Claim 25a461a6Checked 21 Jul 2026
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“Farage's constituency has six million voters.”
Reasoning & Evidence21 Jul 2026
The claim is accurate. Nigel Farage was elected as a UKIP Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South East England European Parliament constituency in the 2009 election. According to the BBC's official results page for that election, the electorate for the South East England region was 6,231,875 — approximately six million voters, exactly as Farage states. A Kent Online article from the same period also confirms that the south east region "has an electorate of just over six million." Farage's description of his constituency as "vast – six million voters" is a faithful rounding of the actual figure.
Sources:
- BBC News, "European Election 2009: South East" — http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/elections/euro/09/html/ukregion_35.stm
- Kent Online, "Unravelling the facts behind the Euro elections" — https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/unravelling-the-facts-behind-the-a97392/
- Wikipedia, "South East England (European Parliament constituency)" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_East_England_(European_Parliament_constituency)
From article
It would be silly to say that – you could never, ever represent the whole country – and since I was elected to the European Parliament I’ve always said that I’m not going to represent the whole constituency (and remember it’s vast – six million voters), I’m there to represent the people who voted for me and to use that position to try to persuade others that we are actually right.
But the interesting thing about [the UK Independence Party] is that it attracts an incredibly diverse range of people. We pick up what I would call ‘patriotic Old Labour’, we pick up classical liberals who hate the big state and believe in individual freedom and we pick up traditional Tories who believe in the country. And don’t forget that when we started [in 1993], only about six of us in the country believed in this.
Sources opened
| [1] | en.wikipedia.org |
| [2] | en.wikipedia.org |
| [3] | woking.gov.uk |
| [4] | woking.gov.uk |
| [5] | oxford.gov.uk |
| [6] | news.bbc.co.uk |
| [7] | kentonline.co.uk |
| [8] | wikidata.org |