Lincolnshire (European Parliament constituency)

Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1994
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 Lincolnshire was one of them.

When it was created in England in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Gainsborough, Grantham, Grimsby, Holland with Boston, Horncastle, Lincoln, Louth, Rutland and Stamford,^[1] although this may not have been true for the whole of its existence.

MEPs

Elected		Member	Party
	1979	Bill Newton Dunn	Conservative
1994		Constituency abolished

European Parliament election, 1979: Lincolnshire^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Bill Newton Dunn	104,460	61.5
	Labour	Carl A. James	44,616	26.3
	Liberal	C. W. Phillips	20,815	12.2
Majority			59,844	35.2
Turnout			169,891	31.3
	Conservative win (new seat)

European Parliament election, 1984: Lincolnshire^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bill Newton Dunn	92,606	52.3	−9.2
	Labour	Chris W. Sewell	47,161	26.7	+0.4
	Liberal	Gavin B. Purves	37,244	21.0	+8.8
Majority			45,445	25.6
Turnout			177,011	32.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

European Parliament election, 1989: Lincolnshire^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bill Newton Dunn	92,043	45.4	−6.9
	Labour	Steven Taggart	71,393	35.2	+8.5
	Green	Miss J. S. Steranka	24,908	12.3	New
	SLD	James P. Heppell	14,341	7.1	−13.9
Majority			20,650	10.2	−15.4
Turnout			202,685	34.6	+2.5
	Conservative hold		Swing