Cornwall and West Plymouth (European Parliament constituency) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Cornwall and West Plymouth
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
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Cornwall and West Plymouth was a European Parliament constituency covering Cornwall and Plymouth in England. With Somerset and North Devon, it was one of the first two seats to elect a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament.

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 seat consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Falmouth and Camborne, North Cornwall, Plymouth Devonport, Plymouth Drake, St Ives, South East Cornwall and Truro.

Cornwall and West Plymouth was created in 1994 to replace most of Cornwall and Plymouth. It became part of the much larger South West England constituency in 1999.

Members of the European Parliament

Elected	Name	Party
1994	Robin Teverson		Liberal Democrat

Results

European Parliament election, 1994: Cornwall and West Plymouth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Robin Teverson	91,113	41.9	N/A
	Conservative	Christopher Beazley	61,615	28.3	N/A
	Labour	Dorothy Kirk	42,907	19.7	N/A
	[[United Kingdom Independence Party|Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/shortname]]	P. E. Garnier	6,466	3.0	N/A
	[[Liberal Party (UK, 1989)|Template:Liberal Party (UK, 1989)/meta/shortname]]	Paul Holmes	6,414	2.9	N/A
	Green	K. L. Westbrook	4,372	2.0	N/A
	[[Mebyon Kernow|Template:Mebyon Kernow/meta/shortname]]	Loveday Jenkin	3,315	1.5	N/A
	Natural Law	Francis Lyons	921	0.4	N/A
	Subsidiarity	M. G. Fitzgerald	606	0.3	N/A
Majority			29,498	13.6	N/A
Turnout				44.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrat win (new seat)

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