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.
| Wight and Hampshire East | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
 European Parliament logo | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1979 |
| Dissolved | 1994 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
The constituency of Wight and Hampshire East was one of them.
It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Aldershot, Fareham, Farnham, Gosport, Isle of Wight, Petersfield, Portsmouth North, and Portsmouth South.[1]
Members of the European Parliament
edit| Elected | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Stanley Johnson | Conservative | |
| 1984 | Richard Simmonds | Conservative | |
| 1994 | Constituency abolished | ||
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Stanley Johnson | 128,414 | 64.7 | ||
| Liberal | Baroness Seear | 35,248 | 17.7 | ||
| Labour | L. F. Bennett | 34,901 | 17.6 | ||
| Majority | 93,166 | 47.0 | |||
| Turnout | 198,563 | 34.5 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Richard Simmonds | 96,666 | 51.7 | −13.0 | |
| Liberal | Miss S. A. Ludford | 53,738 | 28.8 | +11.1 | |
| Labour | Jim A. Phillips | 36,445 | 19.5 | +1.9 | |
| Majority | 42,928 | 22.9 | −24.1 | ||
| Turnout | 186,849 | 34.3 | −0.2 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Richard Simmonds | 90,658 | 44.9 | −6.8 | |
| Labour | Alan D. Burnett | 51,228 | 25.3 | +5.8 | |
| Green | Steven L. Rackett | 40,664 | 20.1 | New | |
| SLD | Miss Viv A. Rayner | 19,569 | 9.7 | −19.1 | |
| Majority | 39,430 | 19.6 | −3.3 | ||
| Turnout | 202,119 | 35.2 | +0.9 | ||
| Conservative 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 14 February 2022.
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