East Kilbride | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | South Lanarkshire |
Major settlements | East Kilbride |
1974–2005 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Lanark |
Replaced by | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow |
East Kilbride was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster) from 1974 until 2005. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
At the 2005 general election it was merged with part of Clydesdale to form the new constituency of East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow.
The East Kilbride Holyrood constituency, created to be coterminous in 1999, continues in use for elections to the Scottish Parliament.
Boundaries
1974–1983: The burgh of East Kilbride, the fourth district electoral division of Avondale, and the eighth district electoral divisions of Blantyre, High Blantyre, and Stonefield.
1983–1996: East Kilbride District.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | Notes | |
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Feb 1974 | Maurice Miller | Labour | Previously MP for Glasgow Kelvingrove from 1964 | |
1987 | Adam Ingram | Labour | Subsequently, MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow from 2005 | |
2005 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections of the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Maurice Miller | 23,424 | 43.9 | ||
Conservative | Gilmour William Parvin | 15,456 | 29.0 | ||
SNP | Donald Paul MacQuarie | 13,819 | 25.9 | ||
Communist | David McDowell | 693 | 1.3 | ||
Majority | 7,968 | 14.9 | |||
Turnout | 53,392 | 80.8 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Maurice Miller | 21,810 | 41.9 | −2.0 | |
SNP | Gordon Murray | 19,106 | 36.7 | +10.8 | |
Conservative | Gilmour William Parvin | 8,513 | 16.4 | −12.6 | |
Liberal | David Miller | 2,644 | 5.1 | New | |
Majority | 2,704 | 5.2 | −9.7 | ||
Turnout | 52,073 | 79.1 | −1.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Maurice Miller | 31,401 | 53.9 | +12.0 | |
Conservative | William Guthrie Hodgson | 17,128 | 29.4 | +13.0 | |
SNP | Gordon Murray | 9,090 | 15.6 | −21.1 | |
Communist | David McDowell | 658 | 1.1 | New | |
Majority | 14,273 | 24.5 | +19.3 | ||
Turnout | 58,277 | 79.7 | +0.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections of the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Maurice Miller | 17,535 | 37.1 | −7.6 | |
SDP | Denis Sullivan | 13,199 | 27.9 | New | |
Conservative | Richard Scott | 11,483 | 24.3 | −0.5 | |
SNP | David Urquhart | 4,795 | 10.2 | −5.4 | |
Communist | William Doolan | 256 | 0.5 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 4,336 | 9.2 | |||
Turnout | 47,268 | 77.0 | −2.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Adam Ingram | 24,491 | 49.0 | +11.9 | |
SDP | Denis Sullivan | 11,867 | 23.7 | −4.2 | |
Conservative | Paul Walker | 7,344 | 14.7 | −9.6 | |
SNP | James Taggart | 6,275 | 12.6 | +2.4 | |
Majority | 12,624 | 25.3 | +16.1 | ||
Turnout | 43,481 | 79.2 | +2.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +8.0 |
Elections of the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Adam Ingram | 24,055 | 46.9 | −2.1 | |
SNP | Kathleen McAlorum | 12,063 | 23.5 | +10.9 | |
Conservative | Gordon M. Lind | 9,781 | 19.1 | +4.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sandra Grieve | 5,377 | 10.5 | −13.2 | |
Majority | 11,992 | 23.4 | −1.9 | ||
Turnout | 51,276 | 80.0 | +0.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Adam Ingram | 27,584 | 56.5 | +9.6 | |
SNP | George Gebbie | 10,200 | 20.9 | −2.6 | |
Conservative | Clifford Herbertson | 5,863 | 12.0 | +0.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kate Philbrick | 3,527 | 7.2 | −3.3 | |
Prolife Alliance | John A. Deighan | 1,170 | 2.4 | New | |
Referendum | Julie Gray | 306 | 0.6 | New | |
Natural Law | Ewan Gilmour | 146 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 17,384 | 35.6 | +12.2 | ||
Turnout | 48,796 | 74.8 | −5.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections of the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Adam Ingram | 22,205 | 53.3 | −3.2 | |
SNP | Archie Buchanan | 9,450 | 22.7 | +1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ewan Hawthorn | 4,278 | 10.3 | +3.1 | |
Conservative | Margaret McCulloch | 4,238 | 10.2 | −1.8 | |
Scottish Socialist | David Stevenson | 1,519 | 3.6 | New | |
Majority | 12,755 | 30.6 | −5.0 | ||
Turnout | 41,690 | 62.6 | −12.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
References
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.