West Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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| West Dunbartonshire County constituency |
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| West Dunbartonshire shown within Scotland | |
| Created: | 1950, 2005 |
| MP: | John McFall |
| Party: | Labour Co-operative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Council areas: | West Dunbartonshire |
| EP constituency: | Scotland |
West Dunbartonshire 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 Dumbarton, and Clydebank and Milngavie constituencies.
A constituency of the same name existed from 1950 until 1983, details of which can be found at Dunbartonshire West.
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[edit] Boundaries
This new seat is formed from a half-and-half merging of Dumbarton and Clydebank and Milngavie.
This seat branches out from a segment of Clydebank to into Dumbarton and out to the eastern shore of Loch Lomond. It has identical boundaries to the West Dunbartonshire council area. As well as Clydebank and Dumbarton, the seat's other large population centre is Alexandria.
[edit] Members of Parliament
Dumbarton was represented by John McFall since 1987.
- 1987 – present: John McFall, Labour Co-operative
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2005: Dunbartonshire West | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour Co-op | John McFall | 21600 | 51.9% | -11.6 | |
| Scottish National Party | Tom Chalmers | 9047 | 21.8% | -2.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Niall Walker | 5999 | 14.4% | +12.0 | |
| Conservative | Campbell Murdoch | 2679 | 6.4% | +1.4 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Les Robertson | 1708 | 4.1% | -0.9 | |
| UKIP | Bryan Maher | 354 | 0.9% | +0.9 | |
| Christian Vote | Marlon Dawson | 202 | 0.5% | +0.5 | |
| Majority | 12553 | 30.2% | |||
| Turnout | 41589 | 61.3 | -2.9 | ||
| Labour Co-op hold | Swing | -4.7 | |||
This constituency was formed in 2005 from parts of the old Dumbarton, and Clydebank and Milngavie constituencies. The results of these constituencies in the last general election are listed below.
| General Election 2001: Dumbarton | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour Co-op | John McFall | 16,151 | 47.5 | -2.1 | |
| Scottish National Party | Iain Robertson | 6,576 | 19.3 | -3.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Eric Thompson | 5,265 | 15.5 | +7.9 | |
| Conservative | Peter Ramsay | 4,648 | 13.7 | -4.0 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Les Robertson | 1,354 | 4.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,575 | 28.2 | |||
| Turnout | 33,994 | 61.1 | -12.3 | ||
| Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 2001: Clydebank and Milngavie | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Tony Worthington | 17,249 | 53.1 | -2.1 | |
| Scottish National Party | Jim Yuill | 6,525 | 20.1 | -1.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Rodney Ackland | 3,909 | 12.0 | +1.6 | |
| Conservative | Kate Pickering Jardine | 3,514 | 10.8 | -1.7 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Dawn Brennan | 1,294 | 4.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 10,724 | 33.0 | |||
| Turnout | 32,491 | 62.5 | -12.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
