European Parliament election, 2014 (United Kingdom)

European Parliament election in United Kingdom, 2014

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All 73 United Kingdom seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	35.6% 0.9%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Nigel Farage Ed Miliband David Cameron Party UKIP Labour Conservative Alliance EFDD S&D ECR Leader since 5 November 2010 25 September 2010 6 December 2005 Last election 13 seats 13 seats 26 seats Seats won 24 20 19 Seat change 11 7 7 Popular vote 4,376,635 4,020,646 3,792,549 Percentage 26.6% 24.4% 23.1% Swing 10.6% 9.2% 3.8%
Leader of Largest Party before election David Cameron Conservative Subsequent Leader of Largest Party Nigel Farage UKIP

David Cameron
Conservative

Nigel Farage
UKIP

The United Kingdom's component of the 2014 European Parliament election was held on Thursday 22 May 2014, coinciding with the 2014 local elections in England and Northern Ireland. In total, 73 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation. England, Scotland and Wales use a closed-list party list system of PR (with the D'Hondt method), while Northern Ireland used the single transferable vote (STV).

Most of the results of the election were announced after 10pm on Sunday 25 May (Although Scotland didn't declare its result until the following day), after voting closed throughout the 28 member states of the European Union. Given the subsequent Leave vote in the 23 June 2016 referendum, it seems highly likely that this will be the last time the United Kingdom participated in a European Parliament election.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) came top of the poll – the first time a political party other than the Labour Party or Conservative Party has won the popular vote in a British election since the 1906 general election winning 26.6% of the national vote and 24 seats overall from every region apart from Northern Ireland and also won the highest vote share in 168 council areas with the highest local council vote share recorded in Boston in Lincolnshire where they won 51.6% of the vote share although it was the only council area in the United Kingdom where they won more than half the vote. It is also the first time a party other than the Labour and Conservatives won the largest number of seats in a national election since the December 1910 general election.

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