East Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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| East Renfrewshire County constituency |
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| East Renfrewshire shown within Scotland | |
| Created: | 1885, 2005 |
| MP: | Jim Murphy |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Council areas: | East Renfrewshire |
| EP constituency: | Scotland |
- For other things called Renfrewshire East see Renfrewshire East.
East Renfrewshire (Eastwood 1983 to 2005) is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
From the 1983 general election until the 2005 general election, the constituency was called Eastwood. It is the only constituency in mainland Scotland whose boundaries were unchanged by the 2005 revision of Scottish constituencies.
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[edit] Boundaries and local government areas
As created in 1885 the constituency was one of four covering the area of the the county of Renfrewshire (except the burgh of Renfrew and the burgh of Port Glasgow, which were components of Kilmarnock Burghs until 1918). The four constituencies were: East Renfrewshire, West Renfrewshire, Paisley and Greenock. Greenock was enlarged and renamed Greenock and Port Glasgow in 1974.
The East Renfrewshire constituency acquired new boundaries in 1983, eight years after the creation of local government regions and districts in 1975, and, at the same time, the name of the constituency was changed to Eastwood.
In 1996 the area of the constituency became, also, the East Renfrewshire unitary council area.
In 1999 a Scottish Parliament constituency was created with the name and boundaries of the Westminster constituency.
In 2005 the name of the Westminster constituency was changed back to East Renfrewshire.
[edit] Population and politics
The constituency is on the borders of Glasgow, and is mostly middle-class residential territory for Glasgow. The area was looked on as safely Conservative before Labour gained the seat in 1997.
[edit] Members of Parliament
- 1886 — 1906: Michael Hugh Shaw-Stewart, Conservative
- 1910 — 1918: John Gilmour, Unionist
- 1922 — 1924: Robert Nichol, Labour
- 1924 — 1930: Alexander Munro MacRobert, Unionist
- 1930 — 1940: Marquess of Clydesdale, Unionist
- 1940 — 1959: Guy Lloyd, Unionist
- 1959 — 1979: Betty Harvie Anderson, Unionist/Conservative
- 1979 — 1997: Allan Stewart, Conservative (from 1983, MP for Eastwood)
- 1997 — present: Jim Murphy, Labour (until 2005, MP for Eastwood)
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2005: Renfrewshire East | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Jim Murphy | 20815 | 43.9% | -3.7 | |
| Conservative | Richard Cook | 14158 | 29.9% | +1.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gordon Macdonald | 8659 | 18.3% | +5.4 | |
| Scottish National Party | Osama Bhutta | 3245 | 6.8% | -1.8 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Ian Henderson | 528 | 1.1% | -0.6 | |
| Majority | 6657 | 14.0% | |||
| Turnout | 47405 | 72.1 | +2.3 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -2.4 | |||
| General Election 2001: Eastwood | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Jim Murphy | 23,036 | 47.6 | +7.9 | |
| Conservative | Raymond Robertson | 13,895 | 28.7 | -4.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Allan Steele | 6,239 | 12.9 | +1.2 | |
| Scottish National Party | Stewart Maxwell | 4,137 | 8.6 | -4.5 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Peter Murray | 814 | 1.7 | N/A | |
| Independent (politician) | Manar Tayan | 247 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,141 | 18.9 | |||
| Turnout | 48,368 | 70.8 | -7.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
