North West European Region
2014 Election
2014 Results
1. | Theresa Griffin | (Labour) | 594063 | 33.9% (+13.5%) |
2. | Paul Nuttall | (UKIP) | 481932 | 27.5% (+11.7%) |
3. | Jacqueline Foster | (Conservative) | 351985 | 20.1% (-5.5%) |
4. | Afzal Khan | (Labour) | (297032) | |
5. | Louise Bours | (UKIP) | (240966) | |
6. | Julie Ward | (Labour) | (198021) | |
7. | Sajjad Karim | (Conservative) | (175993) | |
8. | Steven Woolfe | (UKIP) | (160644) | |
. | (Green) | 123075 | 7% (-0.7%) | |
. | (Liberal Democrat) | 105487 | 6% (-8.3%) | |
. | (BNP) | 32826 | 1.9% (-6.1%) | |
. | (Independence from Europe) | 25999 | 1.5% (n/a) | |
. | (English Democrats) | 19522 | 1.1% (-1.3%) | |
. | (Pirate) | 8597 | 0.5% (n/a) | |
. | (No2EU) | 5402 | 0.3% (-1.1%) | |
. | (Socialist Equality) | 5067 | 0.3% (n/a) |
Current sitting MEPs

Theresa Griffin (Labour) Educated at Lancaster University. Trade union organiser. Former Liverpool councillor. Contested North West European election 1999, 2004, 2009. MEP for North West since 2014

Paul Nuttall (UKIP) Borm 1976, Liverpool. Educated at Savio High School and Edge Hill University. Former lecturer. Deputy leader of UKIP since 2010. Contested Bootle 2005, 2010, Oldham East and Saddleworth 2011 by-election. MEP for the North West since 2009

Jacqueline Foster (Conservative) Born 1947, Liverpool. Educated at Prescot Girls Grammar. Aviation consultant and former air hostess. Contested Newham South 1992, Peterborough 1997. MEP for the North West 1999-2004 and since 2009

Afzal Khan (Labour) Born 1960, Pakistan. Solicitor. Manchester councillor since 2000. MEP for North West since 2014. Awarded the CBE for services to race relations.

Louise Bours (UKIP) Educated at Mountview Conservatoire for the Performing Arts. Singer and actor. Former Congleton councillor. Contested Cheshire Police Commissioner election 2012. MEP for North West since 2014

Julie Ward (Labour) Born 1957, Ripon. Educated at Newcastle University. Ran a social enterprise providing services for people with mental health problems. MEP for North West since 2014

Sajjad Karim (Conservative) Born 1970, Blackburn. Solicitor. Pendle councillor 1994-2001 for the Liberal Democrats. MEP for the North West since 2004.. Originally elected as a Liberal Democrat, he defected to the Conservatives in 2007.

Steven Woolfe (UKIP) Educated at Aberystwyth University. Barrister. Contested City and East 2012 London Assembly election, Greater Manchester Police Commissioner election 2012. MEP for North West since 2014
Full candidates for the 2014 European election are here.
2009 Election
2009 Results
1. | Robert Atkins | (Conservative) | 423174 | 25.6% (+1.5%) |
2. | Arlene McCarthy | (Labour) | 336831 | 20.4% (-6.9%) |
3. | Paul Nuttall | (UKIP) | 261740 | 15.8% (+3.7%) |
4. | Chris Davies | (Liberal Democrat) | 235639 | 14.3% (-1.6%) |
5. | Saj Karim | (Conservative) | (211587) | |
6. | Brian Simpson | (Labour) | (168416) | |
7. | Jacqueline Foster | (Conservative) | (141058) | |
8. | Nick Griffin | (BNP) | 132194 | 8% (+1.6%) |
. | (Green) | 127133 | 7.7% (+2.1%) | |
. | (English Democrats) | 40027 | 2.4% (+0.8%) | |
. | (Socialist Labour) | 26224 | 1.6% (n/a) | |
. | (Christian) | 25999 | 1.6% (n/a) | |
. | (No2EU) | 23580 | 1.4% (n/a) | |
. | (Jury Team) | 8783 | 0.5% (n/a) | |
. | (Libertas) | 6980 | 0.4% (n/a) | |
. | Francis Apaloo | (Independent) | 3621 | 0.2% (n/a) |
Current sitting MEPs

Robert Atkins (Conservative) Born 1946, London. Educated at Highgate School. Haringey councillor 1968-1977. MP for Preston North 1979-1983, South Ribble from 1983-1997. Knighted in 1997. MEP for North West England since 1999. Minister of Transport 1989-1990, Minister of Sport 1990-1992, Minister of State at Northern Ireland Office 1992-1994, Minister of State, Environment 1994-1995.

