page_title: 1999 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
hierarchical_section_title: 1999 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
caption_attribution_description: A map of the 1999 UK European Parliament results, based off of Image:European Parliament election 2004 - UK results.png by Anameofmyveryown. The only changes from the former and this map are the addition of squares to regions that lost MEPs between 1999 and 2004 (for example Wales had five MEPs in 1999 but one less in 2004). The squares are ordered by what place each party finished in 1999 (for example Labour finished first in Wales in 1999, followed by Plaid Cymru and the Tories). Colours have been changed for the the Northern Ireland paries, the SNP (Scotland), Plaid Cymru (Wales), and the Lib Dems.
context_page_description: The European Parliament Election, 1999 was the United Kingdom's part of the European Parliament election 1999. It was held on 10 June 1999. Following the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, it was the first European election to be held in the United Kingdom where the whole country used a system of proportional representation. In total, 87 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom across twelve new regional constituencies.
  The change in voting system resulted in significant changes in seats. The Conservatives won double the number of seats they had won in the previous European election, in 1994, while the Labour Party saw its seats reduced from 62 to 29. The Liberal Democrats saw their number of seats increase to 10 from just 2 in the previous election. The UK Independence Party, Green Party and Plaid Cymru gained their first ever seats in the European Parliament.
  The House of Commons Library calculated notional seat changes based on what the result would have been if the 1994 European elections had been held under proportional representation. The notional results and seat changes are shown in the results box for this article.
context_section_description: The European Parliament Election, 1999 was the United Kingdom's part of the European Parliament election 1999. It was held on 10 June 1999. Following the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, it was the first European election to be held in the United Kingdom where the whole country used a system of proportional representation. In total, 87 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom across twelve new regional constituencies.
  The change in voting system resulted in significant changes in seats. The Conservatives won double the number of seats they had won in the previous European election, in 1994, while the Labour Party saw its seats reduced from 62 to 29. The Liberal Democrats saw their number of seats increase to 10 from just 2 in the previous election. The UK Independence Party (UKIP), Green Party and Plaid Cymru gained their first ever seats in the European Parliament.
  The House of Commons Library calculated notional seat changes based on what the result would have been if the 1994 European elections had been held under proportional representation. The notional results and seat changes are shown in the results box for this article.
  It was the first European Parliament election to be held since the 1997 general election which resulted in a change of government from Conservative to Labour.
  Turnout was 24%, the lowest of any member state in the 1999 election where the EU average was 49.51%. It was also the lowest of any European election in the United Kingdom, and the lowest of any member state until the 2009 election and to date is the lowest turnout for any national election in the United Kingdom in electoral history.
caption: Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results
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