Cotswolds (European Parliament constituency)
Cotswolds | |
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European Parliament constituency | |
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Member state | United Kingdom |
Created | 1979 |
Dissolved | 1999 |
MEPs | 1 |
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Before uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in Great Britain. 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 Cotswolds (sometimes called "The Cotswolds") was one of them.
When it was created in England in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Banbury, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Mid-Oxon, Oxford and Stroud.[1] From 1984 it consisted of Banbury, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Stratford-on-Avon, Stroud and Witney. From 1994 it consisted of Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Stroud, West Gloucestershire and Witney.
Members of the European Parliament
Elected | Name | Party | |
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1979 | Sir Henry (later Lord) Plumb | Conservative |
Election results
European Parliament election 1979 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Sir Henry Plumb | 109,139 | 58.6 | ||
Labour | J.A. Honeybone | 37,713 | 20.3 | ||
Liberal | Miss M.E. Burton | 27,916 | 15.0 | ||
United Against the Common Market | D.C.T. Bennett | 11,422 | 6.1 | ||
Majority | 71,426 | 38.3 | |||
European Parliament election 1984 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Sir Henry Plumb | 94,740 | 53.5 | ||
Liberal | Miss M.E. Burton | 45,798 | 25.8 | ||
Labour | Mrs. J.A. Royall | 36,738 | 20.7 | ||
Majority | 48,942 | 27.7 | |||
European Parliament election, 1989 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Lord Plumb | 94,852 | 45.1 | ||
Green | Mrs. M.S. Limb | 49,174 | 23.4 | ||
Labour | T. Levitt | 48,180 | 22.9 | ||
Social and Liberal Democrats | L.A. Rowe | 18,196 | 8.6 | ||
Majority | 45,678 | 21.7 | |||
European Parliament election,1994 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Lord Plumb | 67,484 | 34.5 | ||
Labour | Mrs. T.J. Kingham | 63,216 | 32.3 | ||
Liberal Democrat | J.C. Thomson | 44,269 | 22.7 | ||
New Britain | M.D. Rendell | 11,044 | 5.7 | ||
Green | D. McCanlis | 8,254 | 4.2 | ||
Natural Law | H.W. Brighouse | 1,151 | 0.6 | ||
Majority | 4,268 | 2.2 | |||
References
- ↑ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 2008-01-20.