South East England (European Parliament constituency)
South East England was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 10 Members of the European Parliament using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Boundaries
The constituency corresponded to South East England, in the south east of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex.History
It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East, East Sussex and Kent South, Hampshire North and Oxford, Itchen, Test and Avon, Kent East, Kent West, South Downs West, Surrey, Sussex South and Crawley, Thames Valley, Wight and Hampshire South, and parts of Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes, Cotswolds, and London South and Surrey East.| MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999 | MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999 | MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999 | MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999 | MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999 | MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999 | MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999 | MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999 | MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999 | MEPs for former South East England constituencies, 1979 – 1999 |
| Election | 1979 – 1984 | 1984 – 1989 | 1989 – 1994 | 1994 – 1999 | |||||
| Sussex East East Sussex and Kent South | Jack Stewart-Clark Conservative | Jack Stewart-Clark Conservative | Jack Stewart-Clark Conservative | Jack Stewart-Clark Conservative | Jack Stewart-Clark Conservative | Jack Stewart-Clark Conservative | Jack Stewart-Clark Conservative | ||
| Hampshire West Hampshire Central Itchen, Test and Avon | Basil de Ferranti Conservative | Basil de Ferranti Conservative | Basil de Ferranti Conservative | Edward Kellett-Bowman Conservative | Edward Kellett-Bowman Conservative | Edward Kellett-Bowman Conservative | |||
| Kent East | Christopher Jackson Conservative | Christopher Jackson Conservative | Christopher Jackson Conservative | Christopher Jackson Conservative | Christopher Jackson Conservative | Mark Watts Labour | |||
| Kent West | Ben Patterson Conservative | Ben Patterson Conservative | Ben Patterson Conservative | Ben Patterson Conservative | Ben Patterson Conservative | Peter Skinner Labour | |||
| Surrey Surrey West | Charles Wellesley Conservative | Charles Wellesley Conservative | Charles Wellesley Conservative | Tom Spencer Conservative | Tom Spencer Conservative | Tom Spencer Conservative | |||
| Sussex West Sussex South and Crawley | Madron Seligman Conservative | Madron Seligman Conservative | Madron Seligman Conservative | Madron Seligman Conservative | Madron Seligman Conservative | Brendan Donnelly Conservative Pro-Euro Conservative | |||
| Thames Valley | Diana Elles Conservative | Diana Elles Conservative | Diana Elles Conservative | John Stevens Conservative Pro-Euro Conservative | John Stevens Conservative Pro-Euro Conservative | John Stevens Conservative Pro-Euro Conservative | |||
| Wight and Hampshire East Wight and Hampshire South | Stanley Johnson Conservative | Richard Simmonds Conservative | Richard Simmonds Conservative | Richard Simmonds Conservative | Roy Perry Conservative | ||||
| Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East | Seat not established | Seat not established | James Elles Conservative | James Elles Conservative | James Elles Conservative | James Elles Conservative | James Elles Conservative | ||
| Hampshire North and Oxford | Seat not established | Seat not established | Seat not established | Seat not established | Seat not established | Seat not established | Graham Mather Conservative | ||
| South Downs West | Seat not established | Seat not established | Seat not established | Seat not established | Seat not established | Seat not established | James Provan Conservative |