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Tyne South and Wear (European Parliament constituency)

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Tyne South and Wear
European Parliament constituency
Member stateUnited Kingdom
Created1979
Dissolved1984
MEPs1
Sources
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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 of Tyne South and Wear was one of them.

It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1974 boundaries) of Blaydon, Gateshead East, Gateshead West, Jarrow, South Shields, Sunderland North, Sunderland South, and Tynemouth.[1]

Member of the European Parliament

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Elected Name Party
1979 Joyce Quin Labour
1984 Constituency abolished

Results

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European Parliament election, 1979: Tyne South and Wear[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Joyce Quin 73,936 49.2
Conservative J. Landau 67,475 44.9
Liberal Peter Freitag 8,958 5.9
Majority 6,461 4.3
Turnout 150,369 29.8
Labour win (new seat)

References

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  1. ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 20 January 2008.
  2. ^ United Kingdom European Parliamentary Election results 1979-99: England: Part 2
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