European Parliament election, 1984 (United Kingdom)

United Kingdom European Parliament election, 1984
81 seats to the European Parliament
81 seats to the European Parliament

The European Parliament Election, 1984 was the second European election to be held in the United Kingdom. It was held on 14 June. The electoral system was First Past the Post in England, Scotland and Wales and Single Transferable Vote in Northern Ireland. The turnout was again the lowest in Europe. In England, Scotland and Wales, the Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party were in alliance, collecting 2,591,635 votes but not a single seat.

The election represented a small recovery for Labour, under Michael Foot's replacement Neil Kinnock, taking 15 seats from the Conservatives. In the general election of 1983, they had only had a vote share of 2% more than the SDP-Liberal Alliance (although they had nearly 10 times more MP's elected) and 15% less than the Conservatives.

Overall (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) turnout: 33% (EC average: 61%)
Overall votes cast: 13,998,190

England, Scotland and Wales [edit]

Note: percentages are approximate

	Votes	Seats	Loss/Gain	Share of Vote (%)
Conservative	5,426,866	45	-15	38.8
Labour	4,865,224	32	+15	34.7
SDP–Liberal Alliance	2,591,659	0	0	19
SNP	230,594	1	0	2
Plaid Cymru	103,031	0	0	1
Ecology	70,853	0	0	1
Independent	11,073	0	0	0
Independent Ecology	3,330	0	0	0
Independent Conservative	3,249	0	0	0
Independent Liberal	2,981	0	0	0
Wessex Regionalist	2,365	0	0	0
Cornish Nationalist	1,892	0	0	0
Federal Republican	1,494	0	0	0

Total votes cast - 13,312,898. All parties listed.

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Source: UK-Elect

Constituency	Constituency result by party							Winning party 1984
Constituency	Con	Lab	Lib/All	SDP/All	PC	SNP	Others	Winning party 1984
Bedfordshire South	72,088	57,106	36,444						Conservative
Birmingham East	54,994	76,377		21,927			1,440		Labour
Birmingham West	55,702	61,946		19,422					Labour
Bristol	94,652	77,008		33,698					Conservative

Party		Candidate(s)	Seats	Loss/Gain	First Preference Votes
Party		Candidate(s)	Seats	Loss/Gain	Number	% of vote
	Democratic Unionist	Ian Paisley	1	0	230,251	33.6
	SDLP	John Hume	1	0	151,399	22.1
	Ulster Unionist	John Taylor	1	0	147,169	21.5
	Sinn Féin	Danny Morrison	0	0	91,476	13.3
	Alliance	David Cook	0	0	34,046	5.0
	Ulster Popular Unionist	James Kilfedder	0	0	20,092	2.9
	Workers' Party	Seamus Lynch	0	0	8,712	1.3
	Ecology	Colin McGuigan	0	0	2,172	0.3

Total votes cast - 685,317.