Tyne South and Wear (European Parliament constituency)
| Tyne South and Wear | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
 European Parliament logo | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1979 |
| Dissolved | 1984 |
| 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 Tyne South and Wear was one of them.
When it was created in England in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Blaydon, Gateshead East, Gateshead West, Jarrow, South Shields, Sunderland North, Sunderland South, Tynemouth.[1]
Member of the European Parliament
| Elected | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Joyce Quin
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Labour | |
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Joyce Quin | 73,936 | 49.2 | ||
| Conservative | J. Landau | 67,475 | 44.9 | ||
| Liberal | P. Freitag | 8,958 | 5.9 | ||
| Majority | 6,461 | 4.3 | |||
| Turnout | 150,369 | 29.8 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
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