Yorkshire and the Humber was a constituency of the

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. It elected six

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(MEPs) using the

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, until the UK exit from the

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on 31 January 2020.

Boundaries

The constituency corresponded to the

Yorkshire and the Humber Yorkshire and the Humber is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. The population in 2011 was 5,284,000 with its largest settlements being Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Hull, and York. It is ...

region of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of

South Yorkshire South Yorkshire is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and metropolitan county, metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. The county has four council areas which are the cities of City of Doncaster, Doncaster and City of Sh ...

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

and parts of

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and

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...

History

It was formed as a result of the

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, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were

Humberside Humberside () was a Non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in Northern England from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1996. It was composed of land from either side of the Humber Estuary, create ...

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by popula ...

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...

, Yorkshire South, Yorkshire South West, Yorkshire West, and parts of Cleveland and Richmond and Lincolnshire and Humberside South.

Returned members

¹Diana Wallis resigned in January 2012. ²Timothy Kirkhope was appointed to the

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in 2016 and as a result was required to resign.Len Tingle,
Yorkshire electorate baffled at how its MEP is replaced
, ''

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'', 28 November 2016.

Election results

Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the order in which candidates were elected, and the number of votes per seat won in their respective columns.

References

External links

Biographies of Y&H candidates 2009
at Micandidate
Breakdown of 2009 election results by council areas (pdf)
* ''Includes photos, contact information, links to EU website profiles'' {{European Parliament former constituencies European Parliament constituencies in England (1999–2020) Politics of Lincolnshire Politics of Yorkshire Yorkshire and the Humber 1999 establishments in England Constituencies established in 1999 Constituencies disestablished in 2020