Northern Ireland (European Parliament constituency) facts for kids
Northern Ireland is a constituency of the European Parliament. The Northern Ireland Members of the European Parliament are chosen using Single Transferable Vote. The constituency is all of Northern Ireland.
Members of the European Parliament
Year | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | |||
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1979 | Ian Paisley | Democratic Unionist | John Hume | Social Democratic and Labour | John Taylor | Ulster Unionist | |||
1989 | Jim Nicholson | Ulster Unionist | |||||||
2004 | Jim Allister | Democratic Unionist | Bairbre de Brún | Sinn Féin | |||||
2007 | Traditional Unionist Voice |
Election results
European Parliament election 2004: Northern Ireland | ||||||
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Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | ||
Number | % of vote | |||||
Democratic Unionist | Jim Allister | 1 | 0 | 175,761 | 31.9 | |
Sinn Féin | Bairbre de Brun | 1 | +1 | 144,541 | 26.3 | |
Ulster Unionist | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 91,164 | 16.6 | |
Social Democratic and Labour | Martin Morgan | 0 | -1 | 87,559 | 15.9 | |
Independent | John Gilliland | 0 | 0 | 36,270 | 6.6 | |
Socialist Environmental | Eamon McCann | 0 | 0 | 9,172 | 1.6 | |
Green Party | Lindsay Whitcroft | 0 | 0 | 4,810 | 0.9 | |
Turnout | 51.7 |
European Parliament election 1999: Northern Ireland | |||||||
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Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
Number | % of vote | ||||||
Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 192,762 | 28.4 | ||
Social Democratic and Labour | John Hume | 1 | 0 | 190,731 | 28.1 | ||
Ulster Unionist | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 119,507 | 17.6 | ||
Sinn Féin | Mitchel McLaughlin | 0 | 0 | 117,643 | 17.3 | ||
Progressive Unionist | David Ervine | 0 | 0 | 22,494 | 3.31 | ||
UK Unionist | Robert McCartney | 0 | 0 | 20,283 | 2.98 | ||
Alliance | Sean Neeson | 0 | 0 | 14,391 | 2.12 | ||
Natural Law | James Anderson | 0 | 0 | 998 | 0.15 | ||
Turnout | 678,809 |
European Parliament election 1994: Northern Ireland | |||||||
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Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
Number | % of vote | ||||||
Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 163,246 | 29.2 | ||
Social Democratic and Labour | John Hume | 1 | 0 | 161,992 | 28.9 | ||
Ulster Unionist | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 133,459 | 23.8 | ||
Sinn Féin | Tom Hartley Dodie McGuinness Francie Molloy |
0 | 0 | 55,215 | 9.9 | ||
Alliance | Mary Clark-Glass | 0 | 0 | 23,157 | 4.1 | ||
Ulster Independence | Hugh Ross | 0 | 0 | 7,858 | 1.4 | ||
Conservative | Myrtle Boal | 0 | 0 | 5,583 | 1.0 | ||
Workers' Party | John Lowry | 0 | 0 | 2,543 | 0.5 | ||
Labour (NI) | Niall Cusack | 0 | 0 | 2,464 | 0.4 | ||
Natural Law | James Anderson Susannah Thompson Michael Kennedy |
0 | 0 | 2,291 | 0.4 | ||
Peace Coalition | June Campion | 0 | 0 | 1,088 | 0.2 | ||
Independent Ulster | David Kerr | 0 | 0 | 579 | 0.1 | ||
Constitutional Independent NI | Robert Mooney | 0 | 0 | 400 | 0.1 | ||
Turnout | 559,867 |
European Parliament election 1989: Northern Ireland | |||||||
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Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
Number | % of vote | ||||||
Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 160,110 | 30 | ||
Social Democratic and Labour | John Hume | 1 | 0 | 136,335 | 25 | ||
Ulster Unionist | Jim Nicholson | 1 | 0 | 118,785 | 22 | ||
Sinn Féin | Danny Morrison | 0 | 0 | 48,914 | 9 | ||
Alliance | John Alderdice | 0 | 0 | 27,905 | 5 | ||
Conservative | Myrtle Boal | 0 | 0 | 25,789 | 5 | ||
Green | Malcolm Samuel | 0 | 0 | 6,569 | 1 | ||
Workers' Party | Seamus Lynch | 0 | 0 | 5,590 | 1 | ||
Labour Representation | Mark Langhammer | 0 | 0 | 3,540 | 0 | ||
Labour '87 | Brian Caul | 0 | 0 | 1,274 | 0 | ||
Turnout | 534,811 |
European Parliament election 1984: Northern Ireland | |||||||
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Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
Number | % of vote | ||||||
Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 1 | 0 | 230,251 | 33.6 | ||
Social Democratic and Labour | John Hume | 1 | 0 | 151,399 | 22.1 | ||
Ulster Unionist | John Taylor | 1 | 0 | 147,169 | 21.5 | ||
Sinn Féin | Danny Morrison | 0 | 0 | 91,476 | 13.3 | ||
Alliance | David Cook | 0 | 0 | 34,046 | 5.0 | ||
Ulster Popular Unionist | James Kilfedder | 0 | 0 | 20,092 | 2.9 | ||
Workers' Party | Seamus Lynch | 0 | 0 | 8,712 | 1.3 | ||
Ecology | Colin McGuigan | 0 | 0 | 2,172 | 0.3 | ||
Turnout | 685,317 |
European Parliament election 1979: Northern Ireland | |||||||
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Party | Candidate(s) | Seats | Loss/Gain | First Preference Votes | |||
Number | % of vote | ||||||
Democratic Unionist | Ian Paisley | 1 | N/A | 170,688 | 29.8 | ||
Social Democratic and Labour | John Hume | 1 | N/A | 140,622 | 25.5 | ||
Ulster Unionist | John Taylor Harry West |
1 | N/A | 125,169 | 21.9 | ||
Alliance | Oliver Napier | 0 | N/A | 39,026 | 6.8 | ||
Independent Unionist | James Kilfedder | 0 | N/A | 38,198 | 6.7 | ||
Independent | Bernadette McAliskey | 0 | N/A | 33,969 | 5.9 | ||
United Community | David Bleakley | 0 | N/A | 9,383 | 1.6 | ||
United Labour | Paddy Devlin | 0 | N/A | 6,122 | 1.1 | ||
Workers' Party | Brian Brennan Francis Donnelly |
0 | N/A | 4,418 | 0.8 | ||
Unionist Party NI | Eddie Cummings | 0 | N/A | 3,712 | 0.6 | ||
Liberal | James Murray | 0 | N/A | 932 | 0.2 | ||
Turnout | 572,239 |
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