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.
| Wight and Hampshire East | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
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| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1979 |
| Dissolved | 1994 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
The constituency of Wight and Hampshire East was one of them.
It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Aldershot, Fareham, Farnham, Gosport, Isle of Wight, Petersfield, Portsmouth North, and Portsmouth South.[1]
Members of the European Parliament
| Elected | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Stanley Johnson | Conservative | |
| 1984 | Richard Simmonds | Conservative | |
| 1994 | Constituency abolished | ||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Stanley Johnson | 128,414 | 64.7 | ||
| Liberal | Baroness Seear | 35,248 | 17.7 | ||
| Labour | L. F. Bennett | 34,901 | 17.6 | ||
| Majority | 93,166 | 47.0 | |||
| Turnout | 198,563 | 34.5 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Richard Simmonds | 96,666 | 51.7 | -13.0 | |
| Liberal | Miss S. A. Ludford | 53,738 | 28.8 | +11.1 | |
| Labour | Jim A. Phillips | 36,445 | 19.5 | +1.9 | |
| Majority | 42,928 | 22.9 | -24.1 | ||
| Turnout | 186,849 | 34.3 | -0.2 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Richard Simmonds | 90,658 | 44.9 | -6.8 | |
| Labour | Alan D. Burnett | 51,228 | 25.3 | +5.8 | |
| Green | Steven L. Rackett | 40,664 | 20.1 | New | |
| SLD | Miss Viv A. Rayner | 19,569 | 9.7 | -19.1 | |
| Majority | 39,430 | 19.6 | -3.3 | ||
| Turnout | 202,119 | 35.2 | +0.9 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||