European Parliamentary Elections

'The easiest way to describe the difference between the work of European and Westminster politicians is that Westminster members sometimes make silly laws and European M.P.s stop silly laws being written.' Conservative South of Scotland MEP Alasdair Hutton in the East Lothian Courier 1979.

South of Scotland

7 June 1979

Logo	Party	Candidate	Vote	%	% change
	Conservative & Unionist	Alasdair Hutton	66,816	42.97 %
	Labour	Noel Foy	43,145	27.75 %
	Scottish National Party	Professor Iain MacGibbon	28,694	18.46 %
	Liberal	Jim Wallace	16,825	10.82 %
	Conservative & Unionist win	Conservative & Unionist majority	23,671	15.22 %

14 June 1984

Logo	Party	Candidate	Vote	%	% change
	Conservative & Unionist	Alasdair Hutton MEP	60,843	37.01 %	- 5.96 %
	Labour	Robin Stewart	57,706	35.10 %	+ 7.35 %
	Liberal/Alliance	Elspeth Buchanan	23,598	14.35 %	+ 3.53 %
	Scottish National Party	Ian Goldie	22,242	13.53 %	- 4.93 %
	Conservative & Unionist hold	Conservative & Unionist majority	3,137	1.91 %	- 13.31 %

15 June 1989

Logo	Party	Candidate	Vote	%	% change
	Labour	Alex Smith	81,366	39.84 %	+ 4.74 %
	Conservative & Unionist	Aladair Hutton MEP	65,673	32.16 %	- 4.85 %
	Scottish National Party	Matt Brown	35,155	17.21 %	+ 3.68 %
	Green	John Button	11,658	5.71 %	(+ 5.71 %)
	Democrat	John McKerchar	10,368	5.08 %	- 9.27 %
	Labour gain from Conservative & Unionist	Labour majority	15,696	7.69 %

9 June 1994

Logo	Party	Candidate	Vote	%	% change
	Labour	Alex Smith MEP	90,700	45.15 %	+ 5.31 %
	Conservative & Unionist	Alasdair Hutton	45,595	22.69 %	- 9.47 %
	Scottish National Party	Christine Creech	45,032	22.41 %	+ 5.20 %
	Liberal Democrat	D. Millar	13,363	6.65 %	+ 1.57 %
	Liberal	J. Hein	3,249	1.62 %	(+ 1.62 %)
	Green	L. Hendry	2,429	1.21 %	- 4.50 %
	Natural Law Party	G. Gay	539	0.27 %	(+ 0.27 %)
	Labour hold	Labour majority	44,905	22.35 %	+ 14.66 %