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Staffordshire East and Derby (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
Staffordshire East
and Derby
was one of them.
It consisted of the
Westminster Parliament constituencies
of
Burton
,
Cannock and Burntwood
,
Derby North
,
Derby South
,
Mid Staffordshire
,
South Derbyshire
, and
South East Staffordshire
.
MEPs