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.
Lincolnshire | |
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European Parliament constituency | |
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Member state | United Kingdom |
Created | 1979 |
Dissolved | 1994 |
MEPs | 1 |
Sources | |
[1] |
The constituency of Lincolnshire was one of them.
When it was created in England in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Gainsborough, Grantham, Grimsby, Holland with Boston, Horncastle, Lincoln, Louth, Rutland and Stamford,[1] although this may not have been true for the whole of its existence.
MEPs
editElected | Member | Party | |
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1979 | Bill Newton Dunn | Conservative | |
1994 | Constituency abolished |
Election results
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Bill Newton Dunn | 104,460 | 61.5 | ||
Labour | Carl A. James | 44,616 | 26.3 | ||
Liberal | C. W. Phillips | 20,815 | 12.2 | ||
Majority | 59,844 | 35.2 | |||
Turnout | 169,891 | 31.3 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bill Newton Dunn | 92,606 | 52.3 | −9.2 | |
Labour | Chris W. Sewell | 47,161 | 26.7 | +0.4 | |
Liberal | Gavin B. Purves | 37,244 | 21.0 | +8.8 | |
Majority | 45,445 | 25.6 | |||
Turnout | 177,011 | 32.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bill Newton Dunn | 92,043 | 45.4 | −6.9 | |
Labour | Steven Taggart | 71,393 | 35.2 | +8.5 | |
Green | Miss J. S. Steranka | 24,908 | 12.3 | New | |
SLD | James P. Heppell | 14,341 | 7.1 | −13.9 | |
Majority | 20,650 | 10.2 | −15.4 | ||
Turnout | 202,685 | 34.6 | +2.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
References
edit- ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 20 January 2008.
- ^ a b c Boothroyd, David (11 April 2003). "United Kingdom European Parliamentary Election results 1979-99: England 1". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 11 April 2003. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
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