Tyne and Wear (European Parliament constituency)

Tyne and Wear
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	[[1984 European Parliament election in {{{memberstatelink2}}}|1984]]
Dissolved	1999
MEPs	1
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 Tyne and Wear was one of them.

It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Gateshead East, Houghton and Washington, Jarrow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne East, South Shields, Sunderland North, Sunderland South, and Tyne Bridge,

Election results

European Parliament election, 1984: Tyne and Wear

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joyce Quin	89,024	60.3
	Conservative	RR Cook	39,610	26.8
	Liberal	BP Carroll	19,081	12.9
Majority			49,414	33.5
Turnout

European Parliament election, 1989: Tyne and Wear

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Donnelly	126,682	69.3
	Conservative	NC Gibbon	30,902	16.9
	Green	R Stather	18,107	9.9
	SLD	Peter J Arnold	6,101	3.4
	Socialist (GB)	TP Kilgallon	919	0.5
Majority			95,780	52.4
Turnout

European Parliament election, 1994: Tyne and Wear

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Donnelly	107,604	74.4
	Conservative	IRP Liddell-Grainger	19,224	13.3
	Liberal Democrats	PJ Maughan	8,706	6.0
	Green	GLN Edwards	4,375	3.0
	Independent (Politician)	WE Lundgren	4,174	2.9
	Independent (Politician)	AW Fisken	650	0.4
Majority			88,380
Turnout

External links

• David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results