Northern Ireland (European Parliament constituency)

Northern Ireland
European Parliament constituency
Location among the 2014 constituencies
Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
MEPs	3 (1979 - present)
Sources
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Northern Ireland is a constituency of the European Parliament. Since 1979, it has elected three MEPs using the Single Transferable Vote, making it the only constituency in the United Kingdom to not use party list proportional representation.

The constituency covers the entirety of Northern Ireland, a constituent country of the United Kingdom.

Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.

Ten candidates stood in the election.

Gilliland's candidacy was supported by Alliance, Workers' Party, Labour and others.

Langhammer appeared on the ballot as the 'Labour Representation' candidate – the Campaign for Labour Representation aimed to persuade the British Labour Party to organise in Northern Ireland.

Caul appeared on the ballot as the candidate of Labour '87, a merger of the Labour Party of Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Labour Party, Ulster Liberal Party and United Labour Party.

Bleakley appeared on the ballot paper with the description 'United Community'.