Eastwood (UK Parliament constituency)

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For the Scottish Parliament constituency, see Eastwood (Scottish Parliament constituency).

Eastwood County constituency
Created:	1983
Abolished:	2005
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	One

Eastwood was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

1 History
2 Boundaries
3 Members of Parliament
4 Election results
5 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, when it partially replaced the former East Renfrewshire constituency, following changes in 1975 to local government boundaries.

The East Renfrewshire constituency was re-established for the 2005 general election, with the same boundaries as the Eastwood constituency. Despite the change of name, it is the only constituency in mainland Scotland whose boundaries were unchanged by the 2005 revision of Scottish constituencies.

In 1999, an Eastwood Scottish Parliament constituency was created with the name and boundaries of the Eastwood Westminster constituency.

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency lay to the south of Glasgow and included Clarkston, Newton Mearns, Eaglesham, Barrhead and Neilston.

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Allan Stewart	Conservative and Unionist
	1997	Jim Murphy	Labour
2005		constituency renamed: see East Renfrewshire

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

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[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Eastwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Murphy	20,766	39.7	+15.6
	Conservative	Paul Cullen	17,530	33.5	−13.2
	Scottish National Party	Douglas Yates	6,826	13.1	+0.7
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher Mason	6,110	11.7	−4.78
	Referendum Party	David Miller	497	1.0	N/A
	ProLife Alliance	Manar Tayan	393	0.8	N/A
	UK Independence	Douglas McPherson	130	0.2	N/A
Majority			3,236	6.2	N/A
Turnout			52,252	77.4	−3.6
	Labour hold		Swing	14.4

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Eastwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Murphy	23,036	47.6	+7.9
	Conservative	Raymond Robertson	13,895	28.7	-4.8
	Liberal Democrat	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	Manar Tayan	247	0.5	N/A
Majority			9,141	18.9
Turnout			48,368	70.7	-7.6
	Labour hold		Swing	6.3% from Conservative to Labour