Wessex | |
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European Parliament constituency | |
Member state | United Kingdom |
Created | 1979 |
Dissolved | 1984 |
MEPs | 1 |
Sources | |
Wessex was a European Parliament constituency covering all of Dorset in England, plus parts of western Hampshire and southern Wiltshire. It was named after the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Wessex.
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 consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Bournemouth East, Bournemouth West, Christchurch and Lymington, North Dorset, Poole, South Dorset, Westbury and West Dorset. [1]
The constituency was replaced by much of Dorset East and Hampshire West and parts of Somerset and Dorset West and Wiltshire in 1984. Following further changes, these seats became part of the much larger South West England and South East England constituencies in 1999.
Elected | Name | Party | |
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1979 | James Spicer | Conservative | |
1984 | Constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Spicer | 130,744 | 63.3 | ||
Labour | John Goss | 42,910 | 20.8 | ||
Liberal | W. M. Duncan | 31,220 | 15.1 | ||
Wessex Regionalist | Viscount Weymouth | 1,706 | 0.8 | ||
Majority | 87,834 | 42.5 | |||
Turnout | 206,580 | 37.2 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
The Wessex Regionalists are a minor English regionalist political party in the United Kingdom. It seeks a degree of legislative and administrative home rule for Wessex, an area in the south and south-west of England loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the same name.
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