Midlands East (European Parliament constituency)

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.

Midlands East
European Parliament constituency
Member stateUnited Kingdom
Created1979
Dissolved1984
MEPs1
Sources

The constituency of Midlands East was one of them.

It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (under the terms of The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1970, which had taken effect at the February 1974 general election) of Blaby, Bosworth, Loughborough, Meriden, Nuneaton, and Rugby.[1]

Members of the European Parliament
ElectedMembers[2]Party
1979 John Taylor Conservative

Results
European Parliament election, 1979: Midlands East[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Taylor 85,098 55.3
Labour T.R. O’Sullivan 53,935 35.1
Liberal G.A. Gopsill 14,819 9.6
Majority 31,163 20.2
Turnout 153,852 32.3
Conservative win (new seat)

References
  1. "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 20 January 2008.
  2. http://www.election.demon.co.uk/eplon.html
  3. United Kingdom European Parliamentary Election results 1979–99: Part 2


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