HC Deb 20 January 1982 vol 16 c131W
Viscount Cranborne

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report a list of those parliamentary, other national and local elections held within the United Kingdom since 1945 for which a method of election other than "first-past-the-post" was in effect.

Mr. Mayhew

The information requested is as follows1945–50—parliamentary elections for the constituencies of Cambridge University, Combined English Universities, Oxford University, and Combined Scottish Universities; 1973—elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly; since 1973—local government elections in Northern Ireland; 1975—elections to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention; since 1979—European Parliament elections in Northern Ireland. In each case, the election was by single transferable vote.