# Party lists in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

The 2019 European Parliament election for the election of the delegation from the United Kingdom was held on 23 May 2019. These were the last elections to the European Parliament to be held before Brexit.
Only constituencies in Great Britain used party-list proportional representation, as in Northern Ireland the single transferable vote system is used.

## Constituencies

12 European Parliament constituencies were used, each electing a different number of MEPs based on population:
* East Midlands (5)
* East of England (7)
* London (8)
* Northern Ireland (3)
* North East England (3)
* North West England (8)
* Scotland (6)
* South East England (10)
* South West England (6)
* West Midlands (7)
* Wales (4)
* Yorkshire and the Humber (6)

## Brexit Party

The Brexit Party was newly founded for the 2019 European Parliament election. On 8 February 2019, party leader Nigel Farage stated he would stand as a candidate for the party in any potential future European Parliament elections contested in the United Kingdom. MEPs Steven Woolfe and Nathan Gill, also formerly of UKIP, stated that they would also stand for the party.

### East of England

The Brexit Party had a list of 7 candidates for the 7 seats available in the East of England. The top three were elected.
| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Richard Tice | Businessman and Brexit Party Party Chair | Y |
| 2 | Michael Heaver | Former chair of UKIP youth wing and press aide | Y |
| 3 | June Mummery | Businesswoman in the fishing industry | Y |
| 4 | Paul Hearn | | N |
| 5 | Priscilla Huby | | N |
| 6 | Sean Lever | | N |
| 7 | Edmund Fordham | | N |

### East Midlands

The Brexit Party had a list of 5 candidates for the 5 seats available in the East Midlands. The top three were elected.
| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Annunziata Rees-Mogg | Journalist | Y |
| 2 | Jonathan Bullock | Incumbent MEP since 2017 | Y |
| 3 | Matthew Patten | Councillor and charity executive | Y |
| 4 | Tracy Knowles | Nominating officer of the Brexit Party | N |
| 5 | Anna Bailey | Doctor | N |

### South East England

The Brexit Party had a list of 10 candidates for the 10 seats available in the South East of England. The top four were elected.
| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Nigel Paul Farage | Incumbent MEP since 1999 Former Leader of UKIP Leader of the Brexit Party | Y |
| 2 | Alexandra Lesley Phillips | Former head of media of UKIP | Y |
| 3 | Robert Andrew Rowland | Businessman | Y |
| 4 | Belinda Claire de Camborne Lucy | Brexit Activist | Y |
| 5 | James Gilbert Bartholomew | Journalist | N |
| 6 | Christopher Graham Ellis | Businessman | N |
| 7 | John Kennedy | Businessman | N |
| 8 | Matthew Peter Taylor | Businessman | N |
| 9 | George Thomas Stahel Farmer | Hedge fund employee | N |
| 10 | Peter David Wiltshire | Businessman | N |

### South West England

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Ann Widdecombe | Former Conservative MP for Maidstone and The Weald | Y |
| 2 | James Glancy | Television presenter and conservationist | Y |
| 3 | Christina Jordan | Nurse and charity worker | Y |
| 4 | Ann Tarr | Consultant. | N |
| 5 | Roger Lane-Nott | Former Royal Navy officer | N |
| 6 | Nicola Darke | Yoga instructor. | N |

## Change UK

The party announced on 23 April that it would stand a full slate of candidates in Great Britain for the European Parliament elections, including Ashworth, writer Rachel Johnson (sister of Conservative MPs Jo and Boris Johnson); former BBC journalist Gavin Esler; former Conservative MPs Stephen Dorrell and Neil Carmichael; former Labour MEP Carole Tongue; former Labour MPs Roger Casale and Jon Owen Jones; former Liberal Democrat MEP Diana Wallis; and the former deputy Prime Minister of Poland Jacek Rostowski. None of the Change UK candidates won any seats.

### London

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Gavin Esler | journalist, television presenter and author. Former presenter of BBC Two's flagship political analysis programme Newsnight | N |
| 2 | Jacek Rostowski | Former Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland | N |
| 3 | Carole Tongue | Former Labour MEP for London East and former Deputy Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party | N |
| 4 | Annabel Mullin | Consultant associated with the Renew Party | N |
| 5 | Karen Newman | Vice-chair of Liberal Judaism | N |
| 6 | Nora Mulready | Charity CEO | N |
| 7 | Jessica Simor | Lawyer | N |
| 8 | Haseeb Ur-Rehman | Lawyer associated with the Renew Party | N |
Ali Sadjady Naiery, a mixed martial arts fighter and former Conservative Party candidate for Ealing Borough Council, was originally placed sixth on Change UK's London list, but withdrew and was replaced after he was found to have made a tweet saying that Romanian pickpockets on the London Underground made him want Brexit.

