Durham (European Parliament constituency)

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Durham
European Parliament constituency
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Member state United Kingdom
Created 1979
Dissolved 1999
MEPs 1
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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.

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The constituency of Durham was one of them.

From 1979 to 1984, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Bishop Auckland, Chester-le-Street, Consett, Darlington, Durham, Durham North West, Easington, and Houghton-le-Spring. [1] From 1984 to 1999 it consisted of: Bishop Auckland, Blaydon, City of Durham, Darlington, Easington, North Durham, North West Durham, Sedgefield.

Members of the European Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1979 Roland Boyes Labour
1984 Stephen Hughes
1989
1994
1999 Constituency abolished: see North East England

Election results

European elections 1979: Durham [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Roland Boyes 81,982 54.2
Conservative R. Sheaf53,04335.1
Liberal Chris Foote Wood16,09410.7
Majority28,93919.1
Turnout 151,02927.7
Labour hold Swing
European elections 1984: Durham [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stephen Hughes 106,073 57.9 +3.7
Conservative Hon. W.R.F. Vane 44,84624.5-10.6
Liberal Chris Foote Wood32,30717.6+6.9
Majority61,22733.4+14.3
Turnout 183,22634.6+6.9
Labour hold Swing
European elections 1989: Durham [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stephen Hughes 124,448 65.8 +7.9
Conservative R. Hull37,60019.9-4.6
Green Miss H.I. Lennox18,7709.9New
SLD Peter Freitag8,3694.4-13.2
Majority86,84845.9+11.5
Turnout 189,18735.7+1.1
Labour hold Swing
European elections 1994: Durham [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stephen Hughes 136,671 72.1 +6.3
Conservative Philip Bradbourn 25,03313.2-6.7
Liberal Democrats Nigel Martin 20,93511.1+6.7
Green Simeon R. Hope5,6703.0-6.9
Natural Law Christopher J. Adamson1,1980.6New
Majority111,63858.9+13.0
Turnout 532,05135.6-0.1
Labour hold Swing

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References

  1. "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results" . Retrieved 20 January 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Elections to the European Parliament 1979-99, part 1". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2009.