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Who’s my MEP? The full list of UK representatives in the EU prior to the European elections

Held across the EU from 23-26 May, the European Parliamentary vote gives UK residents the chance to elect the MEPs to represent their region

It’s only three weeks since the UK’s local elections, but Britain went to the polls again on Thursday for the 2019 EU elections.

Held across the EU from 23-26 May, the European Parliamentary vote gives UK residents the opportunity to elect MEPs to represent their region for the first time since 2014.

The dramatic circumstances of the vote, set against the backdrop of the UK’s impending departure from the EU, has created a surge of interest in the elections.

This has ensured plenty of coverage of this year’s candidates, particularly around the emergence of the two brand new political parties making their electoral debuts: the Brexit Party and Change UK.

But who have been the UK’s representatives in the European Parliament for the past five years? Here’s the full list of 73 MEPs to have held their posts since 2014, and the parties they were elected for.

A total of 73 MEPs from the UK sit in the European Parliament (Getty Images)

East Midlands Region – 5 MEPs

Jonathan Bullock – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

Emma McClarkin – Conservative

Rory Palmer – Labour

Margot Parker – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

Rupert Matthews – Conservatives

Eastern Region – 7 MEPs

Patrick O’Flynn – Ukip (left for SDP)

John Flack – Conservatives

Alex Mayer – Labour

Stuart Agnew – Ukip

Geoffrey Van Orden – Conservatives

Tim Aker – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

David Campbell Bannerman – Conservatives

London Region – 8 MEPs

Claude Moraes – Labour

Syed Kamall – Conservatives

Mary Honeyball – Labour

Gerard Batten – Ukip

Lucy Anderson – Labour

Charles Tannock – Conservatives

Seb Dance – Labour

Jean Lambert – Green Party

North East Region – 3 MEPs

Jude Kirton-Darling – Labour Party

Jonathan Arnott – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

Paul Brannen – Labour

North West Region – 8 MEPs

Theresa Griffin – Labour

Paul Nuttall – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

Jacqueline Foster – Conservatives

Wajid Khan – Labour

Louise Bours – Ukip (left to be independent)

Julie Ward – Labour

Sajjad Karim – Conservatives

Steven Woolfe – Ukip (left to be independent)

Northern Ireland – 3 MEPs

Martina Anderson – Sinn Féin

Diane Dodds – DUP

James Nicholson – UUP

Scotland – 6 MEPs

Ian Hudghton – SNP

David Martin – Labour

Baroness Nosheena Mobarik CBE – Conservatives

Alyn Smith – SNP

Catherine Stihler – Labour

David Coburn – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

South East Region – 10 MEPs

Nigel Farage – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

Daniel Hannan – Conservatives

Janice Atkinson – Ukip (left to be independent)

Nirj Deva – Conservatives

John Howarth – Labour

Diane James – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

Richard Ashworth – Conservatives

Keith Taylor – Green Party

Catherine Bearder – Liberal Democrats

Raymond Finch – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

South West Region – 6 MEPs

William (The Earl of) Dartmouth – Ukip (left to be independent)

Ashley Fox – Conservatives

Julia Reid – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

Julie Girling – Conservative (left to be independent)

Clare Moody – Labour

Molly Scott Cato – Green Party

Wales – 4 MEPs

Derek Vaughan – Labour

Nathan Gill – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

Dr Kay Swinburne – Conservatives

Jill Evans – Plaid Cymru

West Midlands Region – 7 MEPs

Jill Seymour – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

Neena Gill CBE – Labour

Dan Dalton – Conservatives

James Carver – Ukip (left to be independent)

Siôn Simon – Labour

Anthea McIntyre – Conservatives

Bill Etheridge – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

Yorkshire and the Humber – 6 MEPs

Jane Collins – Ukip (left for Brexit Party)

Linda McAvan – Labour

John Procter – Conservatives

Amjad Bashir – Conservatives

Richard Corbett – Labour

Mike Hookem – Ukip

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