) was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 4 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation,^[1] until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.

Boundaries

The constituency corresponded to the boundaries of Wales, one of the four countries of the United Kingdom.^[2][3]

History

It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Mid and West Wales, North Wales, South Wales Central, South Wales East, and South Wales West.

MEPs for former Welsh constituencies, 1979–1999[4]
Election		1979–1984		1984–1989		1989–1994		1994–1999
North Wales		Beata Brookes Conservative				Joe Wilson Labour
Mid and West Wales		Ann Clwyd Labour		David Morris Labour				Eluned Morgan Labour
South East Wales (1979–1984) South Wales East (1984–1999)		Allan Rogers Labour		Llew Smith Labour				Glenys Kinnock Labour
South Wales		Win Griffiths Labour				Wayne David Labour	Constituency abolished
South Wales Central	Constituency not established							Wayne David Labour
South Wales West	Constituency not established							David Morris Labour

Returned members

MEPs for Wales, 1999 onwards
Election		1999 (5th parliament)		2004 (6th parliament)		2009 (7th parliament)		2014 (8th parliament)		2019 (9th parliament)
MEP Party		Jonathan Evans Conservative				Kay Swinburne Conservative				James Wells Brexit Party
MEP Party		Eluned Morgan Labour				John Bufton UKIP		Nathan Gill UKIP (until 2018) Independent (2018–2019) Brexit Party (from 2019)
MEP Party		Glenys Kinnock Labour				Derek Vaughan Labour				Jackie Jones Labour
MEP Party		Jill Evans Plaid Cymru
MEP Party		Eurig Wyn Plaid Cymru	Seat abolished

Key to political groups of the European Parliament (UK)[5] v t e
Party				Faction in European Parliament
	Brexit Party	29			Non-Inscrits	57
	DUP	1
	Liberal Democrats	16	17		Renew Europe	108
	Alliance	1
	Green	7	11		Greens–European Free Alliance	75
	SNP	3
	Plaid Cymru	1
	Labour	10			Socialists and Democrats	154
	Conservative	4			European Conservatives and Reformists Group	62
	Sinn Féin	1			European United Left–Nordic Green Left	41
Total		73		Total		750

Election results

Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.

Elections in the 2010s

2019

Map showing highest polling party by counting area in the 2019 European Parliament election;

  Brexit Party

  Plaid Cymru

^[8]

European Election 2019: Wales[6][7]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Brexit Party	Nathan Gill (1) James Wells (3) Gethin James, Julie Price	271,404 (135,702)	32.46	32.46
	Plaid Cymru	Jill Evans (2) Carmen Smith, Patrick McGuinness, Ioan Bellin	163,928	19.60	4.34
	Labour	Jacqueline Jones (4) Matthew Dorrance, Mary Wimbury, Mark Whitcutt	127,833	15.29	12.86
	Liberal Democrats	Sam Bennett, Donna Lalek, Alistair Cameron, Andrew Parkhurst	113,885	13.62	9.67
	Conservative	Daniel Boucher, Craig Lawton, Fay Jones, Tomos Davies	54,587	6.53	10.90
	Green	Anthony Slaughter, Ian Chandler, Ceri Davies, Duncan Rees	52,660	6.30	1.76
	UKIP	Kristian Hicks, Keith Edwards, Thomas Harrison, Robert McNeil-Wilson	27,566	3.30	24.25
	Change UK	Jon Owen Jones, June Davies, Matthew Paul, Sally Anne Stephenson	24,332	2.91	2.91
Turnout			836,195	37.1	5.6

2019 opinion polls

Date(s)	Polling organisation/client	Sample	Lab	UKIP	Con	Plaid	Green	Lib Dems	Brexit	Change UK	Others	Lead
16–20 May 2019	YouGov/ITV[9]	1,009	15%	2%	7%	19%	8%	10%	36%	2%	0%	17%
10–15 May 2019	YouGov/Plaid Cymru[10]	1,133	18%	3%	7%	16%	8%	10%	33%	4%	0%	15%
2–5 April 2019	YouGov/ITV[11]	1,025	30%	11%	16%	15%	5%	6%	10%	8%	1%	14%
22 May 2014	2014 EU election results	733,060	28.2%	27.6%	17.4%	15.3%	4.5%	4.0%	N/A	N/A	3.2%	0.6%

2014

Map outlining the highest polling party by county / county borough in Wales for the 2014 election;

  Labour

  UKIP

  Conservatives

  Plaid Cymru

European Election 2014: Wales
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Labour	Derek Vaughan Jayne Bryant, Alex Thomas, Christina Rees[12][13]	206,332	28.15	7.8
	UKIP	Nathan Gill James Cole, Caroline Jones, David Rowlands[13][14]	201,983	27.55	14.7
	Conservative	Kay Swinburne Aled Davies, Dan Boucher, Richard Hopkin[13][15]	127,742	17.43	3.8
	Plaid Cymru	Jill Evans Marc Jones, Stephen Cornelius, Ioan Bellin[13][16][17]	111,864	15.26	3.2
	Green	Pippa Bartolotti, John Matthews, Chris Were, Rosemary Cutler[13][18][19]	33,275	4.54	1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Alec Dauncey, Robert Speht, Jackie Radford, Bruce Roberts[13]	28,930	3.95	6.8
	BNP	Mike Whitby, Laurence Reid, Jean Griffin, Gary Tumulty[13]	7,655	1.04	4.4
	Britain First	Paul Golding, Anthony Golding, Christine Smith, Anne Elstone[13]	6,633	0.9	New
	Socialist Labour	Andrew Jordan, Katherine Jones, David Lloyd Jones, Liz Screen[13]	4,459	0.61	1.2
	NO2EU	Robert Griffiths, Claire Job, Steve Skelly, Laura Picand[13]	2,803	0.38	0.9
	Socialist (GB)	Brian Johnson, Richard Cheney, Ed Blewitt, Howard Moss[13][20]	1,384	0.19	New
Turnout			733,060	31.5	1.1

