Dorset East and Hampshire West (European Parliament constituency)

Dorset East and Hampshire West
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1984
Dissolved	1994
MEPs	1
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Dorset East and Hampshire West was a European Parliament constituency covering most of Dorset and parts of western Hampshire in England.

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 replaced most of Wessex and parts of Hampshire West. It was itself replaced by much of Dorset and East Devon and parts of Itchen, Test and Avon in 1994. These seats became part of the much larger South West England and South East England constituencies in 1999.

Members of the European Parliament

Elected	Name	Party
1984	Bryan Cassidy		Conservative

European Parliament election, 1984: Dorset East and Hampshire West^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Bryan Cassidy	109,072	57.6	N/A
	Liberal	John Goss	49,181	25.9	N/A
	Labour	D. T. James	31,223	16.5	N/A
Majority			59,891	31.7	N/A
Turnout				33.5	N/A
	New creation: Conservative gain.		Swing	N/A

European Parliament election, 1989: Dorset East and Hampshire West^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Bryan Cassidy	111,469	50.4	-7.2
	Green	Krystyna Bradbury	49,695	22.5	N/A
	Labour	Haydn White	38,011	17.2	+0.7
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Howard Legg	21,809	9.9	-16.0
Majority			61,774	27.9	-3.8
Turnout				36.3	+2.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

England	Bedfordshire South^¤1 Birmingham East^¤1 Birmingham West^¤1 Bristol Cambridge and Bedfordshire North^¤1 Cheshire East Cheshire West Cleveland and Yorkshire North^¤1 Cornwall and Plymouth Cotswolds Cumbria and Lancashire North^¤1 Derbyshire Devon Dorset East and Hampshire West^¤1 Durham Essex North East Essex South West Greater Manchester Central^¤1 Greater Manchester East^¤1 Greater Manchester West Hampshire Central^¤1 Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire Humberside Kent East Kent West Lancashire Central Lancashire East Leeds Leicester Lincolnshire London Central London East London North London North East London North West London South and Surrey East^¤1 London South East London South Inner London South West London West Merseyside East^¤1 Merseyside West^¤1 Midlands Central Midlands West Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumbria Nottingham Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire^¤1 Sheffield Shropshire and Stafford^¤1 Somerset and Dorset West^¤1 Staffordshire East Suffolk Surrey West^¤1 Sussex East Sussex West Thames Valley Tyne and Wear^¤1 Wight and Hampshire East Wiltshire^¤1 York^¤1 Yorkshire South Yorkshire South West Yorkshire West

Wales	Mid and West Wales North Wales South Wales South Wales East^¤1

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: ^¤1 Constituency created in 1984; ^†2 Constituency dissolved in 1985; ^¤3 Constituency created in 1987

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