East Kilbride (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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East Kilbride
Scottish Parliament county constituency
East Kilbride shown within the
Central Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
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

See also Central Scotland Scottish Parliament 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

Election Member Party
1999 Andy Kerr Labour
2003
2007

[edit] Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: East Kilbride
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Andy Kerr 15,334 42.7 +2.1
Scottish National Party Linda Fabiani 13,362 37.2 +12.1
Conservative Graham Simpson 4,115 11.5 +0.4
Liberal Democrats Dave Clark 3,092 8.6 +2.2
Majority 1,972 5.5
Turnout 35,903 53.6 +1.6
Labour hold Swing
Scottish Parliament election, 2003: East Kilbride
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Andy Kerr 13,825 40.56 -7.59
Scottish National Party Linda Fabiani 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 Parliament election, 1999: East Kilbride
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
Turnout
Labour hold Swing N/A

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland


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