Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Scottish Parliament constituency)
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| Kilmarnock and Loudoun Scottish Parliament county constituency |
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| Kilmarnock and Loudoun shown within the Central Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland |
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| Created: | 1999 |
| MSP: | Willie Coffey |
| Party: | Scottish National Party |
| Council area: | East Ayrshire (part) |
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 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
The other nine constituencies of the South of Scotland region are Airdrie and Shotts, Coatbridge and Chryston, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, East Kilbride, Falkirk East, Hamilton North and Bellshill, Hamilton South, Falkirk West 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 (House of Commons) constituency[1]. The Westminster constituency was created during the period of local government regions and districts, 1975 to 1996, when there was a Kilmarnock and Loudoun district of the Strathclyde region. In 1996 regions and districts were replaced with unitary council areas. Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies in 2005[2].
The Holyrood constituency covers a northern portion of the East Ayrshire council area. The rest of the East Ayrshire area is covered by Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, which also covers a southern portion of the South Ayrshire council area. Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley is within the South of Scotland electoral region.
[edit] Description of the counstituency
The constituency includes the towns and villages of Darvel, Galston, Hurlford, Kilmarnock, Kilmaurs, Newmilns and Greenholm and Stewarton.
[edit] Member of the Scottish Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1999 | Margaret Jamieson | Labour | |
| 2003 | |||
| 2007 | Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | |
[edit] Election results
| Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Kilmarnock and Loudoun | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Scottish National Party | Willie Coffey | 14,297 | 42.8 | +6.6 | |
| Labour | Margaret Jamieson | 12,955 | 38.8 | -1.4 | |
| Conservative | Janette McAlpine | 4,127 | 12.3 | +1.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ron Aitken | 2,056 | 6.2 | +1.2 | |
| Majority | 1,342 | 4.0 | |||
| Turnout | 33,435 | 55.0 | +3.4 | ||
| Scottish National Party gain from Labour | Swing | +4 | |||
| Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Kilmarnock and Loudoun | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Margaret Jamieson | 12,633 | 40.1 | -4.0 | |
| Scottish National Party | Daniel Coffey | 11,423 | 36.3 | -0.8 | |
| Conservative | Robin Traquair | 3296 | 10.5 | -1.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ian Gibson | 1571 | 5.0 | -2.2 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Colin Rutherford | 1421 | 4.5 | n/a | |
| Independent | May Anderson | 404 | 1.3 | n/a | |
| Independent | Matthew Donnelly | 402 | 1.3 | n/a | |
| Scottish People's Alliance | Lyndsay McIntosh | 371 | 1.2 | n/a | |
| Majority | 1,210 | 3.84 | |||
| Turnout | 31,520 | 51.63 | -3.17 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -1.6 | |||
| Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Kilmarnock and Loudoun | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Margaret Jamieson | 17,345 | 44.08 | ||
| Scottish National Party | Alex Neil | 14,585 | 37.07 | ||
| Conservative | Lyndsay McIntosh | 4,589 | 11.66 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | John Stewart | 2,830 | 7.19 | ||
| Majority | 2,760 | 7.01 | |||
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| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ See Kilmarnock and Loudoun (UK Parliament constituency).
- ^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland.