### South East England

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Richard Ashworth | Incumbent Change UK MEP, elected as a Conservative. Former Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament | N |
| 2 | Victoria Groulef | Labour Party candidate for Reading West at the 2015 general election | N |
| 3 | Warren Morgan | Former Labour member of Brighton and Hove City Council for East Brighton | N |
| 4 | Eleanor Fuller | | N |
| 5 | Robin Bextor | Film and television producer | N |
| 6 | Eleanor Fuller | | N |
| 7 | Nicholas Mazzei | | N |
| 8 | Suzana Carp | Environmental campaigner | N |
| 9 | Heather Allen | | N |
| 10 | Diane Yeo | | N |

### South West England

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Rachel Johnson | Journalist, television presenter and author. Sister of Boris Johnson. | N |
| 2 | Jim Godfrey | | N |
| 3 | Ollie Middleton | | N |
| 4 | Matthew Hooberman | | N |
| 5 | Liz Sewell | | N |
| 6 | Crispin Hunt | Musician and former member of Longpigs | N |

### Scotland

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | David Macdonald | Independent councillor on East Renfrewshire Council | N |
| 2 | Kate Forman | | N |
| 3 | Peter Griffiths | | N |
| 4 | Heather Astbury | | N |
| 5 | Colin McFadyen | | N |
| 6 | Cathy Edgeworth | | N |
West Midlands (7)
Wales (4)

### Yorkshire and the Humber

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Diana Wallis | Former Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament | N |
| 2 | Juliet Lodge | | N |
| 3 | Sophia Bow | | N |
| 4 | Joshua Malkin | | N |
| 5 | Rosanne McMullen | | N |
| 6 | Steven Wilson | | N |

## Conservative Party
### South East England

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Daniel Hannan | Incumbent MEP, journalist, author and politician. Founder of Vote Leave | Y |
| 2 | Nirj Deva | Incumbent MEP and former MP for Brentford and Isleworth | N |
| 3 | Richard Robinson | Chairman of Surrey Heath Conservatives. | N |
| 4 | Mike Whiting | Member of Swale District Council. | N |
| 5 | Juliette Ash | Conservative candidate for Pontypridd at the 2017 general election | N |
| 6 | Anna Firth | Member of Sevenoaks District Council for Brasted, Chevening and Sundridge. Conservative candidate for Erith and Thamesmead at the 2015 general election | N |
| 7 | Adrian Pepper [Wikidata] | Consultant. | N |
| 8 | Clarence Mitchell [de] | Journalist, member of Reading Borough Council and former Conservative candidate for Brighton Pavilion at the 2015 general election. | N |
| 9 | Neva Novaky [Wikidata] | Secretary-General of the European Conservatives and Reformists group on the European Committee of the Regions | N |
| 10 | Caroline Newton [Wikidata] | Member of South Oxfordshire District Council | N |

### South West England

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Ashley Fox | Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament since 2014. | N |
| 2 | James Mustoe | Member of Cornwall Council for Mevagissey. | N |
| 3 | Faye Purbrick | Cabinet member on Somerset County Council. | N |
| 4 | Claire Hiscott | Member of Bristol City Council. | N |
| 5 | James Taghdissian | Former Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Cardiff West at the 2015 general election, and Exeter at the 2017 general election. | N |
| 6 | Emmeline Owens | Member of Wandsworth London Borough Council. | N |

### Yorkshire and the Humber

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | John Procter | Incumbent Member of the European Parliament | N |
| 2 | Amjad Bashir | Incumbent Member of the European Parliament | N |
| 3 | Michael Naughton [Wikidata] | | N |
| 4 | Andrew Lee [Wikidata] | | N |
| 5 | Matthew Freckleton | Tech entrepreneur. | N |
| 6 | Sue Pascoe [Wikidata] | | N |

## English Democrats

The English Democrats fielded candidates in every constituency in England.

### Yorkshire and the Humber

| # | Candidate | Elected |
| 1 | David Allen | N |
| 2 | Tony Allen | N |
| 3 | Joanne Allen | N |
| 4 | Fiona Allen | N |

## Green Party of England and Wales

The Green Party of England and Wales fielded candidates in every constituency in England and Wales.

