European elections in the United Kingdom in 1989

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Turnout: 36.0%

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

41.0

34.7

14.9

6.4

2.6

1.0

1.7

Labor ^a

Tories

Green ^c

Liberals ^d

SNP

DUP

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to

 % p

 16

 14th

 12

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-12

-14

+3.4

-6.1

+14.4

-13.3

+0.9

-0.6

+0.5

Labor ^a

Tories

Green ^c

Liberals ^d

SNP

DUP

Otherwise.

Remarks:

^a with SDLP

^c 1984 Ecology Party 0.5%

^d with Alliance

British seats in the European Parliament by political group

     

A total of 81 seats

• Socialists (Labor, SDLP): 46
• Rainbow fraction (SNP): 1
• European People's Party (UUP): 1
• European Democrats (Tories): 32
• non-attached (DUP): 1

The European elections in the United Kingdom in 1989 took place on June 15, 1989. It was part of the European elections in 1989 , the third direct election of the European Parliament . In the UK , 81 of the 518 MEPs were elected.

Electoral system

The voting system was identical to the 1984 election . Of the 81 mandates, 78 in England, Wales and Scotland were awarded in single-electoral constituencies according to relative majority voting, similar to the right to vote in the British House of Commons . The three mandates for Northern Ireland were given in an electoral constituency with single transferable voting.

Election result

At 36%, the turnout was slightly higher than in the 1989 election, but it was again the lowest in the European Community .

As a result, the opposition Labor was able to record gains of 3.9 percentage points, which led to 13 additional mandates at the expense of the ruling Conservative Tories through majority voting.

The third strongest party was the Greens, which achieved a record result with 14.5% of the vote. However, they couldn't win a constituency. The LibDems resulting from the alliance of SDP and Liberals had arisen, lost 12.6 percentage points compared to the election in 1984. The Scottish National Party (SNP) has defended its sole mandate. As in 1979 and 1984, the three seats in Northern Ireland went to DUP, UUP and SDLP.

Great Britain

Political party		be right	percent	+/-	Mandates	+/-	fraction
	Conservative party	5,331,098	34.7%	-6.1	32	-13	European democrats
	Labor Party	6,153,661	40.1%	+3.6	45	+13	Socialist faction
	Green Party of England and Wales	2,292,718	14.9%	+14.4	-	-
	Liberal Democrats	944.861	6.2%	-13.3	-	-
	Scottish National Party	406.686	2.6%	+0.9	1	± 0	Rainbow faction
	Plaid Cymru	115.062	0.7%	-0.1	-	-
	SDP	75.886	0.5%	+0.5	-	-
	Other	28,571	0.2%	+0.1	-	-
	Independent	12.724	0.1%	± 0.0	-	-
Voters		15,361,267

Northern Ireland

Political party		First preferences	proportion of	+/-	Seats	fraction
	Democratic Unionist Party	160.110	29.9%	-3.7	1	Non-attached
	Social Democratic and Labor Party	136.335	25.5%	+3.4	1	Socialist faction
	Ulster Unionist Party	118.785	22.2%	+0.7	1	European People's Party
	Sinn Féin	48.914	9.1%	-4.2	-
	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland	27,905	5.2%	+0.2	-
	NI Conservatives	25.789	4.8%	New	-
	Green Party in Northern Ireland	6.569	1.2%	+ 0.9	-
	Workers' Party of Ireland	5,590	1.0%	-0.3	-
	Labor Representation	3,540	0.7%	New	-
	Labor '87	1.274	0.2%	New	-
Voters		534.811

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/fe84.htm