Glasgow (European Parliament constituency)

Glasgow
European Parliament constituency
European Parliament logo
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.

The constituency of Glasgow was one of them.

When it was created in Scotland in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Central, Glasgow Craigton, Glasgow Garscadden, Glasgow Govan, Glasgow Hillhead, Glasgow Kelvingrove, Glasgow Maryhill, Glasgow Pollok, Glasgow Provan, Glasgow Queen's Park, Glasgow Shettleston, Glasgow Springburn,^[1] although this may not have been true for the whole of its existence.

Members of the European Parliament

	Member	Party
1979	Janey Buchan	Labour
1984
1989
1994	Bill Miller	Labour

Election results

European elections 1994: Glasgow^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bill Miller	83,953	52.6	–2.8
	SNP	A. Brophy	40,795	25.6	+0.7
	Scottish Militant Labour	Tommy Sheridan	12,113	7.6	N/A
	Conservative	R.M. Wilkinson	10,888	6.8	–3.9
	Liberal Democrat	J. Money	7,291	4.6	+2.6
	Green	P.J. O'Brien	2,252	1.4	–4.9
	Socialist (GB)	J. Fleming	1,195	0.7	N/A
	Natural Law	M.R. Wilkinson	868	0.5	N/A
	International Communist	C. H. Marsden	381	0.2	+0.1
Majority			43,158	27.0	–3.5
Turnout			159,736	34.5	–5.4
	Labour hold		Swing	–1.8

European elections 1989: Glasgow^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Janey Buchan	107,818	55.4	–3.8
	SNP	A. Brophy	48,586	24.9	+14.2
	Conservative	A.K. Bates	20,761	10.7	–5.8
	Green	D. L. Spaven	12,229	6.3	N/A
	Social and Liberal Democrats	J. Morrison	3,887	2.0	N/A
	Communist	D. Chalmers	1,164	0.6	N/A
	International Communist	J. Simons	193	0.1	N/A
Majority			59,232	30.5	–2.2
Turnout			194,638	39.9	+10.3
	Labour hold		Swing	–9.0

European elections 1984: Glasgow^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Janey Buchan	91,015	59.2	+10.2
	Conservative	S.C. Chadd	25,282	16.5	–10.8
	Liberal	C.M. Mason	20,867	13.6	+6.3
	SNP	N.M.T.M. MacLeod	16,456	10.7	–5.7
Majority			65,733	32.7	+11.0
Turnout			153,620	29.6	+1.4
	Labour hold		Swing	+10.5

European elections 1979: Glasgow^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Janey Buchan	73,846	49.0
	Conservative	B. Vaughan	41,144	27.3
	SNP	George Leslie	24,776	16.4
	Liberal	Elspeth Attwooll	11,073	7.3
Majority			32,702	21.7
Turnout			150,704	28.2
	Labour win (new seat)

References

External links

David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results

1977–1979 ← European Parliament constituencies 1979–1984 → 1984–1989

Belgium	Dutch-speaking French-speaking

Denmark	Denmark Greenland

Ireland	Connacht–Ulster Dublin Leinster Munster

Italy	Central Islands North-East North-West Southern

United Kingdom	Bedfordshire^†2 Birmingham North^†2 Birmingham South^†2 Bristol Cambridgeshire^†2 Cheshire East Cheshire West Cleveland^†2 Cornwall and Plymouth Cotswolds Cumbria^†2 Derbyshire Devon Durham Essex North East Essex South West Glasgow Greater Manchester North^†2 Greater Manchester South Greater Manchester West Hampshire West^†2 Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire Highlands and Islands Humberside Kent East Kent West Lancashire Central Lancashire East Lancashire West^†2 Leeds Leicester Lincolnshire Liverpool^†2 London Central London East London North London North East London North West London South^†2 London South East London South Inner London South West London West Lothians Mid and West Wales Mid Scotland and Fife Midlands Central Midlands East^†2 Midlands West Norfolk North East Scotland North Wales Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumbria Nottingham Salop and Stafford^†2 Sheffield Somerset^†2 South East Wales^†2 South of Scotland South Wales Staffordshire East Strathclyde East Strathclyde West Suffolk Surrey^†2 Sussex East Sussex West Thames Valley Tyne South and Wear^†2 Upper Thames^†2 Wessex^†2 Wight and Hampshire East Yorkshire North^†2 Yorkshire South Yorkshire South West Yorkshire West

National	France Germany Greece^¤1 Luxembourg Netherlands

Key: ^¤1 Constituency created in 1981; ^†2 Constituency dissolved in 1984

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, November 11, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.