Cotswolds (European Parliament constituency)

Cotswolds (sometimes called "The Cotswolds") was a European Parliament constituency covering the counties of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire in England.

Cotswolds
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1999
MEPs	1
Sources
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Before uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in Great Britain. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.

When it was created in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Banbury, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Mid Oxfordshire, Oxford and Stroud. From 1984 it consisted of Banbury, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Stratford-on-Avon, Stroud and Witney. From 1994 it consisted of Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Stroud, West Gloucestershire and Witney.

Members of the European Parliament

Elected	Name	Party
1979	Sir Henry (later Lord) Plumb		Conservative

Election results

European Parliament election, 1979: Cotswolds

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Henry Plumb	109,139	58.6
	Labour	Jim A. Honeybone	37,713	20.3
	Liberal	Muriel Eda Burton	27,916	15.0
	United Against the Common Market	Donald Bennett	11,422	6.1
Majority			71,426	38.3
Turnout			186,190
	Conservative win (new seat)

European Parliament election, 1984: Cotswolds

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Henry Plumb	94,740	53.5	−5.1
	Liberal	Muriel Eda Burton	45,798	25.8	+10.8
	Labour	Janet A. Royall	36,738	20.7	+0.4
Majority			48,942	27.7	−10.6
Turnout			177,276
	Conservative hold		Swing

European Parliament election, 1989: Cotswolds

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lord Plumb	94,852	45.1	−8.4
	Green	Sue Limb	49,174	23.4	New
	Labour	Tom Levitt	48,180	22.9	+2.2
	SLD	Leslie Anthony Rowe	18,196	8.6	−17.2
Majority			45,678	21.7	−6.0
Turnout			210,402
	Conservative hold		Swing

European Parliament election, 1994: Cotswolds

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lord Plumb	67,484	34.5	−10.6
	Labour	Tess J. Kingham	63,216	32.3	+9.4
	Liberal Democrats	John C. Thomson	44,269	22.7	+14.1
	New Britain	Melvyn D. Rendell	11,044	5.7	New
	Green	Duncan McCanlis	8,254	4.2	−19.2
	Natural Law	Henry W. Brighouse	1,151	0.6	New
Majority			4,268	2.2	−19.5
Turnout			195,418
	Conservative hold		Swing

External links

• David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results