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.
Highlands and Islands | |
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European Parliament constituency | |
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Member state | United Kingdom |
Created | 1979 |
Dissolved | 1999 |
MEPs | 1 |
Sources | |
[1] |
Created for the 1979 European Parliament elections in 1979, Highlands and Islands was a single-member constituency formed from the grouping of numerous neighbouring Scottish constituencies of the UK Parliament.
Boundaries
edit1979–1984: Argyll; Banff; Caithness and Sutherland; Inverness; Moray and Nairn; Orkney and Shetland; Ross and Cromarty; Western Isles
1984–1999: Argyll and Bute; Caithness and Sutherland; Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber; Moray; Orkney and Shetland; Ross, Cromarty and Skye; Western Isles
Members of the European Parliament
editElection | Member | Party | |
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1979 | Winnie Ewing | SNP | |
1984 | |||
1989 | |||
1994 |
Election results
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Winnie Ewing | 74,872 | 58.4 | +6.9 | |
Labour | Michael M. Macmillan | 19,956 | 15.6 | +1.7 | |
Conservative | Mark E. Tennant | 15,767 | 12.3 | –4.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hamish R. Morrison | 12,919 | 10.1 | +1.8 | |
Scottish Green | Eleanor Scott | 3,140 | 2.4 | –7.1 | |
UKIP | Martin B.N. Carr | 1,096 | 0.8 | New | |
Natural Law | Margaret F. Gilmour | 522 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 54,916 | 42.8 | +8.1 | ||
Turnout | 128,272 | 39.1 | –1.9 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | +2.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Winnie Ewing | 66,297 | 51.5 | +9.7 | |
Conservative | Albert McQuarrie | 21,602 | 16.8 | +0.8 | |
Labour | N.L. MacAskill | 17,848 | 13.9 | –0.2 | |
Green | M.A.O. Gregson | 12,199 | 9.5 | New | |
SLD | Neil Mitchison | 10,644 | 8.3 | −19.8 | |
Majority | 44,695 | 34.7 | +21.0 | ||
Turnout | 128,590 | 41.0 | +2.6 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | +4.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Winnie Ewing | 49,410 | 41.8 | +7.8 | |
Liberal | D.R. Johnston | 33,133 | 28.1 | –2.6 | |
Conservative | David Webster | 18,847 | 16.0 | –10.1 | |
Labour | John M.M. MacArthur | 16,644 | 14.1 | +4.9 | |
Majority | 16,277 | 13.7 | +10.4 | ||
Turnout | 118,034 | 38.4 | –1.0 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | +5.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Winnie Ewing | 39,991 | 34.0 | ||
Liberal | D.R. Johnston | 36,109 | 30.7 | ||
Conservative | M. Joughin | 30,776 | 26.1 | ||
Labour | J.G. Watson | 10,846 | 9.2 | ||
Majority | 3,882 | 3.3 | |||
Turnout | 117,722 | 39.4 | |||
SNP win (new seat) |
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Elections to the European Parliament 1979-99: Scotland". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
External links
edit- David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results Archived 9 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine