Mid Scotland and Fife was a European Parliament constituency in the United Kingdom prior to the uniform adoption of proportional representation in the UK in 1999. The United Kingdom had previously 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.
| Mid Scotland and Fife | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
   | |
 Mid Scotland and Fife's location within Scotland (1979-1984) | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Electorate | 546,060 |
| Created | 1979 |
| Dissolved | 1999 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] [2] | |
Boundaries
edit1979-1984: Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire, Dunfermline, Fife Central, Fife East, Kinross and West Perthshire, Kirkcaldy, Perth and East Perthshire, Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth, Stirlingshire West.[3]
1984-1999: Central Fife, Clackmannan, Dunfermline East, Dunfermline West, Falkirk East, Falkirk West, Kirkcaldy, North East Fife, Perth and Kinross, Stirling.[4]
The 1979-1984 boundaries exactly mirror the boundaries of the present-day Scottish Parliament electoral region of the same name.
Members of the European Parliament
edit| Elected | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | John Purvis | Conservative | |
| 1984 | Alex Falconer | Labour | |
| 1989 | |||
| 1994 | |||
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Alex Falconer | 95,667 | 45.8 | –0.3 | |
| SNP | Dick Douglas | 64,254 | 30.8 | +8.2 | |
| Conservative | Peter W.B. Page | 28,192 | 13.5 | –7.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Heather S. Lyall | 17,192 | 8.2 | +4.2 | |
| Scottish Green | Mark J. Johnston | 3,015 | 1.4 | −5.0 | |
| Natural Law | Tom J. Pringle | 532 | 0.3 | New | |
| Majority | 31,413 | 15.0 | –8.5 | ||
| Turnout | 208,852 | 38.2 | –3.3 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | –4.3 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Alex Falconer | 102,246 | 46.1 | +3.5 | |
| SNP | Kenny MacAskill | 50,089 | 22.6 | +6.3 | |
| Conservative | Alan F. Christie | 46,505 | 20.9 | –7.3 | |
| Green | George C. Morton | 14,165 | 6.4 | New | |
| SLD | Malcolm Black | 8,857 | 4.0 | −8.9 | |
| Majority | 52,157 | 23.5 | +9.1 | ||
| Turnout | 221,862 | 41.5 | +6.0 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | –1.4 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Alex Falconer | 80,038 | 42.6 | +11.4 | |
| Conservative | John Purvis | 52,872 | 28.2 | –6.9 | |
| SNP | Janette Jones | 30,511 | 16.3 | –7.8 | |
| SDP | Alexander A.I. Wedderburn | 24,220 | 12.9 | +3.3 | |
| Majority | 27,166 | 14.4 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 187,641 | 35.5 | +0.5 | ||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +9.2 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Purvis | 66,255 | 35.1 | ||
| Labour | Mary Panko | 58,768 | 31.2 | ||
| SNP | Robert McIntyre | 45,426 | 24.1 | ||
| Liberal | J.M. Calder | 18,112 | 9.6 | ||
| Majority | 7,487 | 3.9 | |||
| Turnout | 188,561 | 35.0 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
References
edit- ^ https://www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk/?q=reviews/european-parliament [bare URL]
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20200201143001/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/epscot.html [bare URL]
- ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2008.
- ^ "European Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries". Archived from the original on 5 January 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Elections to the European Parliament 1979-99: Scotland". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
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