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Tyne and Wear (European Parliament constituency)

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Tyne and Wear
European Parliament constituency
Member stateUnited Kingdom
Created1984
Dissolved1999
MEPs1
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 (on their 1983 boundaries) of Gateshead East, Houghton and Washington, Jarrow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne East, South Shields, Sunderland North, Sunderland South, and Tyne Bridge.[1]

MEPs

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Elected Member Party
1984 Joyce Quin Labour
1989 Alan Donnelly Labour
1999 Constituency abolished: see North East England

Election results

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European Parliament election, 1984: Tyne and Wear
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Joyce Quin 89,024 60.3
Conservative Roger R Cook 39,610 26.8
Liberal Brendan P Carroll 19,081 12.9
Majority 49,414 33.5
Turnout 147,715
Labour win (new seat)
European Parliament election, 1989: Tyne and Wear
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alan Donnelly 126,682 69.3 +9.0
Conservative Nicholas C Gibbon 30,902 16.9 −9.9
Green Ralph Stather 18,107 9.9 New
SLD Peter J Arnold 6,101 3.4 −9.5
Socialist (GB) TP Kilgallon 919 0.5 New
Majority 95,780 52.4 +18.9
Turnout 182,711
Labour hold Swing
European Parliament election, 1994: Tyne and Wear
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alan Donnelly 107,604 74.4 +5.1
Conservative Ian Liddell-Grainger 19,224 13.3 −3.6
Liberal Democrats Peter J Maughan 8,706 6.0 +2.6
Green Gareth LN Edwards 4,375 3.0 −6.9
Independent Winifred E Lundgren 4,174 2.9 New
Independent Alexander W Fisken 650 0.4 New
Majority 88,380 61.1 +8.7
Turnout 144,733
Labour hold Swing

References

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  1. ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 20 January 2008.
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