European Movement Annual General Meeting                              Birmingham, 12 September 2009                                                                                                                                                             Click here for more information      

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On 4th of June 2009, British citizens as well as all the other European citizens living and registered in the UK were invited to participate in the European Parliamentary elections and to choose their European representatives.

Turnout of the 2009 European elections in the UK: 34.48%

To see the turnout of the previous European elections, click here

Results by national parties:

Conservatives: 27.7% → 25 MEPs elected

United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP): 16.5% → 13 MEPs elected

Labour: 15.7% → 13 MEPs elected

Liberal Democrats (LibDems): 13.7% → 11 MEPs elected

Greens: 8.6% → 2 MEPs elected

British National Party (BNP): 6.2% → 2 MEPs elected

Scottish National Party (SNP): 2.1% → 2 MEPs elected

Plaid Cymru: 0.8% → 1 MEP elected

Sinn Féin: 1 MEP elected

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP): 1 MEP elected

Ulster Conservatives and Unionists - New Force (UUP): 1 MEP elected

Provisional results by European political groups:

EPP-ED, Group of the European People's Party (Christians Democrats) and European Democrats

PES, Socialist Group (includes the Labour party)

ALDE, Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (includes the Liberal Democrats)

UEN, Union  for Europe of the Nations Group

Greens/EFA, Group of the Greens - European Free Alliance (includes the Greens, the SNP and Plaid Cymru)

GUE/NGL, Confederal Group of the United European Left - Nordic Green Left (includes the Sinn Féin)

IND/DEM, Independence/Democracy Group (includes UKIP)

NI, Non-attached members (includes the Conservatives, the BNP, the DUP and the UUP)

Seats: 29

To see the results of the 2004 European elections, click here

Find out who your new MEPs are:

72 MEPs have been elected in the UK. The UK is divided in 12 electoral regions, each region has a number of MEPs which is proportional to its number of inhabitants and its size:

East Midlands has 5 MEPs; East of England has 7 MEPs; London has 8 MEPs; North East has 3 MEPs; North West has 8 MEPs; Northen Ireland has 3 MEPs; Scotland has 6 MEPs; South East has 10 MEPs; South West has 6 MEPs; Wales has 4 MEPs; West Midlands has 6 MEPs; Yorshire and the Humber has 6 MEPs.

To see who your new MEPs are, click here

From 4th to 7th June, 375 millions of European voters had the right to make their voice heard and to choose what kind of Europe they want for the next 5 years.

Turnout of the 2009 European elections in the EU: 43.07 %

To see the turnout of the previous European elections, click here

Provisional results by European political groups:

EPP-ED, Group of the European People's Party (Christians Democrats) and European Democrats

PES, Socialist Group in the European Parliament

ALDE, Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

UEN, Union  for Europe of the Nations Group

Greens/EFA, Group of the Greens - European Free Alliance

GUE/NGL, Confederal Group of the United European Left - Nordic Green Left

IND/DEM, Independence/Democracy Group

NI, Non-attached members

Seats: 93

To see the results of the 2004 European elections, click here

         Let's see what Europe has ever done for us!  

                   Let's participate in the debates!

DEMOCRACY - DIALOGUE - DEBATE

“The European Union is more important to Britain than ever, which means that the European Movement is too.  The case for Europe needs to be put loud and clear. Join me in the European Movement to put the pro-European case.”

Rt Hon Charles Kennedy MP, president of the European Movement