Sheffield (European Parliament constituency)

Sheffield
Sheffield
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	[[1979 European Parliament election in {{{memberstatelink2}}}\|1979]]
Dissolved	1999
MEPs	1
Sources
	[1]

Sheffield was a European Parliament constituency covering the City of Sheffield and parts of Derbyshire in England.

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.

When the constituency was created in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Chesterfield, Derbyshire North East, Sheffield Attercliffe, Sheffield Brightside, Sheffield Hallam, Sheffield Heeley, Sheffield Hillsborough and Sheffield Park. In 1984, Park was replaced by Sheffield Central, and the boundaries of the other constituencies changed. Larger changes occurred in 1994, when the Derbyshire constituencies were removed to Nottinghamshire North and Chesterfield and replaced by Barnsley West and Penistone.^[1]

Members of the European Parliament

Elected	Name	Party
1979	Richard Caborn style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" \|	Labour
1984	Bob Cryer style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" \|	Labour
1989	Roger Barton style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" \|	Labour

European Parliament election, 1979: Sheffield^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Caborn	77,219	50.7	N/A
	Conservative	S. L. Batiste	64,157	42.1	N/A
	Liberal	K. A. Salt	10,951	7.2	N/A
Majority			13,062	8.6	N/A
Turnout				29.4	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

European Parliament election, 1984: Sheffield^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bob Cryer	93,530	56.8	+ 6.1
	Conservative	D. R. Grayson	47,247	28.7	- 13.4
	Liberal	G. M. Holmstedt	23,935	14.5	+ 7.3
Majority			46,283	28.1	+ 19.5
Turnout				29.5	+ 0.1
	Labour hold		Swing

European Parliament election, 1989: Sheffield^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roger Barton	109,677	58.2	+ 1.4
	Conservative	T. S. R. Mort	40,401	21.4	- 7.3
	Green	P. L. Scott	26,844	14.2	N/A
	SLD	A. H. Rogers	10,910	5.8	- 8.7
	International Communist	D. E. Hyland	657	0.4	N/A
Majority			69,276	36.8	+ 8.7
Turnout				33.7	+ 4.2
	Labour hold		Swing

European Parliament election, 1994: Sheffield^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roger Barton	76,937	58.5	+ 0.3
	Liberal Democrats	S. Agninotti	26,109	19.9	+ 14.1
	Conservative	K. Twitchen	22,374	17.0	- 4.4
	Green	B. A. New	4,742	3.6	- 10.6
	International Communist	M. England	834	0.6	+ 0.2
	Natural Law	R. E. Hurford	577	0.4	N/A
Majority			50,828	38.6	+ 1.8
Turnout				27.5	- 6.2
	Labour hold		Swing