1994 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

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1994 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
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87 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout 36.4% (Steady)
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Pauline Green Christopher Prout Robert Teverson
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrat
Alliance PES European People's Party Group ALDE
Leader's seat London North Shropshire and Stafford (defeated) Cornwall and West Plymouth
Last election 45 seats, 38.7% 32 seats, 33.7% 0 seats, 5.9%
Seats won 62 18 2
Seat change Increase17 Decrease13 Increase2
Popular vote 6,753,881 4,274,122 2,557,887
Percentage 42.6% 26.8% 16.1%
Swing Increase3.9% Decrease6.7% Increase10.2%
  Fourth party
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Leader Alex Salmond
Party SNP
Alliance European Free Alliance
Leader since 22 September 1990
Leader's seat N/A
Last election 1 seat, 2.6%
Seats before 1
Seats won 2
Seat change Increase1
Popular vote 487,237
Percentage 3.1
Swing Increase0.5%
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Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.
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Leader of Largest Party before election

Margaret Beckett
Labour

 Subsequent Leader of Largest Party

Margaret Beckett
Labour

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The 1994 European Parliament election was the fourth European election to be held in the United Kingdom. It was held on Thursday 9 June, though, as usual, the ballots were not counted until the evening of Sunday 12 June. The electoral system was, for the final European election, first past the post in England, Scotland and Wales and single transferable vote in Northern Ireland. This was the first election with 87 MEPs, the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993 having increased the number of seats for the UK from 81. For the first time, the UK did not have the lowest turnout in Europe. Turnout was lower in the Netherlands and Portugal.

This was the first European election contested by the recently formed UK Independence Party (UKIP), and the first European election in which the Liberal Democrats won seats. The Green Party lost more than three-quarters of the votes they secured in the previous election. The Conservatives lost 14 seats, taking their number of seats down to 18, which was 42 fewer seats than in the 1979 election, the year they defeated the Labour Party in the 1979 General Election. This reflected the general unpopularity of the Major government at the time.

Six by-elections to the British Parliament also took place on the same day in the Barking, Bradford South, Dagenham, Eastleigh, Monklands East, and Newham North East constituencies. The Conservatives lost Eastleigh to the Liberal Democrats; Labour would hold the other five.

Labour was under the interim leadership of Margaret Beckett following the sudden death of leader John Smith the previous month.

Results

United Kingdom

Sources:

Party Votes won[1]  % of vote Loss/Gain Seats  % of seats Loss/Gain
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour 6,753,881 42.6 Increase3.9 62 71.3 Increase17
style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative 4,274,122 26.8 Decrease6.7 18 20.7 Decrease13
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat 2,557,887 16.1 Increase10.2 2 2.3 Increase2
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | SNP 487,237 3.1 Increase0.5 2 2.3 Increase1
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6AB023;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | Green 471,257 3.0 Decrease11.5 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" | DUP 163,246 1.0 Steady 1 1.1 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008142;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | Plaid Cymru 162,478 1.0 Increase0.3 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" | SDLP 161,992 1.0 Increase0.2 1 1.1 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent 153,917 1.0 Increase0.9 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #70147A;" data-sort-value="UK Independence Party" | UKIP 150,251 1.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #9999FF;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" | UUP 133,459 0.8 Increase0.1 1 1.1 Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #ff7300;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK, 1989)" | Liberal 100,500 0.6 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffe4e1;" data-sort-value="Natural Law Party" | Natural Law 98,845 0.6 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | Sinn Féin 55,215 0.3 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Greens/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Greens" | [[Scottish Greens|Template:Scottish Greens/meta/shortname]] 23,304 0.1 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" | Alliance 23,157 0.1 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: MidnightBlue;" data-sort-value="National Front (UK)" | National Front 12,469 0.1 Increase0.1 0 Steady Steady
Moderate Labour 12,113 0.1 New 0 Steady Steady
Literal Democrat 10,203 0.1 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: darkgray;" data-sort-value="Ulster Independence Movement" | Ulster Independence 7,858 0.1 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: hotpink;" data-sort-value="Official Monster Raving Loony Party" | Monster Raving Loony 7,798 0.1 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDEEFF;" data-sort-value="Independent Conservative" | Independent Conservative 5,847 0.0 Steady 0 Steady Steady
Independent Socialist 5,071 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: red;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of Britain" | Communist 4,323 0.0 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #CCCC00;" data-sort-value="Mebyon Kernow" | Mebyon Kernow 3,315 0.0 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #D73D3D;" data-sort-value="Workers' Party (Ireland)" | [[Workers' Party (Ireland)|Template:Workers' Party (Ireland)/meta/shortname]] 2,543 0.0 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party of Northern Ireland" | Labour Party NI 2,464 0.0 Steady 0 Steady Steady
Other 7,837 0.1 N/A 0 Steady Steady

Total votes cast – 15,852,589. All parties shown.

