Northern Ireland (European Parliament constituency)
| Northern Ireland | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
| 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 three 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
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0C3A6A;" data-sort-value="Traditional Unionist Voice" | |
TUV | ||||||||
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