| Cornwall and Plymouth | |
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| European Parliament constituency | |
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| Member state | United Kingdom |
| Created | 1979 |
| Dissolved | 1994 |
| MEPs | 1 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
Cornwall and Plymouth was a European Parliament constituency covering the county of Cornwall and the city of Plymouth in Devon, England.
Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representationin1999, 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.
When it was created in England in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituenciesofBodmin, Falmouth and Camborne, North Cornwall, Plymouth Devonport, Plymouth Drake, Plymouth Sutton, St Ives and Truro. In 1984, Bodmin was replaced by South East Cornwall.[1]
The constituency was replaced by Cornwall and West Plymouth and a small part of Devon and East Plymouth in 1994, and these seats became part of the much larger South West England constituency in 1999.
| Elected | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | David Harris | Conservative | |
| 1984 | Christopher Beazley | Conservative | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | David Harris | 94,650 | 55.1 | ||
| Labour | D. Leather | 36,681 | 21.4 | ||
| Liberal | G. H. T. Spring | 23,105 | 13.5 | ||
| Mebyon Kernow | Richard Jenkin | 10,205 | 5.9 | ||
| Ecology | Edward Goldsmith | 5,125 | 3.0 | ||
| United Against the Common Market | A. E. M. Ash | 1,834 | 1.1 | ||
| Majority | 57,969 | 33.7 | |||
| Turnout | 171,600 | 35.0 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Christopher Beazley | 81,627 | 42.5 | -12.6 | |
| SDP | Jonathan Marks | 63,876 | 33.3 | +19.8 | |
| Labour | John Cosgrove | 35,952 | 18.7 | -2.7 | |
| Independent | Anthony Parkyn | 5,645 | 2.9 | New | |
| Independent Liberal | Robin Trevallion | 2,981 | 1.6 | New | |
| Cornish Nationalist | James Whetter | 1,892 | 1.0 | New | |
| Majority | 17,751 | 9.2 | -24.5 | ||
| Turnout | 191,883 | 37.9 | +2.9 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Christopher Beazley | 88,376 | 38.9 | -3.6 | |
| SLD | Paul Tyler | 68,559 | 30.2 | -3.1 | |
| Labour | Dorothy Kirk | 41,446 | 18.3 | -0.4 | |
| Green | Howard Hoptrough | 24,581 | 10.8 | New | |
| Mebyon Kernow | Colin Lawry | 4,224 | 1.9 | New | |
| Majority | 19,817 | 8.7 | -0.5 | ||
| Turnout | 227,186 | 41.9 | +4.0 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
