South Wales East (European Parliament constituency)

South Wales East
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1984
Dissolved	1999
MEPs	1
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South Wales East was a European Parliament constituency covering south eastern Wales, including Gwent and parts of Mid Glamorgan.

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.

When it was created in Wales in 1984, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Cynon Valley, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East, Newport West, Rhondda, and Torfaen. The Cynon Valley moved to South Wales Central in 1994, leaving South Wales East with Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen.^[1]

The constituency replaced the similarly named South East Wales in 1984 and became part of the much larger Wales constituency in 1999.

Members of the European Parliament

Elected	Name	Party
1984	Llew Smith		Labour
1994	Glenys Kinnock		Labour

European elections 1989:South Wales East^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Llew Smith	138,872	64.3
	Conservative	R. J. Young	30,384	14.1
	Green	M. .J Witherden	27,869	12.9
	Plaid Cymru	Jill Evans	14,152	6.5
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	P. Nicholls-Jones	4,661	2.2
Majority			108,488	50.2
Turnout			215,938

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

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