Cotswolds (European Parliament constituency)

Cotswolds
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1999
MEPs	1
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Cotswolds (sometimes called "The Cotswolds") was a European Parliament constituency covering the counties of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire in England.

Before uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in Great Britain. 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 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Banbury, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Mid Oxfordshire, Oxford and Stroud.^[1] From 1984 it consisted of Banbury, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Stratford-on-Avon, Stroud and Witney. From 1994 it consisted of Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Stroud, West Gloucestershire and Witney.

Members of the European Parliament

Elected	Name	Party
1979	Sir Henry (later Lord) Plumb		Conservative

European Parliament election 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Sir Henry Plumb	109,139	58.6
	Labour	J.A. Honeybone	37,713	20.3
	Liberal	Miss M.E. Burton	27,916	15.0
	United Against the Common Market	D.C.T. Bennett	11,422	6.1
Majority			71,426	38.3
	Conservative win (new seat)

European Parliament election 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Sir Henry Plumb	94,740	53.5
	Liberal	Miss M.E. Burton	45,798	25.8
	Labour	Mrs. J.A. Royall	36,738	20.7
Majority			48,942	27.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

European Parliament election, 1989
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Lord Plumb	94,852	45.1
	Green	Mrs. M.S. Limb	49,174	23.4
	Labour	T. Levitt	48,180	22.9
	Social and Liberal Democrats	L.A. Rowe	18,196	8.6
Majority			45,678	21.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

European Parliament election,1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Lord Plumb	67,484	34.5
	Labour	Mrs. Tess J. Kingham	63,216	32.3
	Liberal Democrat	J.C. Thomson	44,269	22.7
	New Britain	M.D. Rendell	11,044	5.7
	Green	D. McCanlis	8,254	4.2
	Natural Law	H.W. Brighouse	1,151	0.6
Majority			4,268	2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

England	Bedfordshire Birmingham North Birmingham South Bristol Cambridgeshire Cheshire East Cheshire West Cleveland Cornwall and Plymouth Cotswolds Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Durham Essex North East Essex South West Greater Manchester North Greater Manchester South Greater Manchester West Hampshire West Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire Humberside Kent East Kent West Lancashire Central Lancashire East Lancashire West Leeds Leicester Lincolnshire Liverpool London Central London East London North London North East London North West London South London South East London South Inner London South West London West Midlands Central Midlands East Midlands West Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumbria Nottingham Salop and Stafford Sheffield Somerset Staffordshire East Suffolk Surrey Sussex East Sussex West Thames Valley Tyne South and Wear Upper Thames Wessex Wight and Hampshire East Yorkshire North Yorkshire South Yorkshire South West Yorkshire West

Wales	Mid and West Wales North Wales South East Wales South Wales

Scotland	Glasgow Highlands and Islands Lothians Mid Scotland and Fife North East Scotland South of Scotland Strathclyde East Strathclyde West

Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland

Key

* Constituency created 1981

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