Arlene McCarthy (Labour) Born 1960, Belfast. Formerly a European liasion officer for Kirkless council. MEP since 1994.

Paul Nuttall (UKIP) Borm 1976, Liverpool. Educated at Savio High School and Edge Hill University. Former lecturer. Deputy leader of UKIP since 2010. Contested Bootle 2005, 2010, Oldham East and Saddleworth 2011 by-election. MEP for the North West since 2009

Chris Davies (Liberal Democrat) Born 1954, Lytham St Annes. Educated at Cheadle Hulme School and Cambridge University. MP for Littleborough and Saddleworth 1995-1997. Contested Oldham East and Saddleworth 1997. MEP for the North West since 1999. Former leader of the Liberal Democrat group in the European Parliament, he stepped down in 2008 after being criticised over a reply to a constituent that accused her of racism.

Saj Karim (Conservative) Born 1970, Blackburn. Solicitor. Pendle councillor 1994-2001 for the Liberal Democrats. MEP for North West England since 2004, orginally elected as a Liberal Democrat he defected to the Conservatives in 2007.

Brian Simpson (Labour) Born 1953, Leigh. Former PE teacher. Former Warrington councillor and Merseyside county councillor. MEP for Cheshire East 1989-1999, MEP for North-West 1999-2004 when he lost his seat. He returned to the European Parliament in 2006 following the resignation of Terry Wynn.

Jacqueline Foster (Conservative) Born 1947, Liverpool. Educated at Prescot Girls Grammar. Aviation consultant and former air hostess. Contested Newham South 1992, Peterborough 1997. MEP for the North West 1999-2004 and since 2009

