Herefordshire and Shropshire (European Parliament constituency)
Herefordshire and Shropshire | |
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European Parliament constituency | |
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Member state | United Kingdom |
Created | 1994 |
Dissolved | 1999 |
MEPs | 1 |
Sources | |
[1] |
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.
The constituency of Herefordshire and Shropshire was one of them.
It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1983 boundaries) of Hereford, Leominster, Ludlow, North Shropshire, Shrewsbury and Atcham, The Wrekin, and Wyre Forest.[1]
David Hallam of the Labour Party was the sole MEP for this constituency's entire existence. His election in 1994 was somewhat of a surprise as the area was widely assumed to be safely Conservative.
MEPs
Election | Member | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1994 | David Hallam | Labour |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Hallam | 76,120 | 36.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Sir Christopher Prout | 74,270 | 35.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | J.Y. Gallagher | 44,130 | 21.2 | N/A | |
Green | Miss F.M. Norman | 11,578 | 5.6 | N/A | |
Natural Law | T.W. Mercer | 1,480 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,850 | 0.9 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
References
- ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 2008-01-20.
External links
Template:European Parliament constituencies 1994-1999