Birmingham West (European Parliament constituency)
Former European Parliament constituency
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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 West | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
Boundary within the West Midlands (1984-1994) | |
| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1984 |
| Dissolved | 1999 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
The constituency of Birmingham West was one of them.
It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1983 boundaries) of Aldridge-Brownhills, Birmingham Ladywood, Birmingham Perry Barr, Sutton Coldfield, Walsall North, Walsall South, West Bromwich East, and West Bromwich West.[2]
MEPs
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | John Tomlinson | Labour | |
| 1999 | Constituency abolished: see West Midlands | ||
Elections
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Tomlinson | 61,946 | 45.2 | ||
| Conservative | Colin R.C. Hart | 55,702 | 40.6 | ||
| SDP | Joseph C Binns | 19,422 | 14.2 | ||
| Majority | 5,237 | 4.6 | |||
| Turnout | 137,070 | 27.3 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Tomlinson | 86,545 | 50.5 | +5.3 | |
| Conservative | Charles Francis Robinson | 55,685 | 32.5 | −7.9 | |
| Green | John D Bentley | 21,384 | 12.5 | New | |
| SLD | Stewart Reynolds | 7,673 | 4.5 | −9.7 | |
| Majority | 30,860 | 18.0 | +13.4 | ||
| Turnout | 171,287 | 33.2 | +5.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | John Tomlinson | 77,957 | 53.7 | +3.2 | |
| Conservative | David M. Harman | 38,607 | 26.6 | −5.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Nicholas DM McGeorge | 14,603 | 10.0 | +5.5 | |
| UKIP | Dr Bernard A Juby | 5,237 | 3.6 | New | |
| Green | Murray G Abbott | 4,367 | 3.0 | −9.5 | |
| National Front | Andrew Carmichael | 3,727 | 2.6 | New | |
| Natural Law | Huw S Meads | 789 | 0.5 | New | |
| Majority | 39,350 | 27.1 | +9.1 | ||
| Turnout | 145,287 | 28.5 | −4.7 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
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