Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales. 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.
| Midlands East | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
 European Parliament logo | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1979 |
| Dissolved | 1984 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
The constituency of Midlands East was one of them.
It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (under the terms of The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1970, which had taken effect at the February 1974 general election) of Blaby, Bosworth, Loughborough, Meriden, Nuneaton, and Rugby.[1]
Members of the European Parliament
edit| Elected | Members[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | John Taylor | Conservative | |
| 1984 | Constituency abolished | ||
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Taylor | 85,098 | 55.3 | ||
| Labour | T.R. O’Sullivan | 53,935 | 35.1 | ||
| Liberal | Graham A. Gopsill | 14,819 | 9.6 | ||
| Majority | 31,163 | 20.2 | |||
| Turnout | 153,852 | 32.3 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
References
edit- ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 20 January 2008.
- ^ Boothroyd, David (11 April 2003). "United Kingdom European Parliamentary Election results 1979-99: London". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 11 April 2003. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ United Kingdom European Parliamentary Election results 1979–99: Part 2
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