Birmingham East (European Parliament constituency)

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.

Birmingham East
European Parliament constituency
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Member stateUnited Kingdom
Created1984
Dissolved1999
MEPs1
Sources
United Kingdom Election Results

The constituency of Birmingham East was one of them.

It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham Erdington, Birmingham Hall Green, Birmingham Hodge Hill, Birmingham Northfield, Birmingham Selly Oak, Birmingham Small Heath, Birmingham Sparkbrook, and Birmingham Yardley.[1]

MEPs
ElectionMemberParty
1984 Christine Crawley Labour
1999 Constituency abolished: see West Midlands

Elections
European elections 1984: Birmingham East[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Christine Crawley 76,377 49.4
Conservative Norvela F Forster 54,994 35.5
SDP David A Bennett 21,927 14.2
Independent DC Howlett 1,440 0.9
Majority 21,383 13.9
Turnout 154,738 28.2
Labour win (new seat)
European elections 1989: Birmingham East[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Christine Crawley 96,588 53.7 +4.3
Conservative Malcolm Harbour 49,640 27.6 -7.9
Green Phil M. Simpson 22,589 12.6 New
SDP JC Binns 5,424 3.0 -11.2[lower-alpha 1]
Liberal Democrats Jerry Roodhouse 4,010 2.2 -12.0
National Front Martin Wingfield 1,471 0.8 New
Majority 46,948 26.1 +12.2
Turnout 179,722 33.8 +4.6
Labour hold Swing
  1. Compared with Social Democratic Party
European elections 1994: Birmingham East[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Christine Crawley 90,291 58.2 +4.5
Conservative Andrew Turner 35,171 22.7 -4.9
Liberal Democrats Charlotte KB Cane 19,455 12.6 +10.4
Green Phil M Simpson 6,268 4.0 -8.6
Socialist (GB) Ron Cook 1,969 1.3 New
Natural Law Marcus JB Brierley 1,885 1.2 New
Majority 55,120 35.5 +9.4
Turnout 155,039 29.8 -4.0
Labour hold Swing

References
  1. "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2008.
  2. "Elections to the European Parliament 1979-99, part 1". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2009.


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