Wight and Hampshire East (European Parliament constituency)

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.

Wight and Hampshire East
European Parliament constituency
Boundary within South West England (1979–1984)
Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1994
MEPs	1
Sources

The constituency of Wight and Hampshire East was one of them.

It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Aldershot, Fareham, Farnham, Gosport, Isle of Wight, Petersfield, Portsmouth North, and Portsmouth South.^[1]

Boundary within South West England (1984–1994)

Members of the European Parliament

Elected		Member	Party
	1979	Stanley Johnson	Conservative
	1984	Richard Simmonds	Conservative
1994		Constituency abolished

Election results

European Parliament election, 1979: Wight and Hampshire East^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stanley Johnson	128,414	64.7
	Liberal	Baroness Seear	35,248	17.7
	Labour	L. F. Bennett	34,901	17.6
Majority			93,166	47.0
Turnout			198,563	34.5
	Conservative win (new seat)

European Parliament election, 1984: Wight and Hampshire East^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Simmonds	96,666	51.7	−13.0
	Liberal	Miss S. A. Ludford	53,738	28.8	+11.1
	Labour	Jim A. Phillips	36,445	19.5	+1.9
Majority			42,928	22.9	−24.1
Turnout			186,849	34.3	−0.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

European Parliament election, 1989: Wight and Hampshire East^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Simmonds	90,658	44.9	−6.8
	Labour	Alan D. Burnett	51,228	25.3	+5.8
	Green	Steven L. Rackett	40,664	20.1	New
	SLD	Miss Viv A. Rayner	19,569	9.7	−19.1
Majority			39,430	19.6	−3.3
Turnout			202,119	35.2	+0.9
	Conservative hold		Swing