Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European Parliament 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.
Wight and Hampshire South | |
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European Parliament constituency | |
Member state | United Kingdom |
Created | 1994 |
Dissolved | 1999 |
MEPs | 1 |
Sources | |
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The constituency of Wight and Hampshire South was one of them.
It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1983 boundaries) of Fareham, Gosport, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth North, Portsmouth South, and Winchester.
Members of the European Parliament
editElected | Member | Party | |
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1994 | Roy Perry | Conservative | |
1999 | Constituency abolished: see South East England |
Election results
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Roy Perry | 63,306 | 34.9 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Mike Hancock | 58,205 | 32.0 | ||
Labour | Miss S-L. Fry | 40,442 | 22.3 | ||
Independent | J. E. D. D. Browne | 12,140 | 6.7 | ||
Green | Paul A. Fuller | 6,697 | 3.7 | ||
Natural Law | William A. Treend | 722 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 5,101 | 2.9 | |||
Turnout | 181,512 | 37.2 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
References
edit- ^ Boothroyd, David (21 August 2020). "United Kingdom European Parliamentary Election results 1979-99: England 2". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
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