Mid Scotland and Fife (European Parliament constituency)

Mid Scotland and Fife
European Parliament constituency
Mid Scotland and Fife (European Parliament constituency) is located in the United Kingdom
Mid Scotland and Fife (European Parliament constituency)
Mid Scotland and Fife (European Parliament constituency) is located in Europe
Mid Scotland and Fife (European Parliament constituency)
Mid Scotland and Fife's location within Scotland (1979-1984)
Member stateUnited Kingdom
Electorate546,060
Created1979
Dissolved1999
MEPs1
Sources
[1] [2]

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.

Boundary within Scotland (1984-1994)

Boundaries

1979-1984: 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

Elected Member Party
1979 John Purvis Conservative
1984 Alex Falconer Labour
1989
1994

Election results

European elections 1994: Mid Scotland and Fife[5]
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
European elections 1989: Mid Scotland and Fife[5]
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
European elections 1984: Mid Scotland and Fife[5]
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
European elections 1979: Mid Scotland and Fife[5]
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

  1. ^ https://www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk/?q=reviews/european-parliament [bare URL]
  2. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20200201143001/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/epscot.html [bare URL]
  3. ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2008.
  4. ^ "European Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries". Archived from the original on 5 January 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  5. ^ 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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