European Parliament elections 2019 May 27, 2019
Three of the Yorkshire and Humber representatives in the European Parliament will be politicians from the Brexit Party. Making up the region's six MEPs will be one representaive each from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Green parties.
The results of the Thursday voting were announced on the evening of Sunday May 26.
Constituencies in the European election are based on regions, with Huddersfield in the Government's Yorkshire and Humber region where 6 MEPs are elected.
The Brexit Party had 470,351 votes across the Government region, Labour were second (210,516), closely followed by the Liberal Democrats (200,180) and Green Party (166,980). The Conservatives were in fifth place (92,863). Other votes went to UKIP (56,100), The Yorkshire Party (50,842), Change UK (30,162) and English Democrats (11,283).
Voting figures in the Kirklees district saw Brexit Party politicians take the lead with just over one-third of the vote (35,843), Labour came in second (25,435), the Liberal Democrats third (14,845), the Green Party fourth (10,935) and Conservatives fifth (6,820). Other parties in the election were UKIP (4,076), The Yorkshire Party (3,967), Change UK (2,103) and English Democrats (872).
Voting took place on Thursday to decide on MEPs who will provide representation for Yorkshire and the rest of the UK in the European Parliament for a five-year term or while the UK remains a member of the European Union.
A total of 73 MEPs are elected from the UK, nearly one-tenth of the 751 MEPs elected across the 28 member states of the EU.
The UK MEPs elected to the European Parliament are:
MEPs are elected through proportional representation with winning candidates selected from ordered lists drawn up by their respective parties, depending on votes cast for those parties.
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