Devon (European Parliament constituency)

Devon
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1994
MEPs	1
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Devon was a European Parliament constituency covering all of Devon in England, with the exception of the city of Plymouth.

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.

When it was created in England in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Devon North, Devon West, Exeter, Honiton, Tiverton, Torbay and Totnes. In 1984, Totnes was replaced by South Hams and Teignbridge, while Devon West was replaced by Devon West and Torridge.^[1] During the fifteen-year existence of the Devon European Parliamentary constituency, it was represented by Charles Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan, until his resignation in 1994.

The constituency was replaced by Devon and East Plymouth and parts of Dorset and East Devon and Somerset and North Devon in 1994. These seats became part of the much larger South West England constituency in 1999.

Members of the European Parliament

Elected	Name	Party
1979	Lord O'Hagan		Conservative

European Parliament election, 1979: Devon^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Lord O'Hagan	127,032	61.8	N/A
	Liberal	Ted Pinney	41,010	20.0	N/A
	Labour	R. C. J. Scott	37,380	18.2	N/A
Majority			86,022	41.8	N/A
Turnout				38.5	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)

European Parliament election, 1984: Devon^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Lord O'Hagan	110,129	54.7	-7.1
	Liberal	Peter Driver	53,519	26.6	+6.6
	Labour	David Gorbutt	30,017	14.9	-3.3
	Ecology	Peter Christie	6,919	3.5	N/A
	Wessex Regionalist	Henrietta E. Rous	659	0.3	N/A
Majority			56,620	28.1	-13.7
Turnout				35.9	-2.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

European Parliament election, 1989: Devon^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Lord O'Hagan	110,518	46.4	-8.3
	Green	Peter Christie	53,220	22.3	+18.8
	Labour	Walter Cairns	40,675	17.1	+2.2
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Mike Edmunds	23,306	9.8	-16.8
	Monster Raving Loony	Stuart Hughes	2,241	0.9	N/A
	Wessex Regionalist	Henrietta E. Rous	385	0.2	-0.1
Majority			57,298	24.1	-4.0
Turnout				39.9	+4.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

England	Bedfordshire Birmingham North Birmingham South Bristol Cambridgeshire Cheshire East Cheshire West Cleveland Cornwall and Plymouth Cotswolds Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Durham Essex North East Essex South West Greater Manchester North Greater Manchester South Greater Manchester West Hampshire West Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire Humberside Kent East Kent West Lancashire Central Lancashire East Lancashire West Leeds Leicester Lincolnshire Liverpool London Central London East London North London North East London North West London South London South East London South Inner London South West London West Midlands Central Midlands East Midlands West Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumbria Nottingham Salop and Stafford Sheffield Somerset Staffordshire East Suffolk Surrey Sussex East Sussex West Thames Valley Tyne South and Wear Upper Thames Wessex Wight and Hampshire East Yorkshire North Yorkshire South Yorkshire South West Yorkshire West

Wales	Mid and West Wales North Wales South East Wales South Wales

Scotland	Glasgow Highlands and Islands Lothians Mid Scotland and Fife North East Scotland South of Scotland Strathclyde East Strathclyde West

Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland

Key

* Constituency created 1981

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