2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
10 June 2004
All 78 of the United Kingdom's seats
in the European Parliament
Turnout38.5% 14.5%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Jonathan Evans Gary Titley Roger Knapman
Party Conservative Labour UKIP
Alliance EPP PES IND/DEM
Leader since 14 December 2001 2002 5 October 2002
Leader's seat Wales North East England South West England
Last election 36 seats, 33.5% 29 seats, 26.3% 3 seats, 6.5%
Seats before 35 25 2
Seats won 27 19 12
Seat change 8* 6* 10*
Popular vote 4,397,087 3,718,683 2,650,768
Percentage 25.9% 21.9% 15.6%
Swing 7.6% 4.4% 9.1%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Graham Watson Caroline Lucas Ian Hudghton
Party Liberal Democrats Green SNP
Alliance ALDE Green EFA
Leader since January 2002 30 November 2003 June 1999
Leader's seat South West England South East England Scotland
Last election 10 seats, 11.9% 2 seats, 5.3% 2 seats, 2.6%
Seats before 10 2 2
Seats won 12 2 2
Seat change 2*
Popular vote 2,452,327 948,588 231,505
Percentage 14.4% 5.6% 1.4%
Swing 2.6% 0.3% 1.2%
Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the results tables *Seat change has been adjusted to allow for direct comparison with the results from the 1999 election.

The 2004 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's part of the wider 2004 European Parliament election which was held between 10 and 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union. The United Kingdom's part of this election was held on Thursday 10 June 2004. The election also coincided with the 2004 local elections and the London Assembly and mayoral elections. In total, 78 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.

The Conservative Party and the Labour Party both polled poorly. The Conservatives experienced their second-lowest ever recorded vote share in a national election (even less than their 1832 nadir, although the party would do worse still in the 2014 and 2019 elections), and Labour their lowest since 1918. The UK Independence Party (UKIP) saw a large increase in support, increasing its number of MEPs from 3 to 12 and on popular vote pushed the Liberal Democrats, who themselves had increased their representation from 10 to 12 seats into fourth place. In Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin beat the SDLP in the polls and took its first Northern Ireland seat.

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