North East Scotland (European Parliament constituency)

North East Scotland
European Parliament constituency
Boundary within Scotland (1979-1984)
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 North East Scotland was one of them.

Boundary within Scotland (1984-1999)

Boundaries

1979-1984: Aberdeen North, Aberdeen South, Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns, Angus South, Dundee East, Dundee West, ^[1]
1984-1999: Aberdeen North, Aberdeen South, Angus East, Banff and Buchan, Dundee East, Dundee West, Gordon, Kincardine and Deeside, North Tayside ^[2]

Members of the European Parliament

Elected		Member	Party
	1979	James Provan	Conservative
	1984
	1989	Henry McCubbin	Labour
	1994	Allan Macartney	SNP
	1998 (b)	Ian Hudghton	SNP

Election results

1998 By-election: North East Scotland ^{[3] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Ian Hudghton	57,445	48.0	+5.2
	Conservative	Struan Stevenson	23,744	19.9	+1.3
	Labour	Kathleen Walker-Shaw	22,086	18.5	–9.9
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Raffan	11,753	9.8	+1.5
	Scottish Socialist	Harvey Duke	2,510	2.1	New
	Scottish Green	Robin Harper	2,067	1.7	+0.5
Majority			33,701	28.1	+13.7
Turnout			119,605	20.5	–17.2
	SNP hold		Swing	+7.6

European elections 1994: North East Scotland ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Allan Macartney	92,892	42.8	+13.4
	Labour	Henry McCubbin	61,665	28.4	–2.2
	Conservative	Ronald O. Harris	40,372	18.6	–8.1
	Liberal Democrats	Simon A. Horner	18,008	8.3	+2.3
	Scottish Green	Keith D. Farnsworth	2,559	1.2	–6.1
	Communist	Mary M. Ward	689	0.3	New
	Independent	Lewis R. Mair	584	0.2	New
	Natural Law	Duncan J. Paterson	371	0.2	New
Majority			31,227	14.4	N/A
Turnout			217,140	37.7	–0.7
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing	+7.7

European elections 1989: North East Scotland ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry McCubbin	65,348	30.6	+2.2
	SNP	Allan Macartney	62,735	29.4	+8.2
	Conservative	James Provan	56,835	26.7	–7.5
	Green	E.M. (Mark) Hill	15,584	7.3	New
	SLD	Simon A. Horner	12,704	6.0	−10.2
Majority			2,613	1.2	N/A
Turnout			213,206	38.4	+9.7
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+4.9

European elections 1984: North East Scotland ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Provan	53,809	34.2	+1.2
	Labour	Frank Doran	44,648	28.4	+4.2
	SNP	Daniel Hood	33,448	21.2	+2.9
	SDP	Ian G. Philip	25,490	16.2	New
Majority			9,161	5.8	–2.7
Turnout			157,395	28.7	–4.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	–1.5

European elections 1979: North East Scotland ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Provan	51,930	33.0
	Liberal	Lord Mackie of Benshie	38,516	24.5
	Labour	D.E. Clyne	38,139	24.2
	SNP	Colin Bell	28,886	18.3
Majority			13,414	8.5
Turnout			157,471	32.7
	Conservative win (new seat)

References

1. "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results" . Retrieved 20 January 2008.
2. "European Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries" . Retrieved 13 March 2019.
3. Grice, Andrew (28 November 1998). "Politics: Euro Election: Woofie factor sees off Labour in Scots poll" . The Independent . Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
4. "Elections to the European Parliament 1979-99: Scotland". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2009.

External links

• David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results