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.
| Staffordshire East | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
 European Parliament logo | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1979 |
| Dissolved | 1994 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
The constituency of Staffordshire East was one of them.
When it was created in England in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Burton, Cannock, Leek, Lichfield and Tamworth, Stoke-on-Trent Central, Stoke-on-Trent North, Stoke-on-Trent South,[1] although this may not have been true for the whole of its existence.
MEPs
edit| Elected | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Robert Moreland | Conservative | |
| 1984 | George Stevenson | Labour | |
| 1994 | Constituency abolished | ||
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Robert Moreland | 70,836 | 48.7 | ||
| Labour | M. P. Tracy | 64,230 | 44.1 | ||
| Liberal | B. Hargreaves | 10,409 | 7.2 | ||
| Majority | 6,606 | 4.6 | |||
| Turnout | 145,475 | 28.4 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | George Stevenson | 76,753 | 44.7 | +0.6 | |
| Conservative | Robert Moreland | 68,886 | 40.1 | −8.6 | |
| SDP | Roger G. Fox | 26,093 | 15.2 | +8.0 | |
| Majority | 7,867 | 4.6 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 171,732 | 30.5 | +2.1 | ||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | George Stevenson | 94,873 | 50.4 | +5.7 | |
| Conservative | Michael F. Spungin | 63,104 | 33.5 | −6.6 | |
| Green | Stephen Parker | 23,415 | 12.4 | New | |
| SLD | Rob C. Dodson | 7,046 | 3.7 | −11.5 | |
| Majority | 31,769 | 16.9 | +12.3 | ||
| Turnout | 188,438 | 32.4 | +1.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
References
edit- ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 20 January 2008.
- ^ a b c Boothroyd, David (21 August 2020). "United Kingdom European Parliamentary Election results 1979-99: England 2". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
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