Claim c65aba18Checked 09 Jul 2026
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The constituency is vast: six million voters.
Nigel Farage·Nigel Farage - High Profiles·ArticleFactual · quantitative empirical
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
Nigel Farage’s European Parliament constituency was South East England, and official parliamentary figures for the 2011 review give that region an electorate of 6,192,504. So describing it as “six million voters” is a fair rounding of the actual size. (petition.parliament.uk) Sources: UK Parliament petition page (https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/172825); UK House of Commons Library / Boundary Commission summary, “Constituency boundaries: the Sixth General” (https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06229/SN06229.pdf).
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.
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[1]researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06229/SN06229.pdf
[2]europarl.europa.eu
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4525/NIGEL_FARAGE/history/8
[3]petition.parliament.uk
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/172825
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