2014 opinion polls

Date(s)	Polling organisation/client	Sample	Con	Lab	Plaid	UKIP	Lib Dems	Others	Lead
22 May 2014	EU election, 2014 (Wales) Results	733,060	17.4%	28.2%	15.3%	27.6%	4.0%	7.7%	0.6%
12–14 May 2014	YouGov/ITV[21]	1,092	16%	33%	15%	23%	7%	7%	10%
11–22 Apr 2014	YouGov/Cardiff University[22]	1,027	18%	39%	11%	20%	7%	6%	19%
10–12 Feb 2014	YouGov/ITV[23]	1,250	17%	39%	12%	18%	7%	7%	21%
2–4 Dec 2013	YouGov/ITV[24]	1,001	20%	41%	13%	13%	8%	5%	21%
4 Jun 2009	EU election, 2009 (Wales) Results	684,520	21.2%	20.3%	18.5%	12.8%	10.7%	16.6%	0.9%

Elections in the 2000s

European Election 2009: Wales[25][26]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Conservative	Kay Swinburne Evan Price, Emma Greenow, David Chipp	145,193	21.2	1.8
	Labour	Derek Vaughan Lisa Stevens, Rachel Maycock, Leighton Veale	138,852	20.3	12.2
	Plaid Cymru	Jill Evans Eurig Wyn, Ioan Bellin, Natasha Asghar	126,702	18.5	1.1
	UKIP	John Bufton David Bevan, Kevin Mahoney, David Rowlands	87,585	12.8	2.3
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Butt Phillip, Kevin O'Connor, Nick Tregoning, Jackie Radford	73,082	10.7	0.2
	Green	Jake Griffiths, Kay Roney, Ann Were, John Matthews	38,160	5.6	2.0
	BNP	Ennys Hughes, Laurence Read, Clive Bennett, Kevin Edwards	37,114	5.4	2.4
	Christian	Jeffrey Green, David Griffiths, Alun Owen, John Harrold	13,037	1.9	New
	Socialist Labour	Robert English, Richard Booth, Liz Screen, Judith Sambrook	12,402	1.8	New
	NO2EU	Robert Griffiths, Rob Williams, Laura Picand, Trevor Jones	8,600	1.3	New
	Jury Team (UK)	Paul Sabanskis, James Eustace, Neil Morgan, Steven Partridge	3,793	0.6	New
Turnout			684,520	30.4	11.0

European Election 2004: Wales[27]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Labour	Glenys Kinnock, Eluned Morgan Gareth Williams, Gwennan Jeremiah	297,810 (148,905)	32.5	0.6
	Conservative	Jonathan Evans Owen Williams, Felicity Elphick, Albert Fox	177,771	19.4	3.3
	Plaid Cymru	Jill Evans Jon Blackwood, Eilian Williams, Gwenllian Lansdown	159,888	17.4	12.2
	UKIP	David Rowlands, Clive Easton, Elizabeth Phillips, Timothy Jenkins	96,677	10.5	7.4
	Liberal Democrats	David John Williams, Alison Goldsworthy, Nicholas Tregoning, Nilmini Priyanga de Silva	96,116	10.5	2.4
	Green	Martyn Shrewsbury, Molly Scott Cato, David Bradney, Dorienne Robinson	32,761	3.6	1.0
	BNP	John Walker, Pauline Gregory, James Roberts, Mark Stringfellow[28]	27,135	3.0	New
	Forward Wales	Ron Davies, Wendy Paintsil, Janet Williams, Graham Jones	17,280	1.9	New
	Christian Democratic Party	Catherine Smith, Christine West, Joseph Biddulph, Robert Evans	6,821	0.7	New
	Respect	Helen Griffin, Huw Williams, Raja Gul Raiz, Taran O'Sullivan	5,427	0.6	New
Turnout			917,686	41.4	12.4

Elections in the 1990s

European Election 1999: Wales[29]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Labour	Glenys Kinnock, Eluned Morgan Joe Wilson, Gareth Williams, Jane Hutt	199,690 (99,845)	31.9
	Plaid Cymru	Jill Evans, Eurig Wyn Marc Phillips, Susanna Perkins, Owain Llywelyn	185,235 (92,617.5)	29.6
	Conservative	Jonathan Evans Chris Butler, Owen John Williams, Robert Buckland, Edmund Hayward	142,631	22.8
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Roberts, Peter Price, Alistair Cameron, Juliana Hughes, John Dixon	51,283	8.2
	UKIP	Dai Rees, Niall Warry, Idris Richard Francis, Alan Barham, David Lloyd	19,702	3.1
	Green	Molly Scott Cato, Klaus Armstrong-Braun, Sue Walker, Rachel Kalela, John Matthews	16,146	2.6
	Pro-Euro Conservative	William Powell, Jennifer Harris, Antonio Fernandes-Vidal, Alan Morris, Christopher Hodgkinson	5,834	0.9
	Socialist Labour	Elizabeth Screen, Darren Hickery, Stephen Bell, Miriam Bowen, George Tafarides	4,283	0.7
	Natural Law	David Hughes, Brian Francis, Helen Evans, Andrea Jarman, John Ashforth	1,621	0.3
Turnout			626,425	29.0

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