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.
| Staffordshire West and Congleton | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
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| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1994 |
| Dissolved | 1999 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
The constituency of Staffordshire West and Congleton was one of them.
It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1983 boundaries) of Congleton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent Central, Stoke-on-Trent North, and Stoke-on-Trent South.[1]
Michael Tappin of the Labour Party was this constituency's only MEP.
MEPs
edit| Elected | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Michael Tappin | Labour | |
| 1999 | Constituency abolished: see West Midlands | ||
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Michael Tappin | 84,337 | 53.1 | ||
| Conservative | Anthony G. Brown | 44,060 | 27.7 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | H. J. (John) Stevens | 24,430 | 15.4 | ||
| Green | Damon L. Hoppe | 4,553 | 2.9 | ||
| Natural Law | P. D. M. (David) Lines | 1,403 | 0.9 | ||
| Majority | 40,277 | 25.4 | |||
| Turnout | 158,783 | 31.6 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
References
edit- ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2008.
- ^ 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 8 February 2022.
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