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Birmingham West (European Parliament constituency)
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
. 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.
The constituency of
Birmingham
West
was one of them.
It consisted of the
Westminster Parliament constituencies
of
Aldridge-Brownhills
,
Birmingham Ladywood
,
Birmingham Perry Barr
,
Sutton Coldfield
,
Walsall North
,
Walsall South
,
West Bromwich East
, and
West Bromwich West
.
Elections