10 June 2004
78 seats
Electoral system: party list system; proportional representation
The United Kingdom is divided into 12 constituencies.
East of England (7 seats)
Conservative Party: - outgoing Geoffrey Van Orden (59), formerly in the military; - outgoing Robert Sturdy (60), farmer; - outgoing Bashir Khanbhai (59), company director; - outgoing Christopher Beazley (52), teacher, who entered the European Parliament for the first time in 1984; - and Jonathan Morgan (36), architect.
Labour Party: - outgoing MEP Richard Howitt (43); Beth Kelly.
Liberal Democrats: - the outgoing Andrew Duff (53) who has also been leader of the Liberals at the European Convention; - local councillor Chris White (44).
Green Party: - Margaret Wright (64), teacher; - Municipal Councillor for Norwich, Adrian Ramsay (23).
UKIP: - the outgoing Jeffrey Titford (70), retired company director; -Tom Wise, parliamentary assistant to the former.
East Midlands (6 seats)
Conservative Party: outgoing Roger Helmer (60), who held various management posts in business and Chambers of Commerce; - outgoing Chris Heaton-harris (36), football umpire; - and Pauling Latham, Derby Town Councillor.
Labour Party: - outgoing MEP Phillip Whitehead (67); - Glenis Willmott.
Liberal Democrats: - MEP since 1979, Bill Newton Dunn (62 ) left the Tories in November to join the Liberal group at the European Parliament; - legal expert Alan Riley, specialist in European law; - Veena Hudson, former parliamentary assistant and journalist.
Green Party: - Brian Fewster (62), IT specialist and poet; - local MP Sue Blount.
UKIP: - Robert Kilroy-Silk; - Derek Clark, retired teacher.
West Midlands (7 seats)
Conservative Party: - outgoing Philip Bushill-Matthews (61), company director; - outgoing Philip Bradbourn (53); - outgoing Malcolm Harbour (57), consultant in the automobile sector; - Andrew Griffiths (32), parliamentary assistant.
Labour Party: - outgoing MEP Michael Cashman (53); - outgoing MEP Neena Gill (47).
Liberal Democrats: - outgoing Liz Lynne (56 ), former actress; - former mayor of Birmingham, Paul Tilsley.
Green Party- Painter and ceramicist Chris Leonard (50).
UKIP: - Mike Nattrass, former member of the New Britain Party.
South East England (10 seats)
Conservative Party: - outgoing Daniel Hannan (33), journalist; - outgoing Nirj Deva (56), company director; - outgoing James Elles (55), budget specialist, at the EP since 1984; - President of United Milk plc Richard Ashworth (57); - outgoing James Provan (68) at the EP since 1979; and outgoing Roy Perry (61).
Labour Party: - outgoing MEP Peter Skinner (45); - outgoing MEP Mark Watts (40); - Ann Davison.
Liberal Democrats: - outgoing Chris Huhne (50), economist and journalist; - outgoing Emma Nicholson (62), information technology worker and member of the House of Lords; - Sharon Bowles, European patents expert and brand law, who has also campaigned against forced and child labour; - local councillor Catherine Bearder who studied wild animals in South Africa 4 before returning to the United Kingdom and who is particularly interested in the fight against social exclusion
Green Party: - the outgoing Caroline Lucas (44); local MP and party spokesperson Mike Wooding (38), teacher.
UKIP: - the outgoing Nigel Farage (40), commodities broker; Ashley Mote, author of the book "Vigilance", a campaigner for British sovereignty.
South West England (7 seats)
Conservative Party: - outgoing Neil Parish (48), farmer; - current Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Caroline Jackson (57), historian; - outgoing Giles Chichester (58), Editor; - Richard Graham, former diplomat, also active in the business world; - outgoing The Earl of Stockton (60), editor.
Labour Party: - outgoing MEP Glyn Ford (54), who has been an MEP since 1984; - Bernadette Hartley.
Liberal Democrats: - president of the Liberal group, Graham Watson (48) who also chaired the public freedoms committee; - Tony Welch who served in the Royal Marines, notably during the Falklands war, before working for the United Nations in Kosovo.
Green Party: David Taylor
UKIP: - the outgoing Graham Booth (64); -former Conservative MP Roger Knapman (60).
London (9 Seats)
Conservative Party: - outgoing Theresa Villiers (36), lawyer; - outgoing John Bowis (59), former Health Minister; - outgoing Charles Tannock (47), psychiatrist; - Syed Kamall (35), consultant and author of a book on EU telecommunications policy; - outgoing Richard Balfe (60), who entered the EP in 1979 and has been Quaestor since 1994; - outgoing Ian Twinn (54), who took over from Lord Bethell in September 2003.
Labour Party: - outgoing MEP Claude Moraes (38), a legal expert; - outgoing MEP Mary Honeyball (51); - outgoing MEP Robert Evans (47); - Anita Pollack (58), who was an MEP between 1989 and 1999.
