Merseyside East and Wigan (European Parliament constituency)

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Merseyside East and Wigan
European Parliament constituency
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Boundary within North West England (1994-1999)
Member state United Kingdom
Created 1994
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.

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The constituency of Merseyside East and Wigan was one of them.

It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Knowsley North, Knowsley South, Leigh, Liverpool Garston, Makerfield, St Helens North, St Helens South, and Wigan. [1]

MEPs

ElectedMemberParty
1994 Terry Wynn Labour
1999 Constituency abolished: see North West England

Election results

European Parliament election, 1994: Merseyside East and Wigan [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Terry Wynn 91,986 72.0
Conservative Cole D. Manson17,89914.0
Liberal Democrats Mrs. H. F. (Flo) Clucas8,8746.9
Liberal Joseph Melia4,7653.7
Green Lawrence Brown3,2802.6
Natural Law Guy D. Hatchard1,0090.8
Majority74,08758.0
Turnout 127,81324.7
Labour win (new seat)

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References

  1. ↑ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results" . Retrieved 20 January 2008.
  2. ↑ Boothroyd, David (21 August 2020). "United Kingdom European Parliamentary Election results 1979-99: England 2". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2022.


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