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.
| Lancashire South | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
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| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1994 |
| Dissolved | 1999 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
The constituency of Lancashire South was one of them.
When it was created in England in 1994, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Blackburn, Bury North, Chorley, Hyndburn, Rossendale and Darwen, South Ribble, West Lancashire.[1]
MEPs
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Michael Hindley | Labour | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Michael Hindley | 92,598 | 54.3 | ||
| Conservative | C.R. (Richard) Topham | 51,194 | 30.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | J.A. Ault | 17,008 | 10.0 | ||
| Green | J.E. Gaffney | 4,774 | 2.8 | ||
| Independent | Mrs. Eva Rokas | 3,439 | 2.0 | ||
| Natural Law | John C. Renwick | 1,605 | 0.9 | ||
| Majority | 41,404 | 24.3 | |||
| Turnout | 170,618 | ||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||