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The European Parliament Election, 1984 was the second European election to be held in the United Kingdom. It was held on 14 June. The electoral system was First Past the Post in England, Scotland and Wales and Single Transferable Vote in Northern Ireland. The turnout was again the lowest in Europe. In England, Scotland and Wales, the Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party were in alliance, collecting 2,591,635 votes. The election represented a small recovery for Labour, under Michael Foot's replacement Neil Kinnock, taking 15 seats from the Conservatives. In the general election of 1983, they had only had a vote share of 2% more than the SDP-Liberal Alliance and 15% less than the Conservatives.

• Overall (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) turnout: 33% (EC average: 61%)
• Overall votes cast: 13,998,190

England, Scotland and Wales

Source: UK Office of the European Parliament

Note: percentages are approximate

Party		Votes	Seats	Loss/Gain	Share of Vote (%)
5,426,866	45	-15	38.8
4,865,224	32	+15	34.7
2,591,659	0	0	19
230,594	1	0	2
103,031	0	0	1
70,853	0	0	1
11,073	0	0	0
	Independent Ecology	3,330	0	0	0
	Independent Conservative	3,249	0	0	0
	Independent Liberal	2,981	0	0	0
2,365	0	0	0
	Cornish Nationalist	1,892	0	0	0
	Federal Republican	1,494	0	0	0

Total votes cast - 13,312,898. All parties listed.

Constituency Results

Source: UK-Elect

Constituency	Constituency result by party							Winning party 1984
	Con	Lab	Lib/All	SDP/All	PC	SNP	Others
Bedfordshire South	72,088	57,106	36,444
Birmingham East	54,994	76,377		21,927			1,440
Birmingham West	55,702	61,946		19,422
Bristol	94,652	77,008		33,698

Northern Ireland

Source: Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive

Party		Candidate(s)	Seats	Loss/Gain	First Preference Votes
					Number	% of vote
Ian Paisley	1	0	230,251	33.6
John Hume	1	0	151,399	22.1
John Taylor	1	0	147,169	21.5
Danny Morrison	0	0	91,476	13.3
David Cook	0	0	34,046	5.0
James Kilfedder	0	0	20,092	2.9
Seamus Lynch	0	0	8,712	1.3
Colin McGuigan	0	0	2,172	0.3

Total votes cast - 685,317.

Party Leaders in 1984

• Conservative - Margaret Thatcher
• Labour - Neil Kinnock
• Liberal - David Steel
• SDP - David Owen
• SNP - Gordon Wilson
• Plaid Cymru - Dafydd Elis Thomas
• DUP - Ian Paisley
• SDLP - John Hume
• UUP - James Molyneaux

See also

• Elections in the United Kingdom: European elections
• MEPs for the UK 1984 - 1989