United Kingdom European Parliament election 2019 — Results
Election day: May 23, 2019
- Brexit Party: 30.51%
- Liberal Democrats: 19.58%
- Labour Party: 13.65%
- Green Party: 10.94%
- Conservative Party: 8.80%
- Scottish National Party: 3.46%
- Change UK: 3.32%
- UK Independence Party: 3.22%
Turnout: 37.18%
About this election
How the vote works
Unlike Westminster elections, the European Parliament election in Great Britain used closed-list proportional representation (the d'Hondt method) across eleven regions — the nine English regions plus Scotland and Wales — each electing between three and ten MEPs. Northern Ireland, as its own single region, used the Single Transferable Vote to elect three MEPs. The UK elected 73 MEPs in total. The proportional system meant smaller parties could win real representation, in sharp contrast to the winner-takes-all logic of a general election.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 10.93 points separated Brexit Party from Liberal Democrats — 1,881,249 votes.
- The top two shared 50.09% of the vote between them, and 6 lists cleared 5%.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election