Herefordshire and Shropshire (European Parliament constituency)

Herefordshire and Shropshire
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1994
Dissolved	1999
MEPs	1
Sources

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 Herefordshire and Shropshire was one of them.

It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Hereford, Leominster, Ludlow, North Shropshire, Shrewsbury and Atcham, The Wrekin, and Wyre Forest.^[1]

David Hallam of Labour was the sole representative for the constituency during its entire existence. His election in 1994 was somewhat of a surprise as the area was widely assumed to be safely Conservative.

MEPs

Election		Member	Party
	1994	David Hallam	Labour

Election results

European Parliament election, 1994: Herefordshire and Shropshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Hallam	76,120	36.7	N/A
	Conservative	Sir Christopher Prout	74,270	35.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	J.Y. Gallagher	44,130	21.2	N/A
	Green	Miss F.M. Norman	11,578	5.6	N/A
	Natural Law	T.W. Mercer	1,480	0.7	N/A
Majority			1,850	0.9
	Labour win (new seat)

References

↑ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 2008-01-20.

External links

David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results

1989–94 ← European Parliament constituencies 1994–99 → 1999–2004

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