1984 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1984 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
| country = United Kingdom
| flag_year =
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| party_colour =
| previous_election = 1979 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
| previous_year = 1979
| next_election = 1989 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
| next_year = 1989
| seats_for_election = 81 seats to the European Parliament
| election_date = 14 June 1984
| turnout = 32.6% ({{increase}}0.2%)
| image1 = 170x170px
| leader1 = Henry Plumb
| leader_since1 =
| leaders_seat1 = Cotswolds
| party1 = Conservative Party (UK)
| alliance1 = European People's Party Group
| last_election1 = 60 seats, 48.4%
| seats1 = 45
| seat_change1 = {{decrease}}15
| popular_vote1 = 5,426,866
| percentage1 = 38.8%
| swing1 = {{decrease}}9.6%
| image2 = 170x170px
| leader2 = Barbara Castle
| leader_since2 =
| leaders_seat2 = Greater Manchester West
| party2 = Labour Party (UK)
| alliance2 = Party of European Socialists
| last_election2 = 17 seats, 31.6%
| seats2 = 32
| seat_change2 = {{increase}}15
| popular_vote2 = 4,865,224
| percentage2 = 34.8%
| swing2 = {{increase}}3.1%
| map_image = European Parliament election, 1984 (United Kingdom).svg
| map_size = 300px
| map_caption = Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.
| map2= 300px
| elected_members = List of members of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom (1984–1989)
| outgoing_members = List of members of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom (1979–1984)
}}
{{United Kingdom in the European Union}}
The 1984 European Parliament election was the second European election to be held in the United Kingdom. It was held on 14 June. The electoral system was First Past the Post in England, Scotland and Wales and Single transferable vote in Northern Ireland. The turnout was again the lowest in Europe. In England, Scotland and Wales, the Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party were in alliance, collecting 2,591,635 votes but not a single seat.
The election represented a small recovery for Labour, under Michael Foot's replacement Neil Kinnock, taking 15 seats from the Conservatives. In the general election of 1983, they had only had a vote share of 2% more than the SDP–Liberal Alliance (although they had nearly 10 times more MP's elected) and 15% less than the Conservatives. This was the last European election in the UK in which the governing party won a majority of seats.
A by-election to the British Parliament also took place on the same day in the Portsmouth South constituency – the Alliance gained the seat from the Conservatives.
Results
=United Kingdom=
Source: [http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/RP99-57 UK Parliament briefing]
| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" |
| colspan=2 | Party
! Votes won ! % of vote ! Loss/Gain ! Seats ! % of seats ! Loss/Gain |
|---|
| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
| align="right" | 5,426,866 | align="right" | 38.8 | align="right" | {{decrease}}9.6 | align="right" | 45 | align="right" | 55.6 | align="right" | {{decrease}}15 |
| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}
| align="right" | 4,865,224 | align="right" | 34.8 | align="right" | {{increase}}3.1 | align="right" | 32 | align="right" | 39.5 | align="right" | {{increase}}15 |
| {{Party name with colour|SDP–Liberal Alliance}}
| align="right" | 2,591,659 | align="right" | 18.5 | align="right" | {{increase}}5.9 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Scottish National Party}}
| align="right" | 230,594 | align="right" | 1.6 | align="right" | {{decrease}}0.2 | align="right" | 1 | align="right" | 1.2 | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Democratic Unionist Party}}
| align="right" | 230,251 | align="right" | 1.6 | align="right" | {{increase}}0.4 | align="right" | 1 | align="right" | 1.2 | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Social Democratic and Labour Party}}
| align="right" | 151,399 | align="right" | 1.1 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | 1 | align="right" | 1.2 | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Ulster Unionist Party}}
| align="right" | 147,169 | align="right" | 1.1 | align="right" | {{increase}}0.1 | align="right" | 1 | align="right" | 1.2 | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Plaid Cymru}}
| align="right" | 103,031 | align="right" | 0.8 | align="right" | {{increase}}0.1 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Sinn Féin}}
| align="right" | 91,476 | align="right" | 0.7 | align="right" | New | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Ecology Party}}
| align="right" | 73,025 | align="right" | 0.5 | align="right" | {{increase}}0.4 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}}
| align="right" | 34,046 | align="right" | 0.2 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Ulster Popular Unionist Party}}
| align="right" | 20,092 | align="right" | 0.1 | align="right" | New | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
| align="right" | 11,073 | align="right" | 0.1 | align="right" | {{decrease}}0.1 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Workers' Party (Ireland)}}
| align="right" | 8,712 | align="right" | 0.1 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| | Independent Ecology
| align="right" | 3,330 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | New | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| | Ind. Conservative
| align="right" | 3,249 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| | Ind. Liberal
| align="right" | 2,981 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | New | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Wessex Regionalist Party}}
| align="right" | 2,365 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | New | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| | Cornish Nationalist
| align="right" | 1,892 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | New | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| | Federal Republican Party
| align="right" | 1,494 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | New | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
