2014 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

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United Kingdom European Parliament election, 2014

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73 seats to the European Parliament

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	David Cameron	Nigel Farage	Ed Milliband
Party	Conservative	UKIP	Labour
Alliance	ECR	EFD	S&D
Leader since	6 December 2005	12 September 2006	25 September 2010
Last election	26 (including 1 UCUNF)	13 seats	13 seats

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Nick Clegg	Caroline Lucas	Nick Griffin
Party	Liberal Democrats	Green	BNP
Alliance	ALDE	European Greens	NI
Leader since	18 December 2007	5 September 2008	1999
Last election	11 seats	2 seats	2 seats

The European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2013 European Parliament election, the voting for which will be held in June 2014, coinciding with the 2014 local elections in England.

By European Political Group

EP Group		UK Party
rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:European Conservatives and Reformists/meta/color"\|	European Conservatives and Reformists	bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Conservative
bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color"\|	European Conservatives and Reformists	Conservatives and Unionists
bgcolor="Template:Europe of Freedom and Democracy/meta/color"\|	Europe of Freedom and Democracy	bgcolor="Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color"\|	UKIP
bgcolor="Template:Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats/meta/color"\|	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats	bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Labour
bgcolor="Template:Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe/meta/color"\|	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe	bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color"\|	Liberal Democrats
bgcolor="Template:The Greens–European Free Alliance/meta/color" rowspan="3"\|	The Greens–European Free Alliance	bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color"\|	Green Party of England and Wales
BGCOLOR="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"\|		Scottish National Party
bgcolor="Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color"\|		Plaid Cymru
bgcolor="Template:European United Left–Nordic Green Left/meta/color"\|	European United Left-Nordic Green Left	BGCOLOR="Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color"\|	Sinn Féin
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" rowspan="2" colsapn="2"\|	Non-Inscrits	bgcolor="Template:British National Party/meta/color"\|	British National Party
bgcolor="Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color"\|	Non-Inscrits	Democratic Unionist

Constituencies and representation

As has been the case since 1999, the electoral constituencies were based on the government's nine English regions, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, creating a total of 12 constituencies. On 31 July 2007, in line with the required reduction in representation from the United Kingdom, the Electoral Commission recommended reductions in representation from Scotland, and from 5 English regions, resulting in new representation as below, which were first used in 2009:

Constituency	Representation in 2009	Representation in 2014
East Midlands	5	5
East of England	7	7
London	8	8
North East England	3	3
North West England	8	8
South East England	10	10
South West England	6	6
West Midlands	7	7
Yorkshire and the Humber	6	6
Wales	4	4
Scotland	6	6
Northern Ireland	3	3

The recommended changes were approved by the UK Parliament in 2008.

Includes Gibraltar, the only British overseas territory which is part of the European Union.
Due to the Treaty of Lisbon coming into force before the 2014, the UK is entitled to a 73rd MEP. The Electoral Commission performed a reallocation in keeping with the same procedures they used to allocate 72 MEPs and the extra Conservative MEP was allocated to the West Midlands constituency.

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