Scotland (, ) was a constituency of the European Parliament created in 1999. It elected between eight and six MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation every five years from 1999 until 2020. The constituency was abolished after the United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Boundaries The constituency's boundaries were the same as those of Scotland, one of the four countries of the United Kingdom.
History The constituency was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Glasgow, Highlands and Islands, Lothians, Mid Scotland and Fife, North East Scotland, South of Scotland, Strathclyde East, and Strathclyde West.
The number of MEPs returned by the constituency was eight in 1999, seven in 2004, and six in 2009, 2014 and 2019.
After the result of the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum vote to leave the European Union in 2016, this constituency was abolished on 31 January 2020 following completion of the Article 50 withdrawal process.
MEPs for former Scottish constituencies, 1979–1999 Election 1979 – 1984 1984 – 1989 1989 – 1994 1994 – 1999 Highlandsand Islands Winnie EwingSNP North EastScotland James ProvanConservative Henry McCubbinLabour Allan MacartneySNPto August 1998 Ian HudghtonSNPfrom November 1998 South ofScotland Alasdair HuttonConservative Alex SmithLabour Lothians Ian DalzielConservative David MartinLabour Mid Scotlandand Fife John PurvisConservative Alex FalconerLabour StrathclydeWest Adam FergussonConservative Hugh McMahonLabour StrathclydeEast Ken CollinsLabour Glasgow Janey BuchanLabour Bill MillerLabour
Returned members MEPs for Scotland, 1999 onwards Election MEPParty Struan StevensonConservative Ian DuncanConservativeto September 2017 Nosheena MobarikConservativefrom September 2017 MEPParty Elspeth AttwoollLiberal Democrat George LyonLiberal Democrat David CoburnUKIP (2014–2018) Independent (2018–2019)Brexit Party (2019)Sheila RitchieLiberal Democrat MEPParty Neil MacCormickSNP Alyn SmithSNPto December 2019 Heather AndersonSNPin January 2020 MEPParty Ian HudghtonSNP Christian AllardSNP MEPParty David MartinLabour Aileen McLeodSNP MEPParty Catherine StihlerLabourto January 2019 Vacant Louis Stedman-BryceBrexit Party (2019)Independent (2019) MEPParty John PurvisConservative Seat abolished MEPParty Bill MillerLabour Seat abolished
Election results Elected candidates are listed in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.
2019
1 On 15 May, David Macdonald, the lead candidate for Change UK in Scotland, switched to endorsing the Liberal Democrats in order not to split the pro-Remain vote.
2 Alyn Smith resigned his seat following his election to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 2019 United Kingdom general election, alongside Margaret Ferrier. He was replaced by Heather Anderson in January 2020.
2014
† Ian Duncan resigned his seat in September 2017, to take up a seat in the House of Lords and be appointed as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland. He was replaced by Nosheena Mobarik later in the month.
2009
2004
1999
See also Elections in Scotland
Notes
References
External links Scottish Elections Between 1997 and present