title: Tyne South and Wear (European Parliament constituency)
text: # Tyne South and Wear (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 Tyne South and Wear was one of them.
  
  It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1974 boundaries) of Blaydon, Gateshead East, Gateshead West, Jarrow, South Shields, Sunderland North, Sunderland South, and Tynemouth.
  
  ## Member of the European Parliament
  
  | Elected | Name | Party | Party |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1979 | Joyce Quin | | Labour |
  | 1984 | Constituency abolished | Constituency abolished | Constituency abolished |
  
  ## Results
  
  European Parliament election, 1979: Tyne South and Wear :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Labour | Joyce Quin | 73,936 | 49.2 | |
  | | Conservative | J. Landau | 67,475 | 44.9 | |
  | | Liberal | Peter Freitag | 8,958 | 5.9 | |
  | Majority | Majority | Majority | 6,461 | 4.3 | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 150,369 | 29.8 | |
  | | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |
  