Salop and Stafford | |
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European Parliament constituency | |
Member state | United Kingdom |
Created | 1979 |
Dissolved | 1984 |
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 Salop and Stafford was one of them.
It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1974 boundaries) of Ludlow, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Stafford and Stone, Staffordshire South West, and The Wrekin.[1]
Elected | Members[2] | Party | |
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1979 | Christopher Prout | Conservative | |
1984 | Constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Christopher Prout | 90,545 | 57.5 | ||
Labour | J.S. Hopkins | 45,547 | 28.9 | ||
Liberal | T.G. Robson | 16,469 | 10.5 | ||
Ind. Conservative | Mrs. P.J.E. Larney | 4,804 | 3.1 | ||
Majority | 44,998 | 28.6 | |||
Turnout | 157,365 | 32.2 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |