| Northern Ireland European Parliament constituency |
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| Location amongst the 2007 constituencies | |
| Created | 1979 |
| MEP(s) | 3 (2004) |
| Source(s) | [1][2] |
Northern Ireland is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects three MEPs using the Single Transferable Vote, the only United Kingdom constituency to do so.
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| Year | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | |||
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| 1979 | Ian Paisley | Democratic Unionist | John Hume | Social Democratic and Labour | John Taylor | Ulster Unionist | |||
| 1984 | |||||||||
| 1989 | Jim Nicholson | ||||||||
| 1994 | |||||||||
| 1999 | |||||||||
| 2004 | Jim Allister | Bairbre de Brún | Sinn Féin | ||||||
| 2007 | Traditional Unionist Voice | ||||||||
| 2009 | Diane Dodds | Democratic Unionist | Ulster Conservative and Unionist | ||||||
2009
The election was held on Thursday 4 June 2009.[1]
| European Parliament election, 2009: Northern Ireland | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Seats | Loss/Gain (to 2004) |
First Preference Votes | ||
| Number | % of vote | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Bairbre de Brún | 1 | 0 | 126,184 | 26.0 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Diane Dodds | 1 | 0 | 88,346 | 18.2 | |
| Ulster Conservatives and Unionists | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 82,893 | 17.1 | |
| Social Democratic and Labour | Alban Maginness | 0 | 0 | 78,489 | 16.2 | |
| Traditional Unionist Voice | Jim Allister | 0 | 0 | 66,197 | 13.6 | |
| Alliance | Ian Parsley | 0 | 0 | 26,699 | 5.5 | |
| Green (NI) | Steven Agnew | 0 | 0 | 15,764 | 3.2 | |
| Turnout | 438,469 | 42.8 | ||||
- Note: Jim Allister was elected in 2004 for the DUP, but defected to the TUV during the last parliament.
Source: Electoral Office for Northern Ireland
2004
| European Parliament election 2004: Northern Ireland [2] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | ||
| Number | % of vote | |||||
| Democratic Unionist | Jim Allister | 1 | 0 | 175,761 | 31.9 | |
| Sinn Féin | Bairbre de Brún | 1 | +1 | 144,541 | 26.3 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 91,164 | 16.6 | |
| Social Democratic and Labour | 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 | 549,277 | 51.7 | ||||
1999
| European Parliament election 1999: Northern Ireland [3] | |||||||
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| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 192,762 | 28.4 | ||
| Social Democratic and Labour | 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 | ||
| Progressive Unionist | 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 | ||||||
1994
| European Parliament election 1994: Northern Ireland [4] | |||||||
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| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 163,246 | 29.2 | ||
| Social Democratic and Labour | 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 | ||||||
1989
| European Parliament election 1989: Northern Ireland [5] | |||||||
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| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 160,110 | 30 | ||
| Social Democratic and Labour | 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 | ||||||
1984
| European Parliament election 1984: Northern Ireland [6] | |||||||
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| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 230,251 | 33.6 | ||
| Social Democratic and Labour | 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 | ||
| Ulster Popular Unionist | 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 | ||||||
1979
| European Parliament election 1979: Northern Ireland [7] | |||||||
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| Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
| Number | % of vote | ||||||
| Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 1 | N/A | 170,688 | 29.8 | ||
| Social Democratic and Labour | 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 | ||
| Independent 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 Francie Donnelly |
0 | N/A | 4,418 | 0.8 | ||
| Unionist Party NI | Eddie Cummings | 0 | N/A | 3,712 | 0.6 | ||
| Liberal | James Murray | 0 | N/A | 932 | 0.2 | ||
| Turnout | 572,239 | ||||||
References
- ^ "Q&A: The 2009 elections". BBC News Online. 2009-06-03. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8070470.stm. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ^ The 2004 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ The 1999 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ The 1994 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ The 1989 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ The 1984 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ The 1979 European Election, Northern Ireland Elections
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