1989 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

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1989 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
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81 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout 36.4% (Increase3.8%)
  First party Second party
 
Lab
Con
Leader Barry Seal Christopher Prout
Party Labour Conservative
Alliance PES European People's Party Group
Leader's seat Yorkshire West Shropshire and Stafford
Last election 32 seats, 34.8% 45 seats, 38.8%
Seats won 45 32
Seat change Increase13 Decrease13
Popular vote 6,153,640 5,331,077
Percentage 38.7% 33.7%
Swing Increase3.9% Decrease5.1%
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Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The 1989 European Parliament election, 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 Green Party's vote total of 2,299,287 remains its best performance in a national election, as does its percentage result of 14.5%.

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.

Two by-elections to the British Parliament also took place on the same day in the Vauxhall and Glasgow Central constituencies - Labour held both seats.

Results

United Kingdom

Party Votes won[1]  % of vote Loss/Gain Seats  % of seats Loss/Gain
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour 6,153,661 38.7 Increase3.9 45 55.6 Increase13
style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative 5,356,887 33.7 Decrease5.1 32 39.5 Decrease13
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6AB023;" data-sort-value="Green Party (UK)" | Green 2,299,287 14.5 Increase14.0 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Social and Liberal Democrats" | Social and Liberal Democrats 944,861 5.9 Decrease12.6 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | SNP 406,686 2.6 Increase1.0 1 1.2 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" | DUP 160,110 1.0 Decrease0.6 1 1.2 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" | SDLP 136,335 0.9 Decrease0.2 1 1.2 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #9999FF;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" | UUP 118,785 0.7 Decrease0.4 1 1.2 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008142;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | Plaid Cymru 115,062 0.7 Decrease0.1 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #7D26CD;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic Party (UK, 1988)" | Social Democrat 75,886 0.5 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | Sinn Féin 48,914 0.3 Decrease0.4 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" | Alliance 27,905 0.2 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent 12,724 0.1 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDEEFF;" data-sort-value="Independent Conservative" | Independent Conservative 6,996 0.0 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #D73D3D;" data-sort-value="Workers' Party (Ireland)" | [[Workers' Party (Ireland)|Template:Workers' Party (Ireland)/meta/shortname]] 5,590 0.0 Decrease0.1 0 Steady Steady
Labour Representation Group 3,540 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: red;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of Britain" | Communist 4,420 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: hotpink;" data-sort-value="Official Monster Raving Loony Party" | Monster Raving Loony 4,263 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #CCCC00;" data-sort-value="Mebyon Kernow" | Mebyon Kernow 4,224 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #00FA9A;" data-sort-value="Wessex Regionalist Party" | Wessex Regionalist 2,332 0.0 Steady 0 Steady Steady
International Communist 1,567 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: MidnightBlue;" data-sort-value="National Front (UK)" | National Front 1,471 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: orange;" data-sort-value="Humanist Party (UK)" | Humanist 1,349 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party of Northern Ireland" | Labour Party NI 1,274 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Socialist Party of Great Britain" | Socialist (GB) 919 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
Corrective 707 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #C71585;" data-sort-value="Communist League (UK, 1988)" | Communist League 323 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
  • Overall (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) turnout: 36% (EU average: 59%)
  • Overall votes cast: 15,896,078

Great Britain

Party Votes won[1]  % of vote Loss/Gain Seats  % of seats Loss/Gain
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour 6,153,661 40.1 Increase3.6 45 57.7 Increase13
style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative 5,331,098 34.7 Decrease6.1 32 41.0 Decrease13
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6AB023;" data-sort-value="Green Party (UK)" | Green 2,292,718 14.9 Increase14.4 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Social and Liberal Democrats" | Social and Liberal Democrats 944,861 6.2 Decrease13.3 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | SNP 406,686 2.6 Increase0.9 1 1.3 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008142;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | Plaid Cymru 115,062 0.7 Decrease0.1 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #7D26CD;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic Party (UK, 1988)" | Social Democrat 75,886 0.5 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent 12,724 0.1 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDEEFF;" data-sort-value="Independent Conservative" | Independent Conservative 6,996 0.0 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: red;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of Britain" | Communist 4,420 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: hotpink;" data-sort-value="Official Monster Raving Loony Party" | Monster Raving Loony 4,263 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #CCCC00;" data-sort-value="Mebyon Kernow" | Mebyon Kernow 4,224 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #00FA9A;" data-sort-value="Wessex Regionalist Party" | Wessex Regionalist 2,332 0.0 Steady 0 Steady Steady
International Communist 1,567 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: MidnightBlue;" data-sort-value="National Front (UK)" | National Front 1,471 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: orange;" data-sort-value="Humanist Party (UK)" | Humanist 1,349 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Socialist Party of Great Britain" | Socialist (GB) 919 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
Corrective 707 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #C71585;" data-sort-value="Communist League (UK, 1988)" | Communist League 323 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady

Total votes cast: 15,361,267

Northern Ireland

Party Candidate(s) Seats Loss/Gain First Preference Votes[2]
Number  % of vote
style="width: 5px; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" | DUP Ian Paisley 1 0 160,110 29.9
style="width: 5px; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" | SDLP John Hume 1 0 136,335 25.5
style="width: 5px; background-color: #9999FF;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" | UUP Jim Nicholson 1 0 118,785 22.2
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | Sinn Féin Danny Morrison 0 0 48,914 9.1
style="width: 5px; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" | Alliance John Alderdice 0 0 27,905 5.2
style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Northern Ireland Conservatives" | NI Conservatives Myrtle Boal 0 0 25,789 4.8
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6AB023;" data-sort-value="Green Party (UK)" | Green Malcolm Samuel 0 0 6,569 1.0
style="width: 5px; background-color: #D73D3D;" data-sort-value="Workers' Party (Ireland)" | [[Workers' Party (Ireland)|Template:Workers' Party (Ireland)/meta/shortname]] 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

See also

References

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  2. ↑ http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papersRP99-57.pdf[dead link]
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