### East Midlands

| # | Candidate | Notes | Elected |
| 1 | Kat Boettge | Green Party candidate for Broxtowe Borough Council in 2019. | N |
| 2 | Gerhard Lohmann-Bond | | N |
| 3 | Liam McClelland | | N |
| 4 | Daniel Wimberley | | N |
| 5 | Simon Tooke | | N |

### East of England

| # | Candidate | Notes | Elected |
| 1 | Catherine Rowett | Professor of Philosophy at University of East Anglia. | Y |
| 2 | Rupert Read | | N |
| 3 | Martin Schmierer | | N |
| 4 | Fiona Radic | | N |
| 5 | Paul Jeater | Parish councillor and former candidate for Braintree (in 2015) and Brentwood and Ongar (in 2017). | N |
| 6 | Pallavi Devulapalli | General practitioner. | N |
| 7 | Jeremy Caddick | Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. | N |

### London

| # | Candidate | Notes | Elected |
| 1 | Scott Ainslie | Member of Lambeth Council. | Y |
| 2 | Gulnar Hasnain | | N |
| 3 | Shahrar Ali | Former Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales | N |
| 4 | Rachel Collinson | | N |
| 5 | Eleanor Margolies | Academic | N |
| 6 | Remco van der Stoep | | N |
| 7 | Kirsten de Keyser | | N |
| 8 | Peter Underwood | | N |

### North East England

| # | Candidate | Notes | Elected |
| 1 | Rachel Featherstone | University lecturer at Teesside University. | N |
| 2 | Jonathan Elmer | Councillor and Green Party prospective parliamentary candidate for City of Durham in 2015, 2017 and 2019. | N |
| 3 | Dawn Furness | Filmmaker and Green Party prospective parliamentary candidate for Blyth Valley in 2015 and 2017. | N |

### North West England

| # | Candidate | Notes | Elected |
| 1 | Gina Dowding | Member of Lancashire County Council since 2013 and member of Lancaster City Council since 2019. | Y |
| 2 | Wendy Olsen | | N |
| 3 | Jessica Northey | | N |
| 4 | Geraldine Coggins | | N |
| 5 | Rosie Mills | | N |
| 6 | Astrid Johnson | | N |
| 7 | Daniel Jerrome | | N |
| 8 | James Booth | | N |

### South East England

| # | Candidate | Notes | Elected |
| 1 | Alexandra Phillips | Green candidate for Brighton Kemptown in 2019, Green list candidate for South East England in 2014, candidate for GPEW deputy leader in 2012. | Y |
| 2 | Elise Benjamin | | N |
| 3 | Vix Lowthion | | N |
| 4 | Leslie Groves Williams | | N |
| 5 | Phelim Mac Cafferty | | N |
| 6 | Jan Doerfel | | N |
| 7 | Larry Sanders | Former Health and Social Care Spokesperson of the Green Party of England and Wales. Older brother of Bernie Sanders. | N |
| 8 | Isabella Moir | | N |
| 9 | Oliver Sykes | | N |
| 10 | Jonathan Essex | | N |

### South West England

| # | Candidate | Notes | Elected |
| 1 | Molly Scott Cato | Economist and academic, Green candidate for Bristol West in 2017. Incumbent MEP since 2014. | Y |
| 2 | Cleo Lake | | N |
| 3 | Carla Denyer | Member of Bristol City Council, future Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales | N |
| 4 | Tom Scott | | N |
| 5 | Martin Dimery | | N |
| 6 | Karen La Borde | | N |

### Wales

| # | Candidate | Notes | Elected |
| 1 | Anthony Slaughter | Leader of the Wales Green Party. | N |
| 2 | Ian Chandler | | N |
| 3 | Ceri Davies | | N |
| 4 | Duncan Rees | Co-Deputy leader of the Wales Green Party. | N |

### Yorkshire and the Humber

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Magid Magid | Lord Mayor of Sheffield | Y |
| 2 | Alison Teal | Member of Sheffield City Council | N |
| 3 | Andrew Cooper | | N |
| 4 | Louise Houghton | | N |
| 5 | Lars Kramm | Regional Chair of the European Regional Scout Committee (2019–2021) | N |
| 6 | Ann Forsaith | | N |

## Labour Party

The Labour Party stood candidates in all constituencies in Great Britain.

