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 and Wear | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
 European Parliament logo | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1984 |
| Dissolved | 1999 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
The constituency of Tyne and Wear was one of them.
It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1983 boundaries) of Gateshead East, Houghton and Washington, Jarrow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne East, South Shields, Sunderland North, Sunderland South, and Tyne Bridge.[1]
MEPs
edit| Elected | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Joyce Quin | Labour | |
| 1989 | Alan Donnelly | Labour | |
| 1999 | Constituency abolished: see North East England | ||
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Joyce Quin | 89,024 | 60.3 | ||
| Conservative | Roger R Cook | 39,610 | 26.8 | ||
| Liberal | Brendan P Carroll | 19,081 | 12.9 | ||
| Majority | 49,414 | 33.5 | |||
| Turnout | 147,715 | ||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Alan Donnelly | 126,682 | 69.3 | +9.0 | |
| Conservative | Nicholas C Gibbon | 30,902 | 16.9 | −9.9 | |
| Green | Ralph Stather | 18,107 | 9.9 | New | |
| SLD | Peter J Arnold | 6,101 | 3.4 | −9.5 | |
| Socialist (GB) | TP Kilgallon | 919 | 0.5 | New | |
| Majority | 95,780 | 52.4 | +18.9 | ||
| Turnout | 182,711 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Alan Donnelly | 107,604 | 74.4 | +5.1 | |
| Conservative | Ian Liddell-Grainger | 19,224 | 13.3 | −3.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter J Maughan | 8,706 | 6.0 | +2.6 | |
| Green | Gareth LN Edwards | 4,375 | 3.0 | −6.9 | |
| Independent | Winifred E Lundgren | 4,174 | 2.9 | New | |
| Independent | Alexander W Fisken | 650 | 0.4 | New | |
| Majority | 88,380 | 61.1 | +8.7 | ||
| Turnout | 144,733 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
References
edit- ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 20 January 2008.
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