Hamilton South (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Hamilton South Burgh constituency |
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|---|---|
| Created: | 1997 |
| Abolished: | 2005 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Hamilton South is a former constituency in the UK Parliament. Formed in 1997 from the Hamilton constituency, it was abolished in 2005 and parts of the constituency went to make the constituencies of Lanark and Hamilton East and Rutherglen and Hamilton West.
[edit] Results
| General Election 2001: Hamilton South | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Bill Tynan | 15,965 | 59.7 | -5.9 | |
| Scottish National Party | John Wilson | 5,190 | 19.4 | +1.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | John Oswald | 2,388 | 8.9 | +3.8 | |
| Conservative | Neil Richardson | 1,876 | 7.0 | -1.6 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Gena Mitchell | 1,187 | 4.4 | N/A | |
| UK Independence | Janice Murdoch | 151 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 10,775 | 40.3 | |||
| Turnout | 26,757 | 57.3 | -13.7 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Hamilton South by-election, 1999 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Bill Tynan | 7,172 | 36.9 | -28.7 | |
| Scottish National Party | Annabelle Ewing | 6,616 | 34.0 | +16.4 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Shareen Blackall | 1,847 | 9.5 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Charles Ferguson | 1,406 | 7.2 | -1.4 | |
| Independent | Stephen Mungall | 1,075 | 5.5 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Marilyne MacLaren | 634 | 3.3 | -1.9 | |
| ProLife Alliance | Monica Burns | 257 | 1.3 | -0.7 | |
| Socialist Labour | Tom Dewar | 238 | 1.2 | N/A | |
| Scottish Unionist | Jim Reid | 113 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| UK Independence | Alastair McConnachie | 61 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | George Stidolph | 18 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Independent | John Drumond Moray | 17 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 556 | ||||
| Turnout | 25 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Mungall used the description "Hamilton Accies Home, Watson Away", referring to demands by some fans that Hamilton Academicals should play their home matches locally and that Watson, the manager, should go. He was a member of the Socialist Labour Party.
| General Election 1997: Hamilton South | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | George Robertson | 21,709 | 65.6 | N/A | |
| Scottish National Party | Ian Black | 5,831 | 17.6 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Robert Dow Kilgour | 2,858 | 8.6 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Richard Pitts | 1,693 | 5.1 | N/A | |
| ProLife Alliance | Colin Gunn | 684 | 2.1 | N/A | |
| Referendum Party | Stuart Brown | 316 | 1.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 15,878 | ||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] Members of Parliament
- 1997 George Islay Macneill Robertson, later Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, Labour Party
- 1999 Bill Tynan, Labour Party