Great Britain

File:European Parliament election, 1994 (Scotland).svg
Map of the Scottish results.

Sources:

Party Votes won[1]  % of vote Loss/Gain Seats  % of seats Loss/Gain
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | Labour 6,753,881 44.2 Increase4.1 62 73.8 Increase17
style="width: 5px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | Conservative 4,268,539 27.8 Decrease6.8 18 21.4 Decrease13
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FDBB30;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | Liberal Democrat 2,557,887 16.7 Increase10.6 2 2.4 Increase2
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | SNP 487,237 3.2 Increase0.5 2 2.4 Increase1
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6AB023;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | Green 471,257 3.1 Decrease11.8 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008142;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | Plaid Cymru 162,478 1.1 Increase0.3 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent 151,858 1.0 Increase0.9 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #70147A;" data-sort-value="UK Independence Party" | UKIP 150,251 1.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #ff7300;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK, 1989)" | Liberal 100,500 0.7 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffe4e1;" data-sort-value="Natural Law Party" | Natural Law 96,554 0.6 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Greens/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Greens" | [[Scottish Greens|Template:Scottish Greens/meta/shortname]] 23,304 0.2 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: MidnightBlue;" data-sort-value="National Front (UK)" | National Front 12,469 0.1 New 0 Steady Steady
Moderate Labour 12,113 0.1 New 0 Steady Steady
Literal Democrat 10,203 0.1 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: hotpink;" data-sort-value="Official Monster Raving Loony Party" | Monster Raving Loony 7,798 0.1 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDEEFF;" data-sort-value="Independent Conservative" | Independent Conservative 5,847 0.0 Steady 0 Steady Steady
Independent Socialist 5,071 0.0 New 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: red;" data-sort-value="Communist Party of Britain" | Communist 4,323 0.0 Steady 0 Steady Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #CCCC00;" data-sort-value="Mebyon Kernow" | Mebyon Kernow 3,315 0.0 Steady 0 Steady Steady
Other 7,837 0.1 N/A 0 Steady Steady

Total votes cast – 15,292,722. All parties shown.

Northern Ireland

File:European Parliament election, 1979-1999 (Northern Ireland, UK).svg
Map of Northern Irish results
European Parliament election, 1994 (United Kingdom): Northern Ireland – 3 seats[2][3]
Party Candidate  % 1st Pref Count 1 Count 2
DUP Ian Paisley 29.2 163,246  
SDLP John Hume 28.9 161,992  
UUP Jim Nicholson 23.8 133,459 149,541.25
Alliance Mary Clark-Glass 4.1 23,157 23,375.55
Sinn Féin Tom Hartley 3.8 21,273 21,278.10
Sinn Féin Dodie McGuinness 3.1 17,195 17,238.95
Sinn Féin Francie Molloy 3.0 16,747 16.756.60
Ulster Independence Hugh Ross 1.4 7,858 12,575.05
NI Conservatives Myrtle Boal 1.0 5,583 6,106.95
Workers' Party (Ireland) John Lowry 0.5 2,543 2,579.00
Labour Party NI Niall Cusack 0.4 2,464 2,518.90
Natural Law James Anderson 0.2 1,418 1,492.70
Independent June Campion 0.2 1,088 1,127.15
Independent David Kerr 0.1 571 877.15
Natural Law Susannah Thompson 0.1 454 534.40
Independent Robert Mooney 0.1 400 455.95
Natural Law Michael Kennedy 0.1 419 443.90
Electorate: 1,151,389   Valid: 559,867   Spoilt: 9,234   Quota: 139,967   Turnout: 49.4%

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  • Note 1: Campion's candidacy, with the ballot paper description 'Peace Coalition', was supported by Democratic Left, the Greens and some Labour groups.
  • Note 2: Kerr appeared on the ballot paper with the description Independence for Ulster.
  • Note 3: Mooney appeared on the ballot paper with the description Constitutional Independent Northern Ireland.

MEPs retiring

Conservative

Labour

MEPs defeated

Labour

Conservative

See also

References

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  2. ↑ The 1994 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
  3. ↑ [1], Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive
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