Liberal Democrats: - outgoing Sarah Ludford (53), lawyer and very active in the protection of fundamental rights, member of the House of Lords; - journalist Jonathan Fryer (54) who worked for Reuters in Brussels before joining the BBC; - former director of an international bank , John Stevens (49) already an MEP following 1989 elections, as a member of the Conservative group. He was rapporteur on drafts on the ECB and Euro..
Green Party: - the outgoing Jean Lambert (54), teacher; - Paul Ingram (37) specialist in defence and arms trade issues.
UKIP: - Gerard Batten.
Yorshire and the Humber (6 seats)
Conservative Party: - outgoing Timothy Kirkhope (59), jurist; - outgoing Edward McMillan-Scott (55); - Mohammed Riaz, director of a company specialised in care for the elderly; - outgoing Robert Goodwill (47), farmer.
Labour Party: - outgoing MEP Linda Mcavan (41); - outgoing MEP Richard Corbett (49); - outgoing MEP David Bowe (49).
Liberal Democrats: - outgoing Diana Wallis (50), lawyer - business woman Julia Gash (40) who sells lingerie and erotic accessories, in the Devonshire district of Sheffield which she made into the first business zone accepting the Euro as tender on British territory; local councillor local Stewart Arnold (46).
Green Party: - Local MP Mark Hill.
UKIP: - Godfrey Bloom.
North West England (9 seats)
Conservative Party: - outgoing Den Dover (66); - outgoing David Sumberg (63), company director; - outgoing Robert Atkins (58), consultant; - outgoing Jacqueline Foster (56), former air hostess; - former President of the musical instruments manufacturers' association, David Newns (57); - Alf Doran (50), retired police officer (constable within Merseyside area for 18 years).
Labour Party: - outgoing MEPs Gary Titley (54); Arlene McCarthy (43); Terry Wynn (58), a budget expert; Brian Simpson (51).
Liberal Democrats: - outgoing Chris Davies (50); - local councillor Sajjad Karim; - local councillor in Liverpool Flo Clucas who is also a member of the EU Committee of the Regions.
Green Party: - John Whitelegg (55), University lecturer, specialist in sustainable development issues and Lancaster municipal councillor; former local MP Gina Dowding.
UKIP: -John Whittaker, economist.
Nord East England (3 seats)
Conservative Party: - outgoing Martin Callanan (43), engineer; - co-founder of HomeServe plc, the largest provider of network assistance and repair services in the United Kingdom, Jeremy Middleton (44).
Labour Party: - outgoing MEP Stephen Hughes (52); - outgoing MEP Barbara O'Toole (44).
Liberal Democrats: - Fiona Hall (49) who has worked as a teacher and press attaché.
Green Party: Pam Woolner (34).
UKIP: Piers Merchant.
Scotland (7 seats)
Conservative Party: - outgoing Struan Stevenson (56), farmer and currently Chair of the Fisheries Committee; - outgoing John Purvis (66), elected to the EP for the first time in 1979; - Cameron Buchanan, director of a textile company. The Scottish candidates are all members of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
Labour Party: - outgoing vice-president of the European Parliament David Martin (50); - outgoing MEP Catherine Stihler (31); - outgoing MEP Bill Miller (50); - outgoing MEP Kirsty O'Brien.
Liberal Democrats: - outgoing Elspeth Attwooll (61 ), former university assistant; - local councillor for Edinburgh, Dobbie Aldridge (56) who has worked closely with the homeless; - Alex Bruce who worked for the Liberal group at the EP.
Scottish National Party: - the Scottish National Party had two MEPs in the last legislature. One of them, Neil MacCormick, who was very active in the work of the Convention although he was only an alternate, is not standing again.The SNP list is headed by outgoing MEP Ian Hudgthon (53), an entrepreneur. Second on the list is Alyn Smith (31), a parliamentary assistant who grew up in Saudi Arabia and studied in Leeds and Heidelberg.
UKIP: Peter Troy.
Scottish Green Party: - Chas Booth
Wales (4 seats)
Conservative Party: - outgoing Jonathan Evans (54), lawyer; - Criminal Barrister O.J. Williams.
Labour Party: - outgoing MEP Glenys Kinnock (60), who has notably been the co-chair of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly ACP-EU; - outgoing MEP Eluned Morgan (37).
Liberal Democrats: John Williams.
Green Party + PCYMRU: In Wales, which loses a seat in the European Parliament (4 instead of 5 in 1999), the Greens, who have no MEP, are presenting a list headed by local MP Martyn Shrewsbury (46), psychotherapist. The Welsh party Plaid Cymru could lose one of its two seats it won at the last European elections. The Pcymru list is headed y the outgoing Jillian Evans (45), followed by University lecturer John Blackwood (31). The outgoing Eurig Wynn will not be standing.
Ulster (3 seats)
The candidates in Northern Ireland are: - Jim Allister for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP); - outgoing MEP Jim Nicholson (59) for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP); - Martin Morgan for the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP); - Marie Perry for the Green Party; - Bairbre De Brun for Sinn Fein; - Eamonn McCann for the Socialist Environmental Alliance; - John Gilliland as an independent.
Several other groups such as the British National Party, Prolife, The Countryside Party, The Common Good and The Pensioners Party are presenting in one or more constituencies.