The Cotswolds (European Parliament constituency)

The Cotswolds (sometimes called "Cotswolds") was a European Parliament constituency covering the counties of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire in England.

Before 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.

When it was created in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Banbury, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Mid Oxfordshire, Oxford and Stroud. From 1984 it consisted of Banbury, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Stratford-on-Avon, Stroud and Witney. From 1994 it consisted of Cheltenham, Cirencester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Stroud, West Gloucestershire and Witney.

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Boundary within the West Midlands (1984-1994)

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Boundary within South West England (1994-1999)

Members of the European Parliament

Elected	Name	Party
1979	Sir Henry (later Lord) Plumb	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color

Election results

European Parliament election, 1979: Cotswolds

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Sir Henry Plumb	Template:Replace	58.6
		Jim A. Honeybone	37,713	20.3
		Muriel Eda Burton	27,916	15.0
	United Against the Common Market	Donald Bennett	11,422	6.1
Majority			71,426	38.3
Turnout			186,190
	win (new seat)

European Parliament election, 1984: Cotswolds

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Sir Henry Plumb	Template:Replace	53.5
		Muriel Eda Burton	45,798	25.8
		Janet A. Royall	36,738	20.7
Majority			48,942	27.7
Turnout			177,276
	hold		Swing

European Parliament election, 1989: Cotswolds

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Lord Plumb	Template:Replace	45.1
		Sue Limb	49,174	23.4
		Tom Levitt	48,180	22.9
		Leslie Anthony Rowe	18,196	8.6
Majority			45,678	21.7
Turnout			210,402
	hold		Swing

European Parliament election, 1994: Cotswolds

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Lord Plumb	Template:Replace	34.5
		Tess J. Kingham	63,216	32.3
		John C. Thomson	44,269	22.7
		Melvyn D. Rendell	11,044	5.7
		Duncan McCanlis	8,254	4.2
		Henry W. Brighouse	1,151	0.6
Majority			4,268	2.2
Turnout			195,418
	hold		Swing

External links

• David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results

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