East Kilbride (Scottish Parliament constituency)
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| East Kilbride shown within the Central Scotland electoral region |
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| Created: | 1999 |
| MSP: | Andy Kerr |
| Party: | Labour |
| Council area: | South Lanarkshire |
East Kilbride is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of ten constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
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[edit] Electoral region
The other nine constituencies of the South of Scotland region are Airdrie and Shotts, Coatbridge and Chryston, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Falkirk East, Falkirk West, Hamilton North and Bellshill, Hamilton South, Kilmarnock and Loudoun and Motherwell and Wishaw.
The region covers all of the Falkirk council area, all of the North Lanarkshire council area, part of the South Lanarkshire council area, part of the East Ayrshire council area and a small part of the East Dumbartonshire council area.
[edit] Constituency boundaries and council area
The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster (House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies[1].
The Holyrood constituency is one of five covering the South Lanarkshire council area, the others being Hamilton North and Bellshill and Hamilton South, which are within the Central Scotland region, Glasgow Rutherglen, within the Glasgow region, and Clydesdale, within the South of Scotland region.
Three of the five constituencies are entirely within the South Lanarkshire area. Glasgow Rutherglen straddles the boundary with the Glasgow City council area, which is entirely within the Glasgow electoral region, and Hamilton North and Bellshill straddles the boundary with the North Lanarkshire council area, which is entirely within the Central Scotland region.
The East Kilbride constituency has boundaries with the Glasgow Rutherglen and Hamilton South constituencies to the north and the Clydesdale constituency to the east.
[edit] Member of the Scottish Parliament
The constituency is currently represented by Labour MSP Andy Kerr.
[edit] Election results
| Scottish parliamentary election, 2003: East Kilbride | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Andy Kerr | 13,825 | 40.56 | -7.59 | |
| Scottish National Party | Linda Fabiani MSP | 8,544 | 25.07 | -7.42 | |
| Conservative | Grace Campbell | 3,785 | 11.10 | -0.14 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Carolyn Leckie | 2,736 | 8.03 | +8.03 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alex McKie | 2,181 | 6.40 | -1.73 | |
| Majority | 5,281 | 15.49 | -0.17 | ||
| Turnout | 34,087 | 52.06 | -10.73 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Scottish parliamentary election, 1999: East Kilbride | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Andy Kerr | 19,987 | 48.38 | -8.15 | |
| Scottish National Party | Linda Fabiani | 13,488 | 32.65 | +11.75 | |
| Conservative | Craig Stevenson | 4,465 | 10.81 | -1.21 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ewan Hawthorn | 3,373 | 8.16 | +0.93 | |
| Majority | 6,499 | 15.73 | -19.90 | ||
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| Labour hold | Swing | N/A | |||
