European Parliament election, 1989 (United Kingdom)

United Kingdom European Parliament election, 1989

15 June 1989

81 seats to the European Parliament

	First party	Second party

Leader	Neil Kinnock	Margaret Thatcher
Party	Labour	Conservative
Alliance	PES	EPP
Leader since	2 October 1983	11 February 1975
Last election	32 seats, 36.5%	45 seats, 40.8%
Seats won	45	32
Seat change	13	13
Popular vote	6,153,640	5,331,077
Percentage	40.1%	34.7%
Swing	3.6%	6.1%

Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.

Leader of Largest Party before election

Margaret Thatcher
Conservative

Subsequent Leader of Largest Party

Neil Kinnock
Labour

The European Parliament Election, 1989 was the third European election to be held in the United Kingdom. It was held on 15 June. The electoral system was First Past the Post in England, Scotland and Wales and Single Transferable Vote in Northern Ireland. The turnout was again the lowest in Europe.

This election saw the best performance ever by the Green Party (UK) (formerly the Ecology Party), collecting over 2 million votes and 15% of the vote share. It had only received 70,853 as the Ecology Party in the previous election. However, because of First Past the Post system, the Green Party did not gain a single MEP, while the Scottish National Party received 1 seat with only 3% of the vote share. The SNP received almost double the amount of votes it received in the previous election, its vote share rose by 1%.

The election also saw Labour overtake the Conservatives for the first time in any election since October 1974 and the first time ever in a European election, winning 13 more seats.

Overall (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) turnout: 36% (EU average: 59%)
Overall votes cast: 15,896,078

England, Scotland and Wales

	Votes^[1]	Seats	Loss/Gain	Share of Vote (%)
Labour	6,153,640	45	+13	40.1
Conservative	5,331,077	32	-13	34.7
Green	2,292,705	0	0	14.9
Social and Liberal Democrats	986,292	0	0	6.2
SNP	406,686	1	0	2.6
Plaid Cymru	115,062	0	0	0.7
Social Democratic	75,886	0	0	0.5
Independent	12,724	0	0	0.1
Independent Conservative	6,996	0	0	0.0
Communist	4,420	0	0	0.0
Monster Raving Loony	4,263	0	0	0.0
Mebyon Kernow	4,224	0	0	0.0
Wessex Regionalist	2,332	0	0	0.0
International Communist	1,567	0	0	0.0
National Front	1,471	0	0	0.0
Humanist	1,349	0	0	0.0
Socialist (GB)	919	0	0	0.0
Corrective	707	0	0	0.0
Communist League	323	0	0	0.0

Total votes cast: 15,361,267

Northern Ireland

Party		Candidate(s)	Seats	Loss/Gain	First Preference Votes^[2]
Party		Candidate(s)	Seats	Loss/Gain	Number	% of vote
	DUP	Ian Paisley	1	0	160,110	29.9
	SDLP	John Hume	1	0	136,335	25.5
	UUP	Jim Nicholson	1	0	118,785	22.2
	Sinn Féin	Danny Morrison	0	0	48,914	9.1
	Alliance	John Alderdice	0	0	27,905	5.2
	NI Conservatives	Myrtle Boal	0	0	25,789	4.8
	Green	Malcolm Samuel	0	0	6,569	1.0
	Workers' Party	Seamus Lynch	0	0	5,590	1
	Labour Representation	Mark Langhammer	0	0	3,540	0
	Labour '87	Brian Caul	0	0	1,274	0

Total votes cast - 534,811.

Party Leaders in 1989

Labour - Neil Kinnock
Conservative - Margaret Thatcher
Green - N/A (the Green Party did not have a leader)
Liberal Democrat - Paddy Ashdown
SNP - Gordon Wilson
Plaid Cymru - Dafydd Elis Thomas
DUP - Ian Paisley
SDLP - John Hume
UUP - James Molyneaux

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European Parliament election, 1989 (United Kingdom)

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Party Leaders in 1989

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