Northern Ireland (European Parliament constituency)
| Northern Ireland | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
 Shown within Europe | |
| Member state | [[{{{memberstate}}}]] |
| Created | [[1979 European Parliament election in {{{memberstatelink2}}}|1979]] |
| MEPs | 3 (2004) |
| Sources | |
| [1][2] | |
Northern Ireland is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 3 MEPs using the Single Transferable Vote, the only British constituency to do so.
Boundaries
The constituency covers the entirety of Northern Ireland.
Members of the European Parliament
| Year | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Ian Paisley | rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color| | [[Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/shortname]] | John Hume | rowspan=2 width=10 bgcolor=Template:Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color| | [[Social Democratic and Labour Party|Template:Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/shortname]] | John Taylor
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" | |
UUP | |
| 1989 | Jim Nicholson | rowspan=3 bgcolor=Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color| | [[Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/shortname]] | ||||||
| 2004 | Jim Allister
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" | |
DUP | Bairbre de Brún | rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color| | [[Template:Sinn Féin/meta/shortname]] | ||||
| 2007
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Election results
| European Parliament election 2004: Northern Ireland [1] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | ||
| Number | % of vote | |||||
| DUP | Jim Allister | 1 | 0 | 175,761 | 31.9 | |
| Sinn Féin | Bairbre de Brun | 1 | +1 | 144,541 | 26.3 | |
| UUP | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 91,164 | 16.6 | |
| SDLP | Martin Morgan | 0 | -1 | 87,559 | 15.9 | |
| Independent | John Gilliland | 0 | 0 | 36,270 | 6.6 | |
| Socialist Environmental | Eamon McCann | 0 | 0 | 9,172 | 1.6 | |
| Green (NI) | Lindsay Whitcroft | 0 | 0 | 4,810 | 0.9 | |
| Turnout | 51.7 | |||||
| European Parliament election 1999: Northern Ireland [2] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| DUP | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 192,762 | 28.4 | ||
| SDLP | John Hume | 1 | 0 | 190,731 | 28.1 | ||
| UUP | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 119,507 | 17.6 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Mitchel McLaughlin | 0 | 0 | 117,643 | 17.3 | ||
| PUP | David Ervine | 0 | 0 | 22,494 | 3.31 | ||
| UK Unionist | Robert McCartney | 0 | 0 | 20,283 | 2.98 | ||
| Alliance | Sean Neeson | 0 | 0 | 14,391 | 2.12 | ||
| Natural Law | James Anderson | 0 | 0 | 998 | 0.15 | ||
| Turnout | 678,809 | ||||||
| European Parliament election 1994: Northern Ireland [3] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| DUP | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 163,246 | 29.2 | ||
| SDLP | John Hume | 1 | 0 | 161,992 | 28.9 | ||
| UUP | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 133,459 | 23.8 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Tom Hartley Dodie McGuinness Francie Molloy |
0 | 0 | 55,215 | 9.9 | ||
| Alliance | Mary Clark-Glass | 0 | 0 | 23,157 | 4.1 | ||
| Ulster Independence | Hugh Ross | 0 | 0 | 7,858 | 1.4 | ||
| Conservative | Myrtle Boal | 0 | 0 | 5,583 | 1.0 | ||
| Workers' Party | John Lowry | 0 | 0 | 2,543 | 0.5 | ||
| Labour Party NI | Niall Cusack | 0 | 0 | 2,464 | 0.4 | ||
| Natural Law | James Anderson Susannah Thompson Michael Kennedy |
0 | 0 | 2,291 | 0.4 | ||
| Peace Coalition | June Campion | 0 | 0 | 1,088 | 0.2 | ||
| Independent Ulster | David Kerr | 0 | 0 | 579 | 0.1 | ||
| Constitutional Independent NI | Robert Mooney | 0 | 0 | 400 | 0.1 | ||
| Turnout | 559,867 | ||||||
| European Parliament election 1989: Northern Ireland [4] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| DUP | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 160,110 | 30 | ||
| SDLP | John Hume | 1 | 0 | 136,335 | 25 | ||
| UUP | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 118,785 | 22 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Danny Morrison | 0 | 0 | 48,914 | 9 | ||
| Alliance | John Alderdice | 0 | 0 | 27,905 | 5 | ||
| Conservative | Myrtle Boal | 0 | 0 | 25,789 | 5 | ||
| Green | Malcolm Samuel | 0 | 0 | 6,569 | 1 | ||
| Workers' Party | Seamus Lynch | 0 | 0 | 5,590 | 1 | ||
| Labour Representation | Mark Langhammer | 0 | 0 | 3,540 | 0 | ||
| Labour '87 | Brian Caul | 0 | 0 | 1,274 | 0 | ||
| Turnout | 534,811 | ||||||
| European Parliament election 1984: Northern Ireland [5] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| DUP | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 230,251 | 33.6 | ||
| SDLP | John Hume | 1 | 0 | 151,399 | 22.1 | ||
| UUP | 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 | ||
| UPUP | 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 | ||
| Turnout | 685,317 | ||||||
| European Parliament election 1979: Northern Ireland [6] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| DUP | Ian Paisley | 1 | N/A | 170,688 | 29.8 | ||
| SDLP | John Hume | 1 | N/A | 140,622 | 25.5 | ||
| UUP | John Taylor Harry West |
1 | N/A | 125,169 | 21.9 | ||
| Alliance | Oliver Napier | 0 | N/A | 39,026 | 6.8 | ||
| Ind. Unionist | James Kilfedder | 0 | N/A | 38,198 | 6.7 | ||
| Independent | Bernadette McAliskey | 0 | N/A | 33,969 | 5.9 | ||
| United Community | David Bleakley | 0 | N/A | 9,383 | 1.6 | ||
| United Labour | Paddy Devlin | 0 | N/A | 6,122 | 1.1 | ||
| Workers' Party | Brian Brennan Francis Donnelly |
0 | N/A | 4,418 | 0.8 | ||
| Unionist Party NI | Eddie Cummings | 0 | N/A | 3,712 | 0.6 | ||
| Ulster Liberal | James Murray | 0 | N/A | 932 | 0.2 | ||
| Turnout | 572,239 | ||||||
References
- ^ The 2004 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ The 1999 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ The 1994 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ The 1989 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ The 1984 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ The 1979 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections