Peak District (European Parliament constituency)

Peak District
Peak District
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1994
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.

The constituency of Peak District was one of them.

It was named after the Peak District in the East Midlands and consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1983 boundaries) of Amber Valley, Ashfield, Broxtowe, Erewash, High Peak, Staffordshire Moorlands, and West Derbyshire.^[1]

Arlene McCarthy of the Labour Party was this seat's only MEP.

MEPs[]

Elected		Member	Party
	1994	Arlene McCarthy	Labour
1999		Constituency abolished: see East Midlands

European Parliament election, 1994: Peak District^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Arlene McCarthy	105,853	53.1
	Conservative	R. H. C. Fletcher	56,546	28.3
	Liberal Democrats	Mrs. S. P. Barber	29,979	15.0
	Green	M. J. Shipley	5,598	2.8
	Natural Law	D. H. Collins	1,533	0.8
Majority			49,307	24.8
Turnout			199,509	39.0
	Labour win (new seat)

^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Archived from the original on 2008-02-09. Retrieved 2008-01-20.
^ Boothroyd, David (21 August 2020). "United Kingdom European Parliamentary Election results 1979-99: England 2". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2022.

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