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1994 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

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The 1994 European Parliament election was the fourth European election to be held in the United Kingdom. It was held on Thursday 9 June, though, as usual, the ballots were not counted until the evening of Sunday 12 June. The electoral system was, for the final European election, first past the post in England, Scotland and Wales and single transferable vote in Northern Ireland. This was the first election with 87 MEPs, the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993 having increased the number of seats for the UK from 81. For the first time, the UK did not have the lowest turnout in Europe. Turnout was lower in the Netherlands and Portugal.

1994 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
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87 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout36.4% (Steady)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Con
Leader Pauline Green Christopher Prout Robert Teverson
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Alliance PES EPP ALDE
Leader's seat London North Shropshire and Stafford (defeated) Cornwall and West Plymouth
Last election 45 seats, 38.7% 32 seats, 33.7% 0 seats, 5.9%
Seats won 62 18 2
Seat change Increase17 Decrease13 Increase2
Popular vote 6,753,881 4,274,122 2,557,887
Percentage 42.6% 26.8% 16.1%
Swing Increase3.9% Decrease6.7% Increase10.2%
  Fourth party
 
Leader Alex Salmond
Party SNP
Alliance European Free Alliance
Leader since 22 September 1990
Leader's seat N/A
Last election 1 seat, 2.6%
Seats before 1
Seats won 2
Seat change Increase1
Popular vote 487,237
Percentage 3.1
Swing Increase0.5%
Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.
Leader of Largest Party before election

Margaret Beckett
Labour

Subsequent Leader of Largest Party

Margaret Beckett
Labour

This was the first European election contested by the recently formed UK Independence Party (UKIP), and the first European election in which the Liberal Democrats won seats. The Green Party lost more than three-quarters of the votes they secured in the previous election. The Conservatives lost 14 seats, taking their number of seats down to 18, which was 42 fewer seats than in the 1979 election, the year they defeated the Labour Party in the 1979 General Election. This reflected the general unpopularity of the Major government at the time.

Five by-elections to the British Parliament also took place on the same day in the Barking, Bradford South, Dagenham, Eastleigh, and Newham North East constituencies. The Conservatives lost Eastleigh to the Liberal Democrats; Labour would hold the other four.

Labour was under the interim leadership of Margaret Beckett following the sudden death of leader John Smith the previous month.

Results edit

United Kingdom edit

Sources:

  • "European Parliament elections: 1979 to 1994". House of Commons Library.
  • United Kingdom election results Archived 27 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine
Party Votes won[1] % of vote Loss/Gain Seats % of seats Loss/Gain
Labour 6,753,881 42.6  3.9 62 71.3  17
Conservative 4,274,122 26.8  6.7 18 20.7  13
Liberal Democrats 2,557,887 16.1  10.2 2 2.3  2
SNP 487,237 3.1  0.5 2 2.3  1
Green 471,257 3.0  11.5 0    
DUP 163,246 1.0   1 1.1  
Plaid Cymru 162,478 1.0  0.3 0    
SDLP 161,992 1.0  0.2 1 1.1  
Independent 153,917 1.0  0.9 0    
UKIP 150,251 1.0 New 0    
Ulster Unionist 133,459 0.8  0.1 1 1.1  
Liberal 100,500 0.6 New 0    
Natural Law 98,845 0.6 New 0    
Sinn Féin 55,215 0.3   0    
Scottish Green 23,304 0.1 New 0    
Alliance 23,157 0.1   0    
National Front 12,469 0.1  0.1 0    
Moderate Labour 12,113 0.1 New 0    
Literal Democrat 10,203 0.1 New 0    
Ulster Independence 7,858 0.1 New 0    
Monster Raving Loony 7,798 0.1   0    
Ind. Conservative 5,847 0.0   0    
Independent Socialist 5,071 0.0 New 0    
Communist 4,323 0.0   0    
Mebyon Kernow 3,315 0.0   0    
Workers' Party 2,543 0.0   0    
Labour Party NI 2,464 0.0   0    
Other 7,837 0.1 N/A 0    

Total votes cast – 15,852,589. All parties shown.

Great Britain edit

 
Map of the Scottish results.

Sources:

Party Votes won[1] % of vote Loss/Gain Seats % of seats Loss/Gain
Labour 6,753,881 44.2  4.1 62 73.8  17
Conservative 4,268,539 27.8  6.8 18 21.4  13
Liberal Democrats 2,557,887 16.7  10.6 2 2.4  2
SNP 487,237 3.2  0.5 2 2.4  1
Green 471,257 3.1  11.8 0    
Plaid Cymru 162,478 1.1  0.3 0    
Independent 151,858 1.0  0.9 0    
UKIP 150,251 1.0 New 0    
Liberal 100,500 0.7 New 0    
Natural Law 96,554 0.6 New 0    
Scottish Green 23,304 0.2 New 0    
National Front 12,469 0.1 New 0    
Moderate Labour 12,113 0.1 New 0    
Literal Democrat 10,203 0.1 New 0    
Monster Raving Loony 7,798 0.1   0    
Ind. Conservative 5,847 0.0   0    
Independent Socialist 5,071 0.0 New 0    
Communist 4,323 0.0   0    
Mebyon Kernow 3,315 0.0   0    
Other 7,837 0.1 N/A 0    

Total votes cast – 15,292,722. All parties shown.

Northern Ireland edit

 
Map of Northern Irish results
European Parliament election, 1994 (United Kingdom): Northern Ireland – 3 seats[2][3]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2
DUP Ian Paisley 29.2 163,246  
SDLP John Hume 28.9 161,992  
Ulster Unionist Jim Nicholson 23.8 133,459 149,541.25
Alliance Mary Clark-Glass 4.1 23,157 23,375.55
Sinn Féin Tom Hartley 3.8 21,273 21,278.10
Sinn Féin Dodie McGuinness 3.1 17,195 17,238.95
Sinn Féin Francie Molloy 3.0 16,747 16.756.60
Ulster Independence Hugh Ross 1.4 7,858 12,575.05
NI Conservatives Myrtle Boal 1.0 5,583 6,106.95
Workers' Party John Lowry 0.5 2,543 2,579.00
Labour Party NI Niall Cusack 0.4 2,464 2,518.90
Natural Law James Anderson 0.2 1,418 1,492.70
Independent June Campion 0.2 1,088 1,127.15
Independent David Kerr 0.1 571 877.15
Natural Law Susannah Thompson 0.1 454 534.40
Independent Robert Mooney 0.1 400 455.95
Natural Law Michael Kennedy 0.1 419 443.90
Electorate: 1,151,389   Valid: 559,867   Spoilt: 9,234   Quota: 139,967   Turnout: 49.4%  
  • Note 1: Campion's candidacy, with the ballot paper description 'Peace Coalition', was supported by Democratic Left, the Greens and some Labour groups.
  • Note 2: Kerr appeared on the ballot paper with the description Independence for Ulster.
  • Note 3: Mooney appeared on the ballot paper with the description Constitutional Independent Northern Ireland.

MEPs retiring edit

Conservative edit

Labour edit

MEPs defeated edit

Labour edit

Conservative edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "European Parliament elections: 1979 to 1994". House of Commons Library.
  2. ^ The 1994 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
  3. ^ [1], Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive
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