Upper Thames (European Parliament constituency)

Upper Thames
Upper Thames
	European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1984
MEPs	1
Sources
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Upper Thames was a United Kingdom European Parliament constituency, electing one member under the first-past-the-post system. It came into being for the European Parliament election of 1979 and ceased to exist in 1984, due to boundary reorganization.

Upper Thames consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Abingdon, Devizes, Henley, Newbury, Swindon, Reading North, and Reading South. Its only Member of the European Parliament was Robert Jackson.^[1]

Members of the European Parliament

Elected	Name	Party
1979	Robert Jackson		Conservative

Election results

European Parliament election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Robert Jackson	103,488	59.4
	Labour	P.H. Gray	39,900	22.9
	Liberal	Jack Ainslie	30,907	17.17
Majority			63,588	36.5
	Conservative win

References

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