Euro elections: Winners and losers in your area

Full results can be found here.

The regions...

SOUTH EAST
UKIP’s overall gains in the European elections are best shown in the South-East. With only 1 MEP elected in 2009, Nigel Farage’s party topped the poll this time around, grabbing four seats in total. Mr Farage will be joined in Brussels by Raymond Finch, Janice Atkinson and Diane James (who won a famous second place in the Eastleigh by-election following the resignation of Chris Huhne). The Conservatives were bruised; returning only Daniel Hannan, Richard Ashworth and Nirj Deva in place of the five they elected in 2009. The only piece of good news for the Liberal Democrats came in the form of Catherine Bearder, who scraped in for the final seat.

NORTH EAST
The first result of the night proved to be a big shock. Setting the tone for a series of high profile losses, Martin Callanan, Conservative MEP since 1999 and Chairman of the ECR Conservative grouping in the Parliament, lost his seat. The Liberal Democrat seat was also wiped out with Labour taking two, and UKIP winning the final seat.

NORTH WEST
British National Party leader Nick Griffin was another casualty. Suffering a 6% drop in his share of the vote, both Mr Griffin and his former colleague Andrew Brons (Yorkshire and the Humber) were defeated. The Conservative vote took a knock of around 5% - resulting in only two MEPs, rather than the previous tally of three. However, the North West was one of two regions in the UK where Labour topped the ballot, ahead of UKIP – returning three MEPs.

SOUTH WEST
A real mix of results in the South West: UKIP took first place, winning two seats. Veteran Liberal Democrat, Sir Graham Watson, was defeated – signalling the start of the near wipeout of the ‘party of IN’. The Conservatives also lost support and only picked up two of the three seats they used to hold – returning Ashley Fox and Agriculture spokesman Julie Girling. Labour and the Green party both made gains for the first time since 2009.

EAST MIDLANDS
Despite taking a 4.16% knock to their vote share, the Conservatives picked up a second seat in the East Midlandss. Ahead of the Newark by-election next week, UKIP almost doubled its share of the vote, returning Roger Helmer, UKIP’s candidate for Newark, and Margot Parker. Labour’s leader in Europe, Glenis Willmott, was also returned. Mrs Willmott has been an enthusiastic proponent of food labelling rules and will now be able to continue that work in Parliament.

WEST MIDLANDS
UKIP were the outright winners in the West Midlands, taking three out of the seven seats available. Colourful sitting MEPs Mike Nattrass and Nikki Sinclair were defeated, with both of their seats reverting

to UKIP. The Conservatives failed to maintain their three seats, leaving only Phillip Bradbourn and Anthea McIntyre elected. Former MP Siôn Simon also becomes a Labour MEP, along with Neena Gill who returns to the European Parliament after being defeated in 2009. NFU member Phil Bennion became a further Liberal Democrat casualty after polling only 5.57%, although he can take some comfort at bucking the national trend and beating the Green party.

EAST OF ENGLAND
UKIP’s high-profile candidate, and former Daily Express columnist, Patrick O’Flynn topped the poll in the Eastern region. He now joins Tim Aker and former NFU Council member, Stuart Agnew, in Brussels. Mr Agnew is likely to resume his seat on the Parliament’s agriculture committee. Conservatives Vicky Ford, Geoffrey Van Orden and David Campbell Bannerman were also returned. However, an 11% swing meant that the Tory seat once belonging to Robert Sturdy MEP (who stood down to concentrate on his business interests) went to UKIP instead.

YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER
A whopping 13% increase in support for UKIP was disastrous news for the Liberal Democrats. Both Rebecca Taylor (who was standing down anyway) and Edward McMillan-Scott lost their seats leaving UKIP to swell its MEPs in the region from 1 to 3. Timothy Kirkhope was re-elected as the lone Conservative. Andrew Brons, formerly of the British National Party, was also defeated.

WALES
After much to-ing and fro-ing, the Welsh result showed no change from the 2009 line up. However, it was the Labour party who topped the poll – knocking previous pole sitter Kay Swinburne down into third place, behind UKIP’s Nathan Gill. During the night, it looked as though Labour had polled enough to take the final seat, but it eventually swung back to Plaid Cymru’s Jill Evans MEP.

SCOTLAND
In a huge year for Scottish politics, the final result surprised even veteran political commentators when it finally came on Monday morning. Former NFUS President George Lyon failed to win, another victim to the Liberal Democrat vote collapse. The Scottish National Party also failed in its bid to take three out of the six seats on offer – retuning sitting MEPs Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith. Labour also maintained its two seats meaning that Catherine Stihler and David Martin will also return to Brussels. But crucially, the Liberal Democrat vote appeared to be good news for the Conservatives and UKIP who each took 1 seat. David Coburn becomes Scotland’s first UKIP MEP, while Ian Duncan replaces Struan Stevenson who stood down.

NORTHERN IRELAND
Votes are still being counted. Martina Andersen, the Sinn Fein, candidate is the only MEP to have been elected so far. Results are expected on Tuesday 27th May.