The 2019 European Parliament election for the election of the
delegation from the
United Kingdom was held on
23 May 2019 . These were the last elections to the
European Parliament to be held before
Brexit .
Only constituencies in
Great Britain used
party-list proportional representation , as in
Northern Ireland the
single transferable vote system is used.
The
Brexit Party was newly founded for the
2019 European Parliament election .
[1] On 8 February 2019, party leader
Nigel Farage stated he would stand as a candidate for the party in any potential
future European Parliament elections contested in the United Kingdom.
[2]
[3] MEPs
Steven Woolfe and
Nathan Gill , also formerly of UKIP, stated that they would also stand for the party.
[4]
[5]
The
Brexit Party had a list of 7 candidates for the 7 seats available in the
East of England .
[6] The top three were elected.
#
Candidate
Occupation
Elected
1
Richard Tice
Businessman and Brexit Party Party Chair
[7]
Y
2
Michael Heaver
Former chair of UKIP youth wing and press aide
[8]
Y
3
June Mummery
Businesswoman in the fishing industry
[9]
Y
4
Paul Hearn
N
5
Priscilla Huby
N
6
Sean Lever
N
7
Edmund Fordham
N
The
Brexit Party had a list of 5 candidates for the 5 seats available in the
East Midlands . The top three were elected.
[10]
The
Brexit Party had a list of 10 candidates for the 10 seats available in the
South East of England .
[6] The top four were elected.
The party announced on 23 April that it would stand a full slate of candidates in Great Britain for the
European Parliament elections , including Ashworth, writer
Rachel Johnson (sister of Conservative MPs
Jo and
Boris Johnson ); former BBC journalist
Gavin Esler ;
[25] former Conservative MPs
Stephen Dorrell and
Neil Carmichael ; former Labour MEP
Carole Tongue ; former Labour MPs
Roger Casale and
Jon Owen Jones ; former Liberal Democrat MEP
Diana Wallis ;
[26] and the former deputy Prime Minister of Poland
Jacek Rostowski .
[27] None of the Change UK candidates won any seats.
Ali Sadjady Naiery, a
mixed martial arts fighter and former Conservative Party candidate for
Ealing Borough Council , was originally placed sixth on Change UK's London list, but withdrew and was replaced after he was found to have made a tweet saying that
Romanian
pickpockets on the
London Underground made him want Brexit.
[28]
[29]
[30]
#
Candidate
[33]
Occupation
Elected
1
David Macdonald
Independent councillor on
East Renfrewshire Council
[34]
N
2
Kate Forman
N
3
Peter Griffiths
N
4
Heather Astbury
N
5
Colin McFadyen
N
6
Cathy Edgeworth
N
Green Party of England and Wales
The
Green Party of England and Wales fielded candidates in every constituency in England and Wales.
[48]
#
Candidate
Notes
Elected
1
Kat Boettge
Green Party candidate for
Broxtowe Borough Council in
2019 .
N
2
Gerhard Lohmann-Bond
N
3
Liam McClelland
N
4
Daniel Wimberley
N
5
Simon Tooke
N
#
Candidate
Notes
Elected
1
Anthony Slaughter
Leader of the
Wales Green Party .
N
2
Ian Chandler
N
3
Ceri Davies
N
4
Duncan Rees
Co-Deputy leader of the Wales Green Party.
N
The
Labour Party stood candidates in all constituencies in
Great Britain .
[61]
The
Labour Party had a list of 10 candidates for the 10 seats available in the
South East of England .
The
Scottish National Party stood 6 candidates for all the seats in
Scotland .
[77]
#
Candidate
[22]
Occupation
Elected
1
Lawrence Webb
N
2
Carl Benjamin
Anti-feminist YouTuber and political commentator
N
3
Tony McIntyre
N
4
Lester Taylor
N
5
Stephen Lee
N
6
Alison Sheridan
N
Plaid Cymru , the party of Wales, only contested the
Wales constituency .
Northern Ireland has a different party system to Great Britain and used the
single transferable vote rather than the party list system to elect 3 MEPs.
[81] This meant the party list included one candidate per party for the three seats available.
[82] There were 11 candidates:
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