### South East England

The Labour Party had a list of 10 candidates for the 10 seats available in the South East of England.
| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | John Howarth | Incumbent MEP since 2017 | Y |
| 2 | Cathy Shutt | University teacher and researcher | N |
| 3 | Arran Richard Neathey | Member of Runnymede Borough Council | N |
| 4 | Emma Christina Turnbull | Member of Oxfordshire County Council | N |
| 5 | Rohit K. Dasgupta | Academic and Member of Newham London Borough Council | N |
| 6 | Amy Lauren Fowler | Labour Party activist | N |
| 7 | Duncan Shaw Thomas Enright | Member of Oxfordshire County Council | N |
| 8 | Lubna Aiysha Arshad | Member of Oxford City Council | N |
| 9 | Simon Guy Burgess | Former prospective parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown in 2010 | N |
| 10 | Rachael Eowyn Ward | Momentum activist | N |

### South West England

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Clare Moody | Trade unionist and MEP since 2014. | N |
| 2 | Lord Andrew Adonis | Journalist and Labour member of the House of Lords | N |
| 3 | Jayne Kirkham | Labour candidate for Truro and Falmouth at the 2017 general election. | N |
| 4 | Neil Guild | Labour candidate for Taunton Deane at the 2015 general election. | N |
| 5 | Yvonne Atkinson | Labour member of Devon County Council. | N |
| 6 | Sadik Al-Hassan | Pharmacy manager from Kingswood in South Gloucestershire. | N |

### Yorkshire and the Humber

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Richard Corbett | Incumbent Member of the European Parliament | N |
| 2 | Eloise Todd | | N |
| 3 | Jawad Mohammed Khan | Member of the Young Labour National Committee | N |
| 4 | Jayne Allport | | N |
| 5 | Martin Mayer | | N |
| 6 | Alison Hume | Television writer, Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough and Whitby since 2024 | N |

## Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party stood 6 candidates for all the seats in Scotland.
| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Alyn Edward Smith | Incumbent MEP since 2004 | YUntil resignation after election in the 2019 UK general election |
| 2 | Christian Allard | MSP from North East Scotland since 2013 | Y |
| 3 | Aileen McLeod | MSP from South Scotland 2011 to 2016 Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform 2014 to 2016 | Y |
| 4 | Margaret Ferrier | Former MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West 2015 to 2017 | Nwas not co-opted as elected in the 2019 UK general election |
| 5 | Heather Anderson | Member of Scottish Borders Council since 2017 | N Not elected immediately Yco-opted following the resignation of Alyn Smith and election to the UK Parliament of Margaret Ferrier |
| 6 | Alex Kerr | University student | N |

## UKIP
### South West England

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Lawrence Webb | | N |
| 2 | Carl Benjamin | Anti-feminist YouTuber and political commentator | N |
| 3 | Tony McIntyre | | N |
| 4 | Lester Taylor | | N |
| 5 | Stephen Lee | | N |
| 6 | Alison Sheridan | | N |

### Yorkshire and the Humber

| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Mike Hookem | Incumbent UKIP Member of the European Parliament | N |
| 2 | Gary Shores | | N |
| 3 | John Hancock | | N |
| 4 | David Dews | | N |
| 5 | Graeme Waddicar | | N |
| 6 | Clifford Parsons | | N |

## Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru, the party of Wales, only contested the Wales constituency.
| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Jill Evans | Incumbent MEP | Y |
| 2 | Carmen Smith | Appointed to the House of Lords in the 2024 Special Honours | N |
| 3 | Patrick McGuinness | Academic, critic, novelist and poet | N |
| 4 | Ioan Bellin | Television journalist | N |

## Yorkshire Party

The Yorkshire Party only stood candidates in the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency:
| # | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Chris Whitwood | Leader of the Yorkshire Party (2019-2020) | N |
| 2 | Mike Jordan | | N |
| 3 | Jack Carrington | | N |
| 4 | Laura Walker | | N |
| 5 | Bob Buxton | | N |
| 6 | Dan Cochran | | N |

## Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland has a different party system to Great Britain and used the single transferable vote rather than the party list system to elect 3 MEPs. This meant the party list included one candidate per party for the three seats available. There were 11 candidates:
| # | Party | Candidate | Occupation | Elected |
| 1 | Sinn Féin | Martina Anderson | Incumbent MEP | Y |
| 2 | DUP | Diane Dodds | Incumbent MEP | Y |
| 3 | Alliance | Naomi Long | Former MP and Member of the Legislative Assembly | Y |
| 4 | SDLP | Colum Eastwood | Member of the Legislative Assembly | N |
| 5 | TUV | Jim Allister | Member of the Legislative Assembly | N |
| 6 | Ulster Unionist | Danny Kennedy | Member of the Legislative Assembly | N |
| 7 | Green (NI) | Clare Bailey | Member of the Legislative Assembly | N |
| 8 | UKIP | Robert Hill [Wikidata] | Former DUP member of Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council | N |
| 9 | Independent | Jane Morrice | Former Member of the Legislative Assembly from the NI Women's Coalition | N |
| 10 | Independent | Neil McCann [Wikidata] | Barrister | N |
| 11 | NI Conservatives | Amandeep Singh Bhoga [Wikidata] | Prospective parliamentary candidate for Upper Bann in the 2015 general election | N |