- Overall (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) turnout: 32.6% (EC average: 61%)
- Overall votes cast: 13,998,190
=Great Britain=
Source: [http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/RP99-57 UK Parliament briefing]
| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" |
| colspan=2 | Party
! Votes won ! % of vote ! Loss/Gain ! Seats ! % of seats ! Loss/Gain |
|---|
| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
| align="right" | 5,426,866 | align="right" | 40.8 | align="right" | {{decrease}}9.8 | align="right" | 45 | align="right" | 57.7 | align="right" | {{decrease}}15 |
| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}
| align="right" | 4,865,224 | align="right" | 36.5 | align="right" | {{increase}}3.5 | align="right" | 32 | align="right" | 41.0 | align="right" | {{increase}}15 |
| {{Party name with colour|SDP–Liberal Alliance}}
| align="right" | 2,591,659 | align="right" | 19.5 | align="right" | {{increase}}6.3 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Scottish National Party}}
| align="right" | 230,594 | align="right" | 1.7 | align="right" | {{decrease}}0.2 | align="right" | 1 | align="right" | 1.3 | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Plaid Cymru}}
| align="right" | 103,031 | align="right" | 0.8 | align="right" | {{increase}}0.1 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Ecology Party}}
| align="right" | 70,853 | align="right" | 0.5 | align="right" | {{increase}}0.4 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
| align="right" | 11,073 | align="right" | 0.1 | align="right" | {{decrease}}0.1 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| | Independent Ecology
| align="right" | 3,330 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | New | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| | Ind. Conservative
| align="right" | 3,249 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| | Ind. Liberal
| align="right" | 2,981 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | New | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| {{Party name with colour|Wessex Regionalist Party}}
| align="right" | 2,365 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | New | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| | Cornish Nationalist
| align="right" | 1,892 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | New | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
| | Federal Republican Party
| align="right" | 1,494 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | New | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | {{steady}} | align="right" | {{steady}} |
Total votes cast – 13,312,898. All parties listed.
=Northern Ireland=
Source: [http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/fe84.htm Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive]
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{{STV Election box candidate2
|candidate = Ian Paisley
|party = Democratic Unionist Party
|percentage = 33.6
|count1 = 230,251
|count2 =
|count3 =
|count4 =
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{{STV Election box candidate2
|candidate = John Taylor
|party = Ulster Unionist Party
|percentage = 21.5
|count1 = 147,169
|count2 = 185,714
|count3 =
|count4 =
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{{STV Election box candidate2
|candidate = John Hume
|party = Social Democratic and Labour Party
|percentage = 22.1
|count1 = 151,399
|count2 = 151,664
|count3 = 156,310
|count4 = 183,256
}}
{{STV Election box candidate2
|candidate = Danny Morrison
|party = Sinn Féin
|percentage = 13.3
|count1 = 91,476
|count2 = 91,525
|count3 = 92,644
|count4 = 93,079
}}
{{STV Election box candidate2
|candidate = David Cook
|party = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|percentage = 5.0
|count1 = 34,046
|count2 = 34,892
|count3 = 37,401
|count4 =
}}
{{STV Election box candidate2
|candidate = James Kilfedder
|party = Ulster Popular Unionist Party
|percentage = 2.9
|count1 = 20,092
|count2 = 38,293
|count3 = 38,854
|count4 =
}}
{{STV Election box candidate2
|candidate = Seamus Lynch
|party = Workers' Party (Ireland)
|percentage = 1.3
|count1 = 8,712
|count2 = 8,813
|count3 =
|count4 =
}}
{{STV Election box candidate2
|candidate = Colin McGuigan
|party = Ecology Party
|percentage = 0.3
|count1 = 2,172
|count2 = 2,236
|count3 =
|count4 =
}}
{{STV Election box end2
|numcounts = 4
|electorate = 1,065,363
|valid = 685,317
|spoilt = 11,654
|quota = 171,330
|turnout = 696,994
}}
= Constituency results =
{{Incomplete list|date=February 2011}}
Source: [http://aei.pitt.edu/5178/1/5178.pdf]
| class="wikitable sortable"
!rowspan=2|Constituency !colspan=7 rowspan=1|Constituency result by party !colspan=2 rowspan=2|Winning party 1984 |
| Conservative
!Labour !Alliance !PC !SNP !Ecology !Others |
|---|
| Bedfordshire South
|72,088 |57,106 |36,444 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Birmingham East
|54,994 |76,377 |21,927 | | | |1,440 | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Birmingham West
|55,702 |61,946 |19,422 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Bristol
|94,652 |77,008 |33,698 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Cambridge and Bedfordshire North
|86,117 |38,901 |36,341 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Cheshire East
|71,182 |52,806 |31,374 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Cheshire West
|74,579 |64,887 |30,470 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Cleveland and Yorkshire North
|73,217 |52,887 |31,374 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Cornwall and Plymouth
|81,627 |35,952 |63,876 | | | |10,518 | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Cotswolds
|94,740 |36,738 |45,798 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Cumbria and Lancashire North
|86,127 |62,332 |39,622 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Derbyshire
|72,613 |79,466 |30,824 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Devon
|110,129 |30,017 |53,519 | | | |7,278 | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Dorset East and Hampshire West
|109,072 |31,223 |49,181 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Durham
|44,846 |106,073 |32,307 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Essex North East
