Cotswolds (European Parliament constituency)

Cotswolds
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1999
MEPs	1
Sources
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Before uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in Great Britain. 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 Cotswolds (sometimes called "The Cotswolds") was one of them.

When it was created in England in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Banbury, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Mid Oxfordshire, Oxford and Stroud. From 1984 it consisted of Banbury, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Stratford-on-Avon, Stroud and Witney. From 1994 it consisted of Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Stroud, West Gloucestershire and Witney.

Members of the European Parliament

Elected	Name	Party
1979	Sir Henry (later Lord) Plumb		Conservative

Election results

European Parliament election 1979

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Henry Plumb	109,139	58.6
	Labour	J.A. Honeybone	37,713	20.3
	Liberal	Miss M.E. Burton	27,916	15.0
	United Against the Common Market	D.C.T. Bennett	11,422	6.1
Majority			71,426	38.3
	Conservative win

European Parliament election 1984

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Henry Plumb	94,740	53.5
	Liberal	Miss M.E. Burton	45,798	25.8
	Labour	Mrs. J.A. Royall	36,738	20.7
Majority			48,942	27.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

European Parliament election, 1989

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lord Plumb	94,852	45.1
	Green	Mrs. M.S. Limb	49,174	23.4
	Labour	T. Levitt	48,180	22.9
	Social and Liberal Democrats	L.A. Rowe	18,196	8.6
Majority			45,678	21.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

European Parliament election,1994

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lord Plumb	67,484	34.5
	Labour	Mrs. Tess J. Kingham	63,216	32.3
	Liberal Democrat	J.C. Thomson	44,269	22.7
	New Britain	M.D. Rendell	11,044	5.7
	Green	D. McCanlis	8,254	4.2
	Natural Law	H.W. Brighouse	1,151	0.6
Majority			4,268	2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

External links

• David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results