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| | European Parliament Elections 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | The European Parliament was set up in 1975 and until the first direct elections in 1979, the parties sent their own representatives who included Winnie Ewing for the SNP, Russell (now Lord) Johnston for the Liberals and Sir Thomas (Tam) Dalyell for Labour. |
 | | The socialists reached their electoral summit in 1989 when they won the last two Tory seats, North East Scotland and South of Scotland, while in the Highlands and Islands, Winnie Ewing took over half the vote, increasing her majority to almost 45,000, up from under 4,000 in 1979. |
 | | Henry McCubbin, the only British Labour MEP ever to lose a seat, was the first choice of North East Scotland constituency but he was rejected as candidate for the 1998 by-election. |
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