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.
| Tyne South and Wear | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
 European Parliament logo | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1979 |
| Dissolved | 1984 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
The constituency of Tyne South and Wear was one of them.
It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1974 boundaries) of Blaydon, Gateshead East, Gateshead West, Jarrow, South Shields, Sunderland North, Sunderland South, and Tynemouth.[1]
Member of the European Parliament
edit| Elected | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Joyce Quin | Labour | |
| 1984 | Constituency abolished | ||
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Joyce Quin | 73,936 | 49.2 | ||
| Conservative | J. Landau | 67,475 | 44.9 | ||
| Liberal | Peter Freitag | 8,958 | 5.9 | ||
| Majority | 6,461 | 4.3 | |||
| Turnout | 150,369 | 29.8 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
References
editExternal links
edit
  | This United Kingdom election-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about the European Union is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |