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2004 election

The European Parliament election, 2004 was the UK part of the European Parliament election, 2004. It was the first European election to be held in the United Kingdom using postal-only voting in four areas. It coincided with local and regional elections.

The Conservative Party and the Labour Party both polled poorly. The Conservatives, although getting a vote share of 4.1 than Labour, but this result is their lowest vote share in a national elections since 1832. Labour vote share was it lowest since 1918. Labour's decline in votes was regarded to be heavily due to widespread public disatification about the Iraq War and as with the Conservatives, the increased popularity of the United Kingdom Independence Party.

The United Kingdom Independence Party did exceptionally well, and managed to increase its number of MEPs from 3 to 12. The received a very large increase in media coverage before the elections, partly because of the appointment of Robert Kilroy-Silk as a candidate also the actress Joan Collins, who became a member and annouced her support for the party. Other minor parties also posted gains.

In Northern Ireland, as expected, Sinn Féin beat the SDLP in the polls and took its first Northern Ireland seat. This concided with it winning a seat in the corresponding elections in the Republic.

Table of contents

1 Results

2 Members returned

2.1 East Midlands
2.2 East of England
2.3 London
2.4 North East England
2.5 North West England
2.6 Northern Ireland
2.7 Scotland
2.8 South East England
2.9 South West England
2.10 Wales
2.11 West Midlands
2.12 Yorkshire and the Humber

Party	Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
Conservative Party	4,397,090	26.7	-9.0	27	-8
Labour Party	3,718,683	22.6	-5.4	19	-6
UK Independence Party	2,650,768	16.1	+9.2	12	+10
Liberal Democrats	2,452,327	14.9	+2.3	12	+2
Green Party	1,033,093	6.3	0.0	2	0
British National Party	808,200	4.9	+3.9	0	0
Scottish National Party	231,505	1.4	-1.3	2	0
Democratic Unionist Party	175,761	1.0	-0.8	1	0
Plaid Cymru	159,888	1.0	-0.9	1	0
Sinn Fein	144,541	0.8	+0.5	1	+1
Ulster Unionist Party	91,164	0.5	-0.3	1	0
Social Democratic and Labour Party	87,559	00.5	-0.4	0	-1
Others	1,170,737	11.6
Total	17,028,947

Results

Members returned

North East England

North West England

South East England

South West England

Party Leaders in June 2004

See also

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