european parliament election, 1994 (uk)

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The European Parliament Election, 1994 was the fourth European election to be held in the United Kingdom. It was held on 5 June. The electoral system was First Past the Post in England, Scotland and Wales and Single Transferable Vote in Northern Ireland. This was the first election with 87 MEPs, the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993 had increased the number of seats for the UK from 81. For the time, the UK did not get the lowest turnout in Europe. This was the first European election the UK Independence Party competed in and the first European election the Liberal Democrats won seats. The Conservatives performance in the election was very poor, losing a further 14 seats, taking their number of seats down to 18, which was 42 less seats than in the 1979 election, the year they defeated the Labour Government in the 1979 General Election. The Green Party was unable to build on its highly successful performance of the previous election, losing more than 3/4 of its votes.

Overall (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) turnout: 36.8% (EU average: 57%)
Overall votes cast: 15,852,589

England, Scotland and Wales

Party	Votes	Seats	Loss/Gain	Share of Vote (%)
Labour	align="right" \| 6,753,881	align="center" \| 62	align="center" \| +17	align="center" \| 44
Conservative	align="right" \| 4,268,539	align="center" \| 18	align="center" \| -13	align="center" \| 28
Liberal Democrat	align="right" \| 2,557,887	align="center" \| 2	align="center" \| +2	align="center" \| 17
Green Party	align="right" \| 494,561	align="center" \| 0	align="center" \| 0	align="center" \| 3
Scottish National Party	align="right" \| 487,237	align="center" \| 2	align="center" \| +1	align="center" \| 3
Plaid Cymru	align="right" \| 162,472	align="center" \| 0	align="center" \| 0	align="center" \| 1
UK Independence Party	align="right" \| 150,251	align="center" \| 0	align="center" \| 0	align="center" \| 1
Liberal Party	align="right" \| 100,500	align="center" \| 0	align="center" \| 0	align="center" \| 1
Natural Law Party	align="right" \| 96,554	align="center" \| 0	align="center" \| 0	align="center" \| 1
Others	align="right" \| 220,834	align="center" \| 0	align="center" \| 0	align="center" \| 1

Total votes cast - 15,292,722

rowspan="2" \| Party	rowspan="2" \| Seats	rowspan="2" \| Loss/Gain	colspan="3" \| First Preference Votes
Number	% of vote
align="left" \| Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)	1	0	163,246	29
align="left" \| Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)	1	0	161,992	29
align="left" \| Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)	1	0	133,459	24
align="left" \| Sinn Fein (SF)	0	0	55,215	10
align="left" \| Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)	0	0	23,157	4
align="left" \| Ulster Independence Movement	0	0	7,858	1
align="left" \| Conservative	0	0	5,583	1
align="left" \| Workers Party	0	0	2,543	<1
align="left" \| Natural Law Party	0	0	2,291	<1
align="left" \| Others	0	0	4,523	1

Total votes cast - 559,867