Northern Ireland (European Parliament constituency)
constituency of the European Parliament
Northern Ireland was a constituency of the European Parliament. The Northern Ireland members of the European Parliament were chosen using Single Transferable Vote. The constituency was all of Northern Ireland.
Members of the European Parliament
change| Year | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Ian Paisley | DUP | John Hume | SDLP | John Taylor | Ulster Unionist | |||
| 1989 | Jim Nicholson | Ulster Unionist | |||||||
| 2004 | Jim Allister | DUP | Bairbre de Brún | Sinn Féin | |||||
| 2007 | TUV | ||||||||
Election results
change| European Parliament election 2004: Northern Ireland [1] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | ||
| Number | % of vote | |||||
| DUP | Jim Allister | 1 | 0 | 175,761 | 31.9 | |
| Sinn Féin | Bairbre de Brun | 1 | +1 | 144,541 | 26.3 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 91,164 | 16.6 | |
| SDLP | Martin Morgan | 0 | -1 | 87,559 | 15.9 | |
| Independent | John Gilliland | 0 | 0 | 36,270 | 6.6 | |
| Socialist Environmental | Eamon McCann | 0 | 0 | 9,172 | 1.6 | |
| Green (NI) | Lindsay Whitcroft | 0 | 0 | 4,810 | 0.9 | |
| Turnout | 51.7 | |||||
| European Parliament election 1999: Northern Ireland [2] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| DUP | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 192,762 | 28.4 | ||
| SDLP | John Hume | 1 | 0 | 190,731 | 28.1 | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 119,507 | 17.6 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Mitchel McLaughlin | 0 | 0 | 117,643 | 17.3 | ||
| PUP | David Ervine | 0 | 0 | 22,494 | 3.31 | ||
| UK Unionist | Robert McCartney | 0 | 0 | 20,283 | 2.98 | ||
| Alliance | Sean Neeson | 0 | 0 | 14,391 | 2.12 | ||
| Natural Law | James Anderson | 0 | 0 | 998 | 0.15 | ||
| Turnout | 678,809 | ||||||
| European Parliament election 1994: Northern Ireland [3] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| DUP | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 163,246 | 29.2 | ||
| SDLP | John Hume | 1 | 0 | 161,992 | 28.9 | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 133,459 | 23.8 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Tom Hartley Dodie McGuinness Francie Molloy |
0 | 0 | 55,215 | 9.9 | ||
| Alliance | Mary Clark-Glass | 0 | 0 | 23,157 | 4.1 | ||
| Ulster Independence | Hugh Ross | 0 | 0 | 7,858 | 1.4 | ||
| Conservative | Myrtle Boal | 0 | 0 | 5,583 | 1.0 | ||
| Workers' Party | John Lowry | 0 | 0 | 2,543 | 0.5 | ||
| Labour Party NI | Niall Cusack | 0 | 0 | 2,464 | 0.4 | ||
| Natural Law | James Anderson Susannah Thompson Michael Kennedy |
0 | 0 | 2,291 | 0.4 | ||
| Peace Coalition | June Campion | 0 | 0 | 1,088 | 0.2 | ||
| Independent Ulster | David Kerr | 0 | 0 | 579 | 0.1 | ||
| Constitutional Independent NI | Robert Mooney | 0 | 0 | 400 | 0.1 | ||
| Turnout | 559,867 | ||||||
| European Parliament election 1989: Northern Ireland [4] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| DUP | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 160,110 | 30 | ||
| SDLP | John Hume | 1 | 0 | 136,335 | 25 | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 118,785 | 22 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Danny Morrison | 0 | 0 | 48,914 | 9 | ||
| Alliance | John Alderdice | 0 | 0 | 27,905 | 5 | ||
| Conservative | Myrtle Boal | 0 | 0 | 25,789 | 5 | ||
| Green | Malcolm Samuel | 0 | 0 | 6,569 | 1 | ||
| Workers' Party | Seamus Lynch | 0 | 0 | 5,590 | 1 | ||
| Labour Representation | Mark Langhammer | 0 | 0 | 3,540 | 0 | ||
| Labour '87 | Brian Caul | 0 | 0 | 1,274 | 0 | ||
| Turnout | 534,811 | ||||||
| European Parliament election 1984: Northern Ireland [5] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| DUP | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 230,251 | 33.6 | ||
| SDLP | John Hume | 1 | 0 | 151,399 | 22.1 | ||
| Ulster Unionist | John Taylor | 1 | 0 | 147,169 | 21.5 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Danny Morrison | 0 | 0 | 91,476 | 13.3 | ||
| Alliance | David Cook | 0 | 0 | 34,046 | 5.0 | ||
| UPUP | James Kilfedder | 0 | 0 | 20,092 | 2.9 | ||
| Workers' Party | Seamus Lynch | 0 | 0 | 8,712 | 1.3 | ||
| Ecology | Colin McGuigan | 0 | 0 | 2,172 | 0.3 | ||
| Turnout | 685,317 | ||||||
| European Parliament election 1979: Northern Ireland [6] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| DUP | Ian Paisley | 1 | N/A | 170,688 | 29.8 | ||
| SDLP | John Hume | 1 | N/A | 140,622 | 25.5 | ||
| Ulster Unionist | John Taylor Harry West |
1 | N/A | 125,169 | 21.9 | ||
| Alliance | Oliver Napier | 0 | N/A | 39,026 | 6.8 | ||
| Ind. Unionist | James Kilfedder | 0 | N/A | 38,198 | 6.7 | ||
| Independent | Bernadette McAliskey | 0 | N/A | 33,969 | 5.9 | ||
| United Community | David Bleakley | 0 | N/A | 9,383 | 1.6 | ||
| United Labour | Paddy Devlin | 0 | N/A | 6,122 | 1.1 | ||
| Workers' Party | Brian Brennan Francis Donnelly |
0 | N/A | 4,418 | 0.8 | ||
| Unionist Party NI | Eddie Cummings | 0 | N/A | 3,712 | 0.6 | ||
| Ulster Liberal | James Murray | 0 | N/A | 932 | 0.2 | ||
| Turnout | 572,239 | ||||||
References
change- ↑ The 2004 European Election Archived 2007-04-04 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ The 1999 European Election Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ The 1994 European Election Archived 2013-03-18 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ The 1989 European Election Archived 2009-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ The 1984 European Election Archived 2009-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ The 1979 European Election Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections