| Cambridge and Bedfordshire North European Parliament constituency |
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| Created | 1984 |
| Dissolved | 1994 |
| MEP(s) | 1 |
| Member State | United Kingdom |
| Source(s) | [1] |
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. In six European Union Member States ( Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom) the national The European Parliament ( Europarl or EP) is the only directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU A Member of the European Parliament ( English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Union 's legislative body the European Parliament. A Member State of the European Union is any one of the twenty-seven sovereign Nation states that have acceded the European Union (EU since its De facto The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Proportional representation (sometimes referred to as full representation or PR is a category of electoral formula aiming at a close match between the percentage of votes The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The plurality voting system is a Single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on single-member Elections in the European Union take place every five years by universal adult suffrage. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. 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. In six European Union Member States ( Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom) the national A Member of the European Parliament ( English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Union 's legislative body the European Parliament.
The constituency of Cambridge and Bedfordshire North was one of them.
When it was created in England in 1984, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Mid Bedfordshire, North Bedfordshire, North East Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, South East Cambridgeshire, South West Cambridgeshire,[1] although this may not have been true for the whole of its existence. This is a list of the 646 constituencies currently represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as at the 2005 general election
References
- ^ David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results. Retrieved on 2008-01-20. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome.