Lothians (European Parliament constituency)

Lothians
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
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 Lothians was one of them.

Members of the European Parliament

European elections 1994: Lothians^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Martin	90,531	44.9	+3.6
	SNP	Keith Brown	53,324	26.5	+6.1
	Conservative	P. McNally	33,526	16.6	–7.0
	Liberal Democrat	H.C. Campbell	17,883	8.9	+4.7
	Scottish Green	Robin Harper	5,149	2.6	–7.9
	Socialist (GB)	J. McGregor	637	0.3	N/A
	Natural Law	M. Siebert	500	0.2	N/A
Majority			37,207	18.4	+0.7
Turnout			201,550	38.7	–3.3
	Labour hold		Swing	–1.3

European elections 1989: Lothians^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Martin	90,840	41.3	+0.9
	Conservative	C.M. Blight	52,014	23.6	–2.9
	SNP	J. Smith	44,935	20.4	+8.4
	Green	Robin Harper	22,983	10.5	+9.1
	Social and Liberal Democrats	K. Leadbetter	9,222	4.2	N/A
Majority			38,826	17.7	+3.8
Turnout			219,994	42.0	+6.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.9

European elections 1984: Lothians^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Martin	74,989	40.4	+7.8
	Conservative	I.J. Henderson	49,065	26.5	–9.1
	Social Democratic	Dickson Mabon	36,636	19.7	N/A
	SNP	D.J.D. Stevenson	22,331	12.0	–4.0
	Ecology	L.M. Hendry	2,560	1.4	N/A
Majority			25,924	13.9	+10.9
Turnout			185,581	35.3	+0.4
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+8.5

European elections 1979: Lothians^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Ian Dalziel	66,761	35.6
	Labour	A.A. Mackie	61,180	32.6
	SNP	D.J.D. Stevenson	29,935	16.0
	Liberal	R.L. Smith	29,518	15.8
Majority			5,581	3.0
Turnout			187,394	34.9
	Conservative win (new seat)

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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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