Tyne and Wear (European Parliament constituency)
| Tyne and Wear | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
 European Parliament logo | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1984 |
| Dissolved | 1999 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
Prior to its uniform adoption of
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
MEPs
| Elected | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Joyce Quin
|
Labour | |
| 1989 | Alan Donnelly | Labour | |
| 1999 | Constituency abolished: see North East England | ||
Election results
| 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) | |||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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
- ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 20 January 2008.
External links
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