Highlands and Islands (European Parliament constituency)

Highlands and Islands
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1999
MEPs	1
Sources

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.

Created for the 1979 European Parliament elections in 1979, Highlands and Islands was a single-member constituency formed from the grouping of numerous neighbouring Scottish constituencies of the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

1979-1984: Argyll; Banff; Caithness and Sutherland; Inverness; Moray and Nairn; Orkney and Shetland; Ross and Cromarty; Western Isles
1984-1999: Argyll and Bute; Caithness and Sutherland; Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber; Moray; Orkney and Shetland; Ross, Cromarty and Skye; Western Isles

Members of the European Parliament

	Member	Party
1979	Winnie Ewing	SNP
1984
1989
1994

Election results

European elections 1994: Highlands and Islands^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Winnie Ewing	74,872	58.4	+6.9
	Labour	M.M. Macmillan	19,956	15.6	+1.7
	Conservative	M.E. Tennant	15,767	12.3	–4.5
	Liberal Democrat	H.R. Morrison	12,919	10.1	+1.8
	Scottish Green	Eleanor Scott	3,140	2.4	–7.1
	UKIP	M.B.N. Carr	1,096	0.8	N/A
	Natural Law	M.F. Gilmour	522	0.4	N/A
Majority			54,916	42.8	+8.1
Turnout			128,272	39.1	–1.9
	SNP hold		Swing	+2.6

European elections 1989: Highlands and Islands^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Winnie Ewing	66,297	51.5	+9.7
	Conservative	A. McQuarrie	21,602	16.8	+0.8
	Labour	N.L. MacAskill	17,848	13.9	–0.2
	Green	M.A.O. Gregson	12,199	9.5	N/A
	Social and Liberal Democrats	N. Mitchison	10,644	8.3	-19.8
Majority			44,695	34.7	+21.0
Turnout			128,590	41.0	+2.6
	SNP hold		Swing	+4.5

European elections 1984: Highlands and Islands^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Winnie Ewing	49,410	41.8	+7.8
	Liberal	D.R. Johnston	33,133	28.1	–2.6
	Conservative	D. Webster	18,847	16.0	–10.1
	Labour	J.M.M. MacArthur	16,644	14.1	+4.9
Majority			16,277	13.7	+10.4
Turnout			118,034	38.4	–1.0
	SNP hold		Swing	+5.2

European elections 1979: Highlands and Islands^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SNP	Winnie Ewing	39,991	34.0
	Liberal	D.R. Johnston	36,109	30.7
	Conservative	M. Joughin	30,776	26.1
	Labour	J.G. Watson	10,846	9.2
Majority			3,882	3.3
Turnout			117,722	39.4
	SNP win (new seat)

References

1 2 3 4 http://www.election.demon.co.uk/epscot.html

External links

David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results

1977–1979 ← European Parliament constituencies 1979–84 → 1984–89

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Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland

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* Constituency created 1981

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