Highlands and Islands (European Parliament constituency)
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| Highlands and Islands | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
 European Parliament logo | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1979 |
| Dissolved | 1999 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
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.
Created for the 1979 European Parliament elections in 1979, Highlands and Islands was a single-member constituency formed from the grouping of numerous neighbouring Scottish constituencies of the UK Parliament.
Boundaries[]
- 1979–1984: Argyll; Banff; Caithness and Sutherland; Inverness; Moray and Nairn; Orkney and Shetland; Ross and Cromarty; Western Isles
- 1984–1999: Argyll and Bute; Caithness and Sutherland; Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber; Moray; Orkney and Shetland; Ross, Cromarty and Skye; Western Isles
Members of the European Parliament[]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Winnie Ewing | SNP | |
| 1984 | |||
| 1989 | |||
| 1994 | |||
Election results[]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Winnie Ewing | 74,872 | 58.4 | +6.9 | |
| Labour | M.M. Macmillan | 19,956 | 15.6 | +1.7 | |
| Conservative | M.E. Tennant | 15,767 | 12.3 | –4.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | H.R. Morrison | 12,919 | 10.1 | +1.8 | |
| Green | Eleanor Scott | 3,140 | 2.4 | –7.1 | |
| UKIP | M.B.N. Carr | 1,096 | 0.8 | New | |
| Natural Law | M.F. Gilmour | 522 | 0.4 | New | |
| Majority | 54,916 | 42.8 | +8.1 | ||
| Turnout | 128,272 | 39.1 | –1.9 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | +2.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Winnie Ewing | 66,297 | 51.5 | +9.7 | |
| Conservative | A. McQuarrie | 21,602 | 16.8 | +0.8 | |
| Labour | N.L. MacAskill | 17,848 | 13.9 | –0.2 | |
| Green (UK) | M.A.O. Gregson | 12,199 | 9.5 | New | |
| SLD | N. Mitchison | 10,644 | 8.3 | -19.8 | |
| Majority | 44,695 | 34.7 | +21.0 | ||
| Turnout | 128,590 | 41.0 | +2.6 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | +4.5 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Winnie Ewing | 49,410 | 41.8 | +7.8 | |
| Liberal | D.R. Johnston | 33,133 | 28.1 | –2.6 | |
| Conservative | D. Webster | 18,847 | 16.0 | –10.1 | |
| Labour | J.M.M. MacArthur | 16,644 | 14.1 | +4.9 | |
| Majority | 16,277 | 13.7 | +10.4 | ||
| Turnout | 118,034 | 38.4 | –1.0 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | +5.2 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Winnie Ewing | 39,991 | 34.0 | ||
| Liberal | D.R. Johnston | 36,109 | 30.7 | ||
| Conservative | M. Joughin | 30,776 | 26.1 | ||
| Labour | J.G. Watson | 10,846 | 9.2 | ||
| Majority | 3,882 | 3.3 | |||
| Turnout | 117,722 | 39.4 | |||
| SNP win (new seat) | |||||
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