Cumbria (European Parliament constituency)

Cumbria
Cumbria
	European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1984
MEPs	1
Sources
	[1]

Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in Great Britain. 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.

Created for the 1979 European Parliament elections in 1979, Cumbria was a single-member constituency formed from the grouping of numerous neighbouring British Parliament constituencies.

The constituency saw only one election under the chosen boundaries, with the county of Cumbria and electors in Westminster constituencies as far south as the Fylde coast electing its MEP as one constituency in 1979 only. In subsequent elections, the constituency became the expanded Cumbria and Lancashire North.

Boundaries

Barrow-in-Furness; Carlisle; Fylde North; Lancaster; Morecambe and Lonsdale; Penrith and the Border; Westmorland; Whitehaven; Workington

Members of the European Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1979	Elaine Kellett-Bowman	Conservative

Election results

European Parliament election, 1979: Cumbria
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Elaine Kellett-Bowman	104,471	56.4
	Labour	H Little	62,485	33.7
	Liberal	E M Graham	16,631	9.0
	Independent	E Burrows	1,596	0.9
Majority			41,986	22.7
Turnout				34.9
	Conservative win

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David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results

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