European Parliament election, 1989 (United Kingdom)

United Kingdom European Parliament election, 1989

15 June 1989

	First party	Second party

Leader	Neil Kinnock	Margaret Thatcher
Party	Labour	Conservative
Alliance	PES	EPP
Leader since	2 October 1983	11 February 1975
Last election	32 seats, 34.8%	45 seats, 38.8%
Seats won	45	32
Seat change	13	13
Popular vote	6,153,640	5,331,077
Percentage	38.7%	33.7%
Swing	3.9%	5.1%

Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.

Leader of Largest Party before election

Margaret Thatcher
Conservative

Subsequent Leader of Largest Party

Neil Kinnock
Labour

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The European Parliament Election, 1989 was the third European election to be held in the United Kingdom. It was held on 15 June. The electoral system was First Past the Post in England, Scotland and Wales and Single Transferable Vote in Northern Ireland. The turnout was again the lowest in Europe.

This election saw the best performance ever by the Green Party (UK) (formerly the Ecology Party), collecting over 2 million votes and 15% of the vote share. It had only received 70,853 as the Ecology Party in the previous election. However, because of First Past the Post system, the Green Party did not gain a single MEP, while the Scottish National Party received 1 seat with only 3% of the vote share. The Green Party's vote total of 2,299,287 remains its best performance in a national election, as does its percentage result of 14.5%. To date, it is the most recent election in which the Greens polled in excess of 2 million votes.

The election also saw Labour overtake the Conservatives for the first time in any election since October 1974 and the first time ever in a European election, winning 13 more seats.

Overall (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) turnout: 36% (EU average: 59%)
Overall votes cast: 15,896,078

Results (UK-wide)

	Votes won^[1]	% of vote	Loss/Gain	Seats	% of seats	Loss/Gain
Labour	6,153,661	38.7	+3.9	45	55.6	+13
Conservative	5,356,887	33.7	-5.1	32	39.5	-13
Green	2,299,287	14.5	+14.0	0	—	—
Social and Liberal Democrats	944,861	5.9	-12.6	0	—	—
SNP	406,686	2.6	+1.0	1	1.2	±0
DUP	160,110	1.0	-0.6	1	1.2	±0
SDLP	136,335	0.9	-0.2	1	1.2	±0
UUP	118,785	0.7	-0.4	1	1.2	±0
Plaid Cymru	115,062	0.7	-0.1	0	—	—
Social Democratic	75,886	0.5	New	0	—	—
Sinn Féin	48,914	0.3	-0.4	0	—	—
Alliance	27,905	0.2	±0.0	0	—	—
Independent	12,724	0.1	±0.0	0	—	—
Independent Conservative	6,996	0.0	±0.0	0	—	—
Workers' Party	5,590	0.0	-0.1	0	—	—
Labour Representation Group	3,540	0.0	New	0	—	—
Communist	4,420	0.0	New	0	—	—
Monster Raving Loony	4,263	0.0	New	0	—	—
Mebyon Kernow	4,224	0.0	New	0	—	—
Wessex Regionalist	2,332	0.0	±0.0	0	—	—
International Communist	1,567	0.0	New	0	—	—
National Front	1,471	0.0	New	0	—	—
Humanist	1,349	0.0	New	0	—	—
Labour Party NI	1,274	0.0	New	0	—	—
Socialist (GB)	919	0.0	New	0	—	—
Corrective	707	0.0	New	0	—	—
Communist League	323	0.0	New	0	—	—

Results breakdown

England, Scotland and Wales

	Votes won^[2]	% of vote	Loss/Gain	Seats	% of seats	Loss/Gain
Labour	6,153,661	40.1	+3.6	45	57.7	+13
Conservative	5,331,098	34.7	-6.1	32	41.0	-13
Green	2,292,718	14.9	+14.4	0	—	—
Social and Liberal Democrats	944,861	6.2	-13.3	0	—	—
SNP	406,686	2.6	+0.9	1	1.3	±0
Plaid Cymru	115,062	0.7	-0.1	0	—	—
Social Democratic	75,886	0.5	New	0	—	—
Independent	12,724	0.1	±0.0	0	—	—
Independent Conservative	6,996	0.0	±0.0	0	—	—
Communist	4,420	0.0	New	0	—	—
Monster Raving Loony	4,263	0.0	New	0	—	—
Mebyon Kernow	4,224	0.0	New	0	—	—
Wessex Regionalist	2,332	0.0	±0.0	0	—	—
International Communist	1,567	0.0	New	0	—	—
National Front	1,471	0.0	New	0	—	—
Humanist	1,349	0.0	New	0	—	—
Socialist (GB)	919	0.0	New	0	—	—
Corrective	707	0.0	New	0	—	—
Communist League	323	0.0	New	0	—	—

Total votes cast: 15,361,267

Northern Ireland

Party		Candidate(s)	Seats	Loss/Gain	First Preference Votes^[3]
Party		Candidate(s)	Seats	Loss/Gain	Number	% of vote
	DUP	Ian Paisley	1	0	160,110	29.9
	SDLP	John Hume	1	0	136,335	25.5
	UUP	Jim Nicholson	1	0	118,785	22.2
	Sinn Féin	Danny Morrison	0	0	48,914	9.1
	Alliance	John Alderdice	0	0	27,905	5.2
	NI Conservatives	Myrtle Boal	0	0	25,789	4.8
	Green	Malcolm Samuel	0	0	6,569	1.0
	Workers' Party	Seamus Lynch	0	0	5,590	1
	Labour Representation	Mark Langhammer	0	0	3,540	0
	Labour '87	Brian Caul	0	0	1,274	0

Total votes cast - 534,811.

Party Leaders in 1989

Labour - Neil Kinnock
Conservative - Margaret Thatcher
Green - N/A (the Green Party did not have a leader)
Liberal Democrat - Paddy Ashdown
SNP - Gordon Wilson
Plaid Cymru - Dafydd Elis Thomas
DUP - Ian Paisley
SDLP - John Hume
UUP - James Molyneaux

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