Eastwood (UK Parliament constituency)

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

Eastwood
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	East Renfrewshire
Major settlements	Renfrewshire
1983–2005
Number of members	One
Replaced by	East Renfrewshire

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.

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. However, while this constituency still exists, its boundaries are now different from the East Renfrewshire UK Parliament seat.

Boundaries

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

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[1]	Party
	1983	Allan Stewart	Conservative and Unionist
	1997	Jim Murphy	Labour
2005		constituency renamed: see East Renfrewshire

Elections of 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 R.M. Steele	6,239	12.9	+1.2
	SNP	Stewart Maxwell	4,137	8.6	−4.5
	Scottish Socialist	Peter J. Murray	814	1.7	N/A
	Independent	Dr. Manar Tayan	247	0.5	N/A
Majority			9,141	18.9
Turnout			48,368	70.7	−7.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.3

Elections of 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
	SNP	Douglas A. Yates	6,826	13.1	+0.7
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher M. Mason	6,110	11.7	−4.8
	Referendum Party	David I. Miller	497	1.0	N/A
	ProLife Alliance	Dr. Manar Tayan	393	0.8	N/A
	UKIP	Douglas McPherson	130	0.2	N/A
Majority			3,236	6.2
Turnout			52,252	77.4	−3.6
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	14.4

General Election 1992: Eastwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Allan Stewart	24,124	46.8	+7.3
	Labour	Peter Alexander Grant-Hutchinson	12,436	24.1	−1.0
	Liberal Democrat	Miss Moira Craig	8,493	16.5	−10.7
	SNP	Paul H. Scott	6,372	12.4	+4.2
	Natural Law	Dr. Lee Fergusson	146	0.3	N/A
Majority			11,688	22.7
Turnout			51,571	81.0	+1.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.2

Elections of the 1980s

General Election 1987: Eastwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Allan Stewart	19,388	39.5	−7.0
	Social Democratic	Ralph Mcllroy Leishman	13,374	27.2	−0.4
	Labour	Peter Alexander Grant-Hutchinson	12,305	25.1	+5.0
	SNP	James Alexander May Findlay	4,033	8.2	+2.4
Majority			6,014	12.3
Turnout			49,100	79.4	+6.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	−3.3

General Election 1983: Eastwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Allan Stewart	21,072	46.5	N/A
	Social Democratic	J. Pickett	12,477	27.6	N/A
	Labour	J. McGuire	9,083	20.1	N/A
	SNP	Ms. J. Herriot	2,618	5.8	N/A
Majority			8,595	18.9	N/A
Turnout			45,250	72.6	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)

References

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)