Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock (UK Parliament constituency)

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Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
County constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock shown within Scotland
Created: 2005
MP: Sandra Osborne
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
Council areas: East Ayrshire/South Ayrshire
EP constituency: Scotland

Ayr, Carrick, and Cumnock is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election from parts of the old Ayr and Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituencies.

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[edit] Boundaries

Approximately two-thirds of the former Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituency was attached to a third of the marginal Ayr seat to form this new Westminster constituency. Ayr is a muddled mix of council estates and affluent middle-class areas. Added to the town is an expanse of former mining villages all loyal to socialist values. The rural parts of Carrick and the coastal areas have supported Conservative candidates in local elections.

[edit] Members of Parliament

2005present: Sandra Osborne, (Labour)

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Ayr, Carrick, and Cumnock
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sandra Osborne 20,433 45.4%
Conservative Mark Jones 10,436 23.2%
Liberal Democrats Colin Waugh 6,341 14.1%
Scottish National Party Charles Brodie 5,932 13.2%
Scottish Senior Citizens Donald Sharp 592 1.3%
Scottish Socialist Murray Steele 554 1.2%
Socialist Labour James McDaid 395 0.9%
UKIP Bryan McCormack 365 0.8%
Majority 9,997 22.2%
Turnout 45,048
Labour hold Swing

This constituency was formed in 2005 from parts of Ayr and Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituencies. The results from both constituencies in the last general election are listed below.

General Election 2001: Ayr
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sandra Osborne 16,801 43.6 -4.9
Conservative Phil Gallie 14,256 37.0 +3.2
Scottish National Party Jim Mather 4,621 12.0 -0.6
Liberal Democrats Stuart Richie 2,089 5.4 +0.7
Scottish Socialist James Stewart 692 1.8 N/A
UKIP Joseph Smith 101 0.3 N/A
Majority 2,545 6.6
Turnout 38,560 69.3 -10.7
Labour hold Swing
General Election 2001: Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Foulkes (politician) 22,174 55.3 -4.5
Conservative Gordon Millar 7,318 18.2 +1.3
Scottish National Party Tom Wilson 6,258 15.6 -1.1
Liberal Democrats Amy Rodger 2,932 7.3 +2.0
Scottish Socialist Amanda McFarlane 1,058 2.6 N/A
Socialist Labour James McDaid 367 0.9 N/A
Majority 14,856 37.1
Turnout 40,107 61.8 -13.2
Labour hold Swing

[edit] See also

UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland
Labour

Aberdeen North | Aberdeen South | Airdrie and Shotts | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Central Ayrshire | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Dumfries and Galloway | Dundee West | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | East Lothian | East Renfrewshire | Edinburgh East | Edinburgh North and Leith | Edinburgh South | Edinburgh South West | Falkirk | Glasgow Central | Glasgow East | Glasgow North | Glasgow North West | Glasgow South | Glasgow South West | Glenrothes | Inverclyde | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Lanark and Hamilton East | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Livingston | Midlothian | Motherwell and Wishaw | North Ayrshire and Arran | Ochil and South Perthshire | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Stirling | West Dunbartonshire

Liberal Democrat

Argyll and Bute | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | Dunfermline and West Fife | East Dunbartonshire | Edinburgh West | Gordon | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | North East Fife | Orkney and Shetland | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

SNP

Angus | Banff and Buchan | Dundee East | Moray | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | Perth and North Perthshire

Conservative and Unionist

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

Speaker

Glasgow North East

Scotland European constituency: Labour (2) | SNP (2) | Conservative and Unionist (2) | Liberal Democrats (1)