Durham
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1999
MEPs	1
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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 of Durham was one of them.

From 1979 to 1984, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Bishop Auckland, Chester-le-Street, Consett, Darlington, Durham, Durham North West, Easington, and Houghton-le-Spring.^[1] From 1984 to 1999 it consisted of: Bishop Auckland, Blaydon, City of Durham, Darlington, Easington, North Durham, North West Durham, Sedgefield.

Members of the European Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1979	Roland Boyes	Labour
	1984	Stephen Hughes
	1989
	1994
1999		Constituency abolished: see North East England

Election results

European elections 1979: Durham^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Roland Boyes	81,982	54.2
	Conservative	R. Sheaf	53,043	35.1
	Liberal	Chris Foote Wood	16,094	10.7
Majority			28,939	19.1
Turnout			151,029	27.7
	Labour hold		Swing

European elections 1984: Durham^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Hughes	106,073	57.9	+3.7
	Conservative	Hon. W.R.F. Vane	44,846	24.5	-10.6
	Liberal	Chris Foote Wood	32,307	17.6	+6.9
Majority			61,227	33.4	+14.3
Turnout			183,226	34.6	+6.9
	Labour hold		Swing

European elections 1989: Durham^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Hughes	124,448	65.8	+7.9
	Conservative	Robert Hull	37,600	19.9	-4.6
	Green	Miss Hazel I. Lennox	18,770	9.9	New
	SLD	Peter Freitag	8,369	4.4	-13.2
Majority			86,848	45.9	+11.5
Turnout			189,187	35.7	+1.1
	Labour hold		Swing

European elections 1994: Durham^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Hughes	136,671	72.1	+6.3
	Conservative	Philip Bradbourn	25,033	13.2	-6.7
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Martin	20,935	11.1	+6.7
	Green	Simeon R. Hope	5,670	3.0	-6.9
	Natural Law	Christopher J. Adamson	1,198	0.6	New
Majority			111,638	58.9	+13.0
Turnout			532,051	35.6	-0.1
	Labour hold		Swing

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