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Itchen, Test and Avon (European Parliament constituency)

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Itchen, Test and Avon
European Parliament constituency
Member stateUnited Kingdom
Created1994
Dissolved1999
MEPs1
Sources
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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 Itchen, Test and Avon was one of them.

It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1983 boundaries) of Christchurch, Eastleigh, New Forest, Romsey and Waterside, Salisbury, Southampton Itchen, and Southampton Test.[1]

MEPs

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Election Member Party
1994 Edward Kellett-Bowman Conservative

Election results

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Itchen, Test and Avon, European Parliament election, 1994[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Conservative Edward Kellett-Bowman 81,456 35.4
Liberal Democrats A.D. (Tony) Barron 74,553 32.4
Labour Edward V. Read 52,416 22.7
UKIP Nigel Farage 12,423 5.4
Green Fiona Hulbert 7,998 3.5
Natural Law Adam D. Miller-Smith 1,368 0.6
Majority 6,903 3.0
Turnout 230,214 41.8
Total votes 550,406 100.0
Conservative win (new seat)

References

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  1. ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2008.
  2. ^ United Kingdom European Parliamentary Election results 1979-99: England
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