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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.
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The constituency covers the entirety of Northern Ireland, a constituent country of the United Kingdom.
Members of the European Parliament
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.
2014
Ten candidates stood in the election.
2004
Gilliland's candidacy was supported by Alliance, Workers' Party, Labour and others.
1994
1989
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.
1979
Bleakley appeared on the ballot paper with the description 'United Community'.
Devlin was the candidate of the United Labour Party and appeared on the ballot as such.