Ochil | |
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Former County constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
1997–2005 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Ochil & South Perthshire Stirling |
Created from | Clackmannan |
Ochil was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1997 until 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP by the first-past-the-post voting system.
It replaced the former constituency of Clackmannan. In 2005 it was mostly merged into the new constituency of Ochil and South Perthshire. A western portion was merged into Stirling.
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The constituency included Alloa, Clackmannan, Tillicoultry, Dollar and Kinross. It covered Clackmannanshire and small portions of Stirlingshire and Perth and Kinross.
Elected!Member[1] | Party | ||
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1997 | Martin O'Neill | Labour | |
2005 | constituency abolished |
General Election 2001: Ochil[2] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Martin O'Neill | 16,004 | 45.3 | ||
SNP | Keith Brown | 10,655 | 30.2 | ||
Conservative | Alasdair Campbell | 4,235 | 12.0 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Paul Edie | 3,253 | 9.2 | ||
Scottish Socialist | Pauline Thomson | 751 | 2.1 | ||
Monster Raving Loony | Flash Gordon Approaching | 405 | 1.1 | ||
Majority | 5,349 | 15.2 | |||
Turnout | 35,303 | 61.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.3 |
General Election 1997: Ochil[3] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Martin O'Neill | 19,707 | 45.01 | ||
SNP | G Reid | 15,055 | 34.38 | ||
Conservative | A Hogarth | 6,383 | 14.58 | ||
Liberal Democrat | A Watters | 2,262 | 5.17 | ||
Referendum Party | D White | 210 | 0.48 | ||
Independent | I Macdonald | 104 | 0.24 | ||
Natural Law | M Sullivan | 65 | 0.15 | ||
Majority | 4,652 | 10.64 | |||
Turnout | 43,786 | 77.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | −3.2 |