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| European Parliament constituency | |
 Location among the 2014 constituencies | |
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| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1999 |
| Dissolved | 31 January 2020 |
| MEPs | 5 (1999–2004) 4 (2004–2020) |
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Wales (Welsh: Cymru [ˈkəmri] ) was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 4 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation,[1] until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Boundaries
The constituency corresponded to the boundaries of Wales, one of the four countries of the United Kingdom.[2][3]
History
It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Mid and West Wales, North Wales, South Wales Central, South Wales East, and South Wales West.
| MEPs for former Welsh constituencies, 1979–1999[4] | |||||||||
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| Election | 1979–1984 | 1984–1989 | 1989–1994 | 1994–1999 | |||||
| North Wales | Beata Brookes Conservative |
Joe Wilson Labour |
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| Mid and West Wales | Ann Clwyd Labour |
David Morris Labour |
Eluned Morgan Labour |
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| South East Wales (1979–1984) South Wales East (1984–1999) |
Allan Rogers Labour |
Llew Smith Labour |
Glenys Kinnock Labour |
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| South Wales | Win Griffiths Labour |
Wayne David Labour |
Constituency abolished | ||||||
| South Wales Central | Constituency not established | Wayne David Labour |
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| South Wales West | Constituency not established | David Morris Labour |
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Returned members
| MEPs for Wales, 1999 onwards | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Election | 1999 (5th parliament) | 2004 (6th parliament) | 2009 (7th parliament) | 2014 (8th parliament) | 2019 (9th parliament) | ||||||
| MEP Party |
Jonathan Evans Conservative |
Kay Swinburne Conservative |
James Wells Brexit Party |
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| MEP Party |
Eluned Morgan Labour |
John Bufton UKIP |
Nathan Gill UKIP (until 2018) Independent (2018–2019) Brexit Party (from 2019) |
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| MEP Party |
Glenys Kinnock Labour |
Derek Vaughan Labour |
Jackie Jones Labour |
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| MEP Party |
Jill Evans Plaid Cymru |
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| MEP Party |
Eurig Wyn Plaid Cymru |
Seat abolished | |||||||||
| Party | Faction in European Parliament | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brexit Party | 29 | Non-Inscrits | 57 | |||
| DUP | 1 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | 16 | 17 | Renew Europe | 108 | ||
| Alliance | 1 | |||||
| Green | 7 | 11 | Greens–European Free Alliance | 75 | ||
| SNP | 3 | |||||
| Plaid Cymru | 1 | |||||
| Labour | 10 | Socialists and Democrats | 154 | |||
| Conservative | 4 | European Conservatives and Reformists | 62 | |||
| Sinn Féin | 1 | European United Left–Nordic Green Left | 41 | |||
| Total | 73 | Total | 750 | |||
Election results
Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.
Elections in the 2010s
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