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.
| Birmingham West | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
 European Parliament logo | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1984 |
| Dissolved | 1999 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
The constituency of Birmingham West was one of them.
It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1983 boundaries) of Aldridge-Brownhills, Birmingham Ladywood, Birmingham Perry Barr, Sutton Coldfield, Walsall North, Walsall South, West Bromwich East, and West Bromwich West.[2]
MEPs edit
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | John Tomlinson | Labour | |
| 1999 | Constituency abolished: see West Midlands | ||
Elections edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Tomlinson | 61,946 | 45.2 | ||
| Conservative | Colin R.C. Hart | 55,702 | 40.6 | ||
| SDP | Joseph C Binns | 19,422 | 14.2 | ||
| Majority | 5,237 | 4.6 | |||
| Turnout | 137,070 | 27.3 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Tomlinson | 86,545 | 50.5 | +5.3 | |
| Conservative | Charles Francis Robinson | 55,685 | 32.5 | -7.9 | |
| Green | John D Bentley | 21,384 | 12.5 | New | |
| SLD | Stewart Reynolds | 7,673 | 4.5 | -9.7 | |
| Majority | 30,860 | 18.0 | +13.4 | ||
| Turnout | 171,287 | 33.2 | +5.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Tomlinson | 77,957 | 53.7 | +3.2 | |
| Conservative | David M. Harman | 38,607 | 26.6 | -5.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Nicholas DM McGeorge | 14,603 | 10.0 | -5.5 | |
| UKIP | Dr Bernard A Juby | 5,237 | 3.6 | New | |
| Green | Murray G Abbott | 4,367 | 3.0 | -9.5 | |
| National Front | Andrew Carmichael | 3,727 | 2.6 | New | |
| Natural Law | Huw S Meads | 789 | 0.5 | New | |
| Majority | 39,350 | 27.1 | +9.1 | ||
| Turnout | 145,287 | 28.5 | -4.7 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Elections to the European Parliament 1979-99, part 1". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2008.
External links edit
- David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results Archived 2008-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
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