UK Elections Info
General Election - June 1979 >
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| MEPs by Constituency |
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| Candidates by %age of Vote |
| Votes for Parties |
| Majorities |
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| CON | 60 |
| LAB | 15 |
| LAB Co-op | 2 |
| SDLP | 1 |
| UUP | 1 |
| DUP | 1 |
| SNP | 1 |
| Party | MPs | Total Votes |
Percentage of Votes | Contests | %age Votes in Contested |
%age Votes of Total Electorate | %age Votes of Electorate Contested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative & Unionist Party | 60 | 6,502,487 | 48.38 | 78 | 50.53 | 15.81 | 16.22 |
| Labour Party | 17 | 4,264,897 | 31.73 | 78 | 33.14 | 10.37 | 10.64 |
| Scottish National Party | 1 | 247,836 | 1.84 | 8 | 19.38 | 0.60 | 6.52 |
| Democratic Unionist Party | 1 | 170,688 | 1.27 | 1 | 29.83 | 0.42 | 16.58 |
| Social Democratic Labour Party | 1 | 140,622 | 1.05 | 1 | 24.57 | 0.34 | 13.66 |
| Ulster Unionist Party | 1 | 125,169 | 0.93 | 2 | 10.94 | 0.30 | 6.08 |
| Liberal Party | 0 | 1,678,609 | 12.49 | 78 | 13.05 | 4.08 | 4.19 |
| Plaid Cymru | 0 | 83,399 | 0.62 | 4 | 11.75 | 0.20 | 4.04 |
| Independent | 0 | 40,094 | 0.30 | 11 | 2.13 | 0.10 | 0.70 |
| Alliance Party | 0 | 39,026 | 0.29 | 1 | 6.82 | 0.09 | 3.79 |
| Independent Unionist | 0 | 38,198 | 0.28 | 1 | 6.68 | 0.09 | 3.71 |
| Independent Republican | 0 | 33,969 | 0.25 | 1 | 5.94 | 0.08 | 3.30 |
| Ecology Party | 0 | 17,953 | 0.13 | 3 | 3.66 | 0.04 | 1.21 |
| Mebyon Kernow | 0 | 10,205 | 0.08 | 1 | 5.95 | 0.02 | 2.08 |
| UACM | 0 | 9,753 | 0.07 | 2 | 2.39 | 0.02 | 0.90 |
| United Community | 0 | 9,383 | 0.07 | 1 | 1.64 | 0.02 | 0.91 |
| United Labour | 0 | 6,122 | 0.05 | 1 | 1.07 | 0.01 | 0.59 |
| Independent Conservative | 0 | 4,804 | 0.04 | 1 | 3.05 | 0.01 | 0.98 |
| Rep Clubs | 0 | 4,418 | 0.03 | 2 | 0.39 | 0.01 | 0.21 |
| Unionist NI | 0 | 3,712 | 0.03 | 1 | 0.65 | 0.01 | 0.36 |
| Independent Democrat | 0 | 2,473 | 0.02 | 1 | 1.60 | 0.01 | 0.53 |
| Wessex / Ecology | 0 | 1,706 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.83 | 0.00 | 0.31 |
| Intl Marxist | 0 | 1,635 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.93 | 0.00 | 0.31 |
| Centre Right | 0 | 1,196 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.69 | 0.00 | 0.23 |
| Ulster LIB | 0 | 932 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0.09 |
| EFP | 0 | 497 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.31 | 0.00 | 0.10 |