| Wales European Parliament constituency |
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| Created | 1999 |
| MEP(s) | 5 (1999 - 2004) 4 (2004 - present) |
| Member State | United Kingdom |
| Source(s) | [1][2] |
Wales is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 4 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
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The constituency corresponds to the country of Wales, one of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom.
It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Mid and West Wales, North Wales, South Wales Central, South Wales East, and South Wales West.
| MEP's Name | Political Party | |
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| Jill Evans | Plaid Cymru | |
| Jonathan Evans | Conservative | |
| Glenys Kinnock | Labour | |
| Eluned Morgan | Labour | |
| Eurig Wyn | Plaid Cymru |
| MEP's Name | Political Party | |
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| Jill Evans | Plaid Cymru | |
| Jonathan Evans | Conservative | |
| Glenys Kinnock | Labour | |
| Eluned Morgan | Labour |
| MEP's Name | Political Party | |
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| John Bufton | UK Independence | |
| Jill Evans | Plaid Cymru | |
| Kay Swinburne | Conservative | |
| Derek Vaughan | Labour |
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Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.
| European Election 2009: Wales[1][2] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Kay Swinburne, Evan Price, Emma Greenow, David Chipp | 145,193 | 21.2 | +1.8 | |
| Labour | Derek Vaughan, Lisa Stevens, Rachel Maycock, Leighton Veale | 138,852 | 20.3 | -12.2 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans, Eurig Wyn, Ioan Bellin, Natasha Asghar | 126,702 | 18.5 | +1.1 | |
| UKIP | John Bufton, David Bevan, Kevin Mahoney, David Rowlands | 87,585 | 12.8 | +2.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Alan Butt Phillip, Kevin O'Connor, Nick Tregoning, Jackie Radford | 73,082 | 10.7 | +0.2 | |
| Green | Jake Griffiths, Kay Roney, Ann Were, John Matthews | 38,160 | 5.6 | +2.0 | |
| BNP | Ennys Hughes, Laurence Read, Clive Bennett, Kevin Edwards | 37,114 | 5.4 | +2.5 | |
| Christian Party | Jeffrey Green, David Griffiths, Alun Owen, John Harrold | 13,037 | 1.9 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Robert English, Richard Booth, Liz Screen, Judith Sambrook | 12,402 | 1.8 | N/A | |
| NO2EU | Robert Griffiths, Rob Williams, Laura Picand, Trevor Jones | 8,600 | 1.3 | N/A | |
| Jury Team | Paul Sabanskis, James Eustace, Neil Morgan, Steven Partridge | 3,793 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 684,520 | 30.4 | -11.0 | ||
| European Election 2004: Wales[3] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Glenys Kinnock, Eluned Morgan, Gareth Williams, Gwennan Jeremiah | 297,810 (148,905) | 32.5 | +0.6 | |
| Conservative | Jonathan Evans, Owen Williams, Felicity Elphick, Albert Fox | 177,771 | 19.4 | −3.3 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans, Jon Blackwood, Eilian Williams, Gwenllian Lansdowne | 159,888 | 17.4 | −12.2 | |
| UKIP | David Rowlands, Clive Easton, Elizabeth Phillips, Timothy Jenkins | 96,677 | 10.5 | +7.4 | |
| Liberal Democrat | David John Williams, Alison Goldsworthy, Nicholas Tregoning, Nilmini Priyanga de Silva | 96,116 | 10.5 | +2.3 | |
| Green | Martyn Shrewsbury, Molly Scott Cato, David Bradney, Dorienne Robinson | 32,761 | 3.6 | +1.0 | |
| BNP | John Walker, Pauline Gregory, James Roberts, Mark Stringfellow[4] | 27,135 | 3.0 | N/A | |
| Forward Wales | Ron Davies, Wendy Paintsil, Janet Williams, Graham Jones | 17,280 | 1.9 | N/A | |
| Christian Democratic Party | Catherine Smith, Christine West, Joseph Biddulph, Robert Evans | 6,821 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Respect | Helen Griffin, Huw Williams, Raja Gul Raiz, Taran O'Sullivan | 5,427 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 917,686 | 41.4 | +12.4 | ||
| European Election 1999: Wales[5] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Glenys Kinnock, Eluned Morgan, Joe Wilson, Gareth Williams, Jane Hutt | 199,690 (99,845) | 31.9 | N/A | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans, Eurig Wyn, Marc Phillips, Susanna Perkins, Owain Llywelyn | 185,235 (92,617.5) | 29.6 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Jonathan Evans, Chris Butler, Owen John Williams, Robert Buckland, Edmund Hayward | 142,631 | 22.8 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrat | Roger Roberts, Peter Price, Alistair Cameron, Juliana Hughes, John Dixon | 51,283 | 8.2 | N/A | |
| UKIP | Dai Rees, Niall Warry, Idris Richard Francis, Alan Barham, David Lloyd | 19,702 | 3.1 | N/A | |
| Green | Molly Scott Cato, Klaus Armstrong-Braun, Sue Walker, Rachel Kalela, John Matthews | 16,146 | 2.6 | N/A | |
| Pro-Euro Conservative | William Powell, Jennifer Harris, Antonio Fernandes-Vidal, Alan Morris, Christopher Hodgkinson | 5,834 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Elizabeth Screen, Darren Hickery, Stephen Bell, Miriam Bowen, George Tafarides | 4,283 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | David Hughes, Brian Francis, Helen Evans, Andrea Jarman, John Ashforth | 1,621 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 626,425 | 29.0 | N/A | ||
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