Thames Valley (European Parliament constituency)

Thames Valley
Thames Valley
European Parliament constituency
	Boundary within South East England (1979-1984)
Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1999
MEPs	1
Sources

Created1979

Dissolved1999

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 Thames Valley was one of them.

Elected		Member	Party
	1979	Diana Elles	Conservative
	1989	John Stevens	Conservative
	1999	John Stevens	Pro-Euro Conservative
1999		Constituency abolished: see South East England

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Diana Elles	110,788	63.1
	Labour	J. A. F. Ennals	39,865	22.7
	Liberal	M. P. Fogarty	24,877	14.2
Majority			70,923	40.4
Turnout			175,530	33.2
	Conservative win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Diana Elles	74,928	52.1	−11.0
	Labour	Robert B. Bastin	36,123	25.1	+2.4
	Liberal	Robert W. Bradnock	32,704	22.8	+8.6
Majority			38,805	27.0
Turnout			143,755	27.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Stevens	73,070	42.7	−9.4
	Labour	Miss Hilary B. De Lyon	46,579	27.2	+2.1
	Green	Peter Gordon	36,865	21.6	New
	SLD	David B. Griffiths	14,603	8.5	−14.3
Majority			26,491	15.5	−11.5
Turnout			171,117	31.6	+3.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Stevens	70,485	37.3	−5.4
	Labour	John Howarth	69,727	36.9	+9.7
	Liberal Democrats	Nelson C. Bathurst	33,187	17.5	+9.0
	Green	Phil J. Unsworth	6,120	3.2	−18.4'"`UNIQ−−ref−0000001B−QINU`"'
	Liberal	John S. Clark	5,381	2.8	New
	Monster Raving Loony	Peter T. Owen	2,859	1.5	New
	Natural Law	Mike R. S. Grenville	1,453	0.8	New
Majority			758	0.4	−15.1
Turnout			189,212	34.8	+3.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

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