|97,138 |42,836 |34,769 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Essex South West
|72,190 |56,169 |29,385 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Glasgow
|25,282 |91,015 |20,867 | |16,456 | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Greater Manchester Central
|48,753 |76,830 |24,192 | | | |1,430 | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Greater Manchester East
|56,415 |65,101 |27,801 | | |3,158 | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Greater Manchester West
|56,042 |93,740 |17,894 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Hampshire Central
|84,086 |39,228 |39,265 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Hereford and Worcester
|84,077 |44,143 |37,854 | | |8,179 | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Hertfordshire
|87,603 |41,671 |40,877 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Highlands and Islands
|18,847 |16,644 |33,133 | |49,410 | | | {{party name with colour|Scottish National Party}} |
| Humberside
|61,952 |53,937 |27,318 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Kent East
|92,340 |43,473 |34,601 | | |5,405 | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Kent West
|85,414 |50,784 |33,306 | | |4,991 | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Lancashire Central
|82,370 |56,175 |24,936 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Lancashire East
|67,806 |75,711 |26,320 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Leeds
|60,178 |70,535 |36,097 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Leicester
|72,508 |69,616 |29,656 | | | |3,249 | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Lincolnshire
|92,606 |47,161 |37,244 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| London Central
|64,545 |77,842 |30,269 | | | |7,514 | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| London East
|61,711 |73,870 |26,379 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| London North
|74,846 |69,993 |31,344 | | | |4,682 | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| London North East
|27,242 |79,907 |17,344 | | | |4,797 | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| London North West
|69,803 |62,381 |29,609 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| London South and Surrey East
|82,122 |37,465 |34,522 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| London South East
|81,508 |61,493 |38,614 | | | |989 | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| London South Inner
|46,180 |77,661 |25,391 | | | |3,281 | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| London South West
|41,096 |32,632 |23,842 | | | |2,135 | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| London West
|74,325 |79,554 |36,687 | | | |4,361 | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Lothians
|49,065 |74,989 |36,636 | |22,331 | |2,560 | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Merseyside East
|38,047 |87,086 |17,259 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Merseyside West
|52,718 |65,915 |37,303 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Mid and West Wales
|52,910 |89,362 |35,168 |32,880 | | |4,266 | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Mid Scotland and Fife
|52,872 |80,038 |24,220 | |30,511 | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Midlands East
|67,884 |55,155 |27,912 | | | |1,494 | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Midlands West
|54,406 |74,091 |17,709 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Norfolk
|95,459 |58,602 |37,703 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| North East Scotland
|53,809 |44,648 |25,490 | |33,448 | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| North Wales
|69,139 |54,768 |56,861 |38,117 | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Northamptonshire
|88,668 |48,809 |37,421 | | | |3,330 | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Northumbria
|62,717 |78,412 |42,946 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Nottingham
|82,500 |66,374 |33,169 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire
|94,136 |39,164 |45,055 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Sheffield
|47,247 |93,530 |23,935 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Shropshire and Stafford
|82,291 |57,359 |37,209 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Somerset and Dorset West
|98,928 |36,863 |58,677 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| South of Scotland
|60,843 |57,706 |23,598 | |22,242 | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| South Wales
|55,678 |99,936 |26,588 |13,201 | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| South Wales East
|36,359 |131,916 |28,330 |18,833 | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Staffordshire East
|68,886 |76,753 |26,093 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Strathclyde East
|24,857 |90,792 |11,883 | |27,330 | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Strathclyde West
|47,196 |70,234 |25,955 | |28,866 | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Suffolk
|88,243 |41,145 |34,084 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Surrey West
|96,675 |22,531 |44,087 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Sussex East
|102,287 |32,213 |36,666 | | |5,401 | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Sussex West
|104,257 |22,857 |46,755 | | |3,842 | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Thames Valley
|74,928 |36,123 |32,704 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Tyne and Wear
|39,610 |89,024 |19,081 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Wight and Hampshire East
|96,666 |36,445 |53,738 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Wiltshire
|86,873 |35,457 |60,404 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| York
|80,636 |44,234 |33,356 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} |
| Yorkshire South
|30,271 |98,020 |19,306 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Yorkshire South West
|44,291 |88,464 |26,964 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
| Yorkshire West
|65,405 |86,259 |28,709 | | | | | {{party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} |
See also
References
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