2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

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All 72 of the United Kingdom's seats in the European Parliament
Turnout	34.7%[1] 3.8%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Timothy Kirkhope Nigel Farage Glenis Willmott Party Conservative UKIP Labour Alliance ECR EFD S&D Leader since 18 November 2008 12 September 2006 18 January 2009 Leader's seat Yorkshire and the Humber South East England East Midlands Last election 27 seats, 25.9% 12 seats, 15.6% 19 seats, 21.9% Seats before 25‡ 12‡ 18‡ Seats won 26† 13 13 Seat change 1* 1* 5* Popular vote 4,281,286† 2,498,226 2,381,760 Percentage 27.4% 16.0% 15.2% Swing 1.0% 0.4% 6.6%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Graham Watson Caroline Lucas Nick Griffin Party Liberal Democrats Green BNP Alliance ALDE European Greens NI Leader since January 2002 5 September 2008 27 September 1999 Leader's seat South West England South East England North West England Last election 12 seats, 14.4% 2 seats, 2.8% 0 seats, 0.0% Seats before 10‡ 2‡ 0‡ Seats won 11 2 2 Seat change 1* 2* Popular vote 2,080,613 1,223,303 943,598 Percentage 13.3% 7.8% 6.2% Swing 1.1% 2.2% 1.3%   Seventh party   Leader Alex Salmond Party SNP Alliance European Free Alliance Leader since 3 September 2004 Leader's seat N/A Last election 2 seats, 1.4% Seats before 2 Seats won 2 Seat change Popular vote 321,007 Percentage 2.1 Swing 0.7
Map of the results indicating the seats won in each region by party *Seat change has been adjusted to allow for direct comparison with the results from the 2004 election.[2] †(including 1 UCUNF) ‡Notional results
Leader of Largest Party before election David Cameron Conservative Subsequent Leader of Largest Party David Cameron Conservative

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The 2009 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2009 European Parliament election, the voting for which was held on Thursday 4 June 2009. The election was held concurrently with the 2009 local elections in England. In total, 72 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.

The election was won by the Conservative Party who won 27 seats in the election with a share of 27.9% of the national vote and this would be the last European election in the United Kingdom where either the Conservatives or Labour would finish in first place. Other notable outcomes were that the Labour Party – which came third – suffered a significant drop in support, and that the UK Independence Party (UKIP) finished second in a major election for the first time in its history, coming level with Labour in terms of seats but ahead of it in terms of votes. This was the first time in British electoral history that a party in government had been outpolled in a national election by a party with no representation in the House of Commons. The British National Party (BNP) also won two seats, its first ever in a nationwide election.^[3] It also marked the first time the Scottish National Party (SNP) won the largest share of the European election vote in Scotland,^[4] and the first time Labour had failed to come first in a Welsh election since 1918.^[5] It was the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)'s worst ever European election result, and also the first time an Irish Republican party, Sinn Féin, topped the polls in Northern Ireland.^[6]