Somerset (European Parliament constituency)

Somerset
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1984
MEPs	1
Sources

Somerset was a European Parliament constituency covering all of Somerset in England, and southern Avon.

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.

The constituency was replaced by much of Somerset and West Dorset and part of Bristol in 1984. Following further changes, these seats became part of the much larger South West England constituency in 1999.

Members of the European Parliament

Elected	Name	Party
1979	Frederick Warner		Conservative

European Parliament election, 1979: Somerset^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Frederick Warner	120,057	57.0	N/A
	Liberal	Alan Butt Philip	48,600	23.1	N/A
	Labour	D. R. Lovelace	41,931	19.9	N/A
Majority			71,457	33.9	N/A
Turnout				38.4	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)

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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