Nick Griffin (BNP) Born 1959, London. Educated at Woodbridge School and Cambridge University. Chairman of the BNP. Former publicity officer and Parliamentary candidate for the National Front before leaving the party in 1989. Joined the BNP in 1995 and edited BNP magazines Spearhead and The Rune. In 1998 he was prosecuted for incitement to racial hatred in reation to an issue of The Rune that denied the holocaust. He was again arrested for incitement to racial hatred in 2004 in relation to a speech he made criticising Islam which was recorded by the BBC, he was subsequently found not guilty at trial. Chairman of the BNP since 1999 he has pursued a strategy of giving the BNP a less overtly racist and extremist image. Contested North West Region 2004 European elections. Contested South Wales West in 2007 Welsh assembly elections. Contested Croydon North-West by-election 1981, Croydon North-West 1983 for the National Front. West Bromwich West by-election 2000, Oldham West & Royton 2001, Keighley 2005, Barking 2010 for the BNP.
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The most middle class of the ones mentioned the only where turnout is up.
Shevii, you are right. It is 45.04% turnout. 52.9% was the Remain share in the Referendum. I misread
There are reports of a high turnout in central Edinburgh from former SNP MSP Marco Biagi possibly reaching Holyrood levels. That could benefit LDs and Greens (and possibly SNP in that area)
Also reports of a 48% turnout in Cambridge.
Very interesting. Middle class Remainers making their voices heard in some places.
PT – true, although turnout in middle class areas is ALWAYS higher than WWC ones. All that happened in the Ref is that WWC turnout increased, but it still didn’t level that gap.
shevii – we have had I think 8 NW Councils verifying, but I assume the Lab Cllr was doing so from canvassing and/or postal vote returns ie that 8% is all TR needs.
I voted late yesterday after 9pm, as I didn’t land back into Gatwick until 7.30. Polling station was busy but the age profile was older than I would expect at that time of night, a lot of retired people rather than being dominated by commuters. I conclude that even in my slightly Remain-leaning district it’s quite probable that the turnout skewed a bit towards the Brexit party.
@ Lancs
Don’t you have any gossip from North West?
I’ve not heard anything at all but hearing nothing suggests to me that Robinson probably isn’t close otherwise someone somewhere would be in a funk. Obviously large section of North West haven’t done their verification but enough areas have to get some sort of picture.
Shevii – I do but only rumour. Most Mets haven’t yet sadly.
The facts I have are that areas where Robinson held events have seen an increased turnout (up in Preston, Barrow, Blackpool, Wigan) – but clearly that could be due to both for and antis turning out.
However, there’s a beginning trend that ethnic minority areas have seen a fall in turnout (Rochdale, Rossendale, Chorley, parts of Bury). This is also the case in Tower Hamlets – so perhaps Ramadan and the warm day was a factor.
Local elections in tower hamlets last time around – that will reduce turnout.
The North West had elections in 2014 too (it was 2013 that didn’t). 2014 was dull and chilly however. 2019 was warm and sunny – same as 2009 (in the NW anyway).
Plus most of London has seen an increase in turnout.
Tower Hamlets had both voter fraud and a very contested and bitter local election (50% turnout in 2014). The rest of London in 2014 didn’t have quite as bitter a local election.
2014 was the Mayoral election in Tower Hamlets. They got the highest turnout of any London borough in the Euro.
In 2009 they had a turnout of 30.6% (3 points lower than London average).
The estimated declaration times for each Region are:
Sunday
NE 10.30pm
Yorkshire 11pm
SW 11pm
East Mids 11.30pm
BH Monday
West Mids 12am
NW 12.30am
SE 1am
London 2am
Scotland & NI Monday PM
99% of Scotland will have counted Sunday night – it’s only the western Isles that refuses to count on a Sunday.
Any idea when Wales will declare?
Rumours that Brexit Party have easily won Sefton and the Tories are below 7% within the wards that make up Southport. Also that Tommy Robinson flopped in Sefton and on those figures will not be elected.
Brexit Party expecting 4/8 seats here, Lib Dems 2. Greens one and Labour perhaps just holding on for that last one.
Meanwhile Yaxley-Lennon has conceded he won’t win a seat.
Brexit: 541,843
Labour: 380,193
Lib Dems: 297,507
Greens: 216,581
Conservatives: 131,002
Ukip: 62,464
Change UK: 47,237
Robinson: 38,908
English Democrats: 10,045
UKEUP: 7,125
Aslam Mohammed: 2,002
Elected:
Claire Fox
Henrik Nielsen
David Bull
Theresa Griffin
Julie Ward
Chris Davies
Jane Brophy
Gina Dowding
Britain Elects
Brex: 31.2% – 3 seats
Lab: 21.9% -2 seats
LDem: 17.1% – 2 seats
Grn: 12.5% – 1 seat
Con: 7.6% – 0 seats
UKIP: 3.6% – 0 seats
Labour leads in Liverpool, Knowsley, Manchester, Oldham, Blackburn, Preston
LD leads in South Lakeland, Stockport, Trafford
Brexit leads everywhere else
shevii – our initial thoughts were correct (Robinson polling 2% – 4%)
Although the range was huge (from 0.1% to 14% in wards I’m told).
These were his largest shares: Burnley 4.4%, Rochdale 4.1%, Salford 3.9%, Wigan 3.8% – all where he visited of course.
Knowsley was his top position, coming 5th.
Andrea do you mean Stockport or Southport?
Polltroll
Stockport council area
LD 29.1
Brexir 28.3
Lab 13.5
Green 13.5
Con 6.9
Oh yes, silly me, forgot Southport was part of Sefton rather than its own council area. Just assumed Lib Dems would do well there because it had a Lib Dem MP until recently.
It’s actually a place Lib Dems haven’t done so well recently tgough last night they might have
Sefton was
Brexit 29.8
Lab 26.4
LD 18.7
Greens 11.6
I did read that when they were counting it was easy to tell that the Lib Dems beat Labour in the wards that make up Southport.
@ Lancs
Yes. I think I got carried away with the possibility he was doing better than he actually was but to be fair neither of us had any significant data to go on but I’d still give him the prize for “best” campaign.
I assume there is no data at ward level (you suggested there might be?)
The regeneration of Northern towns issue hasn’t gone away and this has created a far right presence and a growing apathy among voters. It seems to be that whereas the youth voters in the cities are quite engaged in politics, the younger voters from areas of deprivation have just lost interest completely. To some extent this has always been the case but never so pronounced as now.
There’s a big section of society that has been ignored by political decisions for 40 years now- the possible exception being that they were subsidised by New Labour but without the genuine jobs and regeneration to go with it. Money went into education but it was too academically focused.
As someone who believes politics can change things it is very disappointing to have either self-disenfranchised people or people who respond to dog whistle politics.
shevii – yes, I’ve seen results by ward, ie the Brexit Party won every one in Wigan, beating Labour by 2:1.
I doubt most councils will publish these – although I hear some are making available the results by constituency (as they did in the NW in 1999, 2004 & 2009).
Re Robinson, apparently he got c 4% on the day but <1% in the postal vote (which mirrors the 1% in the rural areas he didn't visit). The highest % I saw was 10% in a Merseyside PD, so as suspected his support was v concentrated and polarised.
Robinson would’ve been far better off standing in the Peterborough by-election, which is genuinely local for him and has some of the ingredients he needs to do well.
Carpet bagging up to the north west in the kind of election where stand-alone independents always get swamped was a complete fool’s errand.