Livingston (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 55°53′38″N 3°31′01″W / 55.894°N 3.517°W / 55.894; -3.517

Not to be confused with Livingston (Scottish Parliament constituency).

Livingston
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Livingston in Scotland.
Subdivisions of Scotland	West Lothian
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Hannah Bardell (SNP)
Created from	Midlothian West Lothian
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Scotland

Livingston is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, to which it returns one Member of Parliament (MP). Elections are held using the first-past-the-post voting system.

It was formed from parts of traditional Midlothian and West Lothian for the 1983 general election. A similar constituency, also called Livingston, was used by the Scottish Parliament until 2011. In 2005 a small part of the Linlithgow constituency was moved into Livingston.

Boundaries

1983-1997: The West Lothian District electoral divisions of Broxburn, Calders, Livingston North, and Livingston South; and the City of Edinburgh District ward of Kirkliston.

1997-2005: The West Lothian District electoral divisions of Broxburn/Uphall, Craigshill/Ladywell, Deans/Knightsridge, Dedridge/West Calder, and Murieston/East Calder.

2005-present: The area of the West Lothian Council other than that part in the Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency.

The constituency covers the eastern portion of the West Lothian council area, and is dominated by Livingston. It is bordered by the constituencies of Edinburgh West, Edinburgh South West, Dumfriesshire, Lanark and Hamilton East, Airdrie and Shotts, and Linlithgow and East Falkirk.

Members of Parliament

The Member of Parliament for this seat had been Robin Cook of the Labour Party since its creation in 1983. Following his death on 6 August 2005 a by-election was held on 29 September, and Jim Devine was elected. On 8 February 2010 Devine was suspended from the Labour party after he was charged with a criminal offence in relation to his parliamentary expenses. He was succeeded in 2010 by Labour's Graeme Morrice. Morrice was defeated by Hannah Bardell of the Scottish National Party (SNP) five years later.

	Member^[1]	Party	Notes
1983	Robin Cook	Labour	Foreign Secretary 1997–2001, Leader of the House of Commons 2001-03
2005 by-election	Jim Devine	Labour	barred from standing at the 2010 general election by the Labour Party's National Executive Committee^[2]
2010	Graeme Morrice	Labour
2015	Hannah Bardell	SNP

Election results

General election results 1983–2010

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Livingston^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Hannah Bardell	32,736	56.9	+31.0
	Labour	Graeme Morrice^[5]	15,893	27.6	-20.8
	Conservative	Chris Donnelly	5,929	10.3	-0.5
	UKIP	Nathan Somerville^[6]	1,757	3.1	+2.1
	Liberal Democrat	Charles Dundas^[7]	1,232	2.1	-9.0
Majority			16,843	29.3
Turnout			57,547	69.9	+6.8
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing	+25.9

General Election 2010: Livingston^[8]^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Graeme Morrice	23,215	48.5	−2.6
	SNP	Lis Bardell	12,424	25.9	+4.4
	Liberal Democrat	Charles Dundas	5,316	11.1	−4.3
	Conservative	Alison Adamson-Ross	5,158	10.8	+0.6
	BNP	David Orr	960	2.0	N/A
	UKIP	Alistair Forrest	443	0.9	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	Ally Hendry	242	0.5	−1.3
	Independent	Jim Slavin	149	0.3	N/A
Majority			10,791	22.5
Turnout			47,907	63.1	+4.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

By-election 2005: Livingston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Devine	12,319	41.8	−9.3
	SNP	Angela Constance	9,639	32.7	+11.1
	Liberal Democrat	Charles Dundas	4,362	14.8	−0.6
	Conservative	Gordon Lindhurst	1,993	6.7	−3.4
	Scottish Green	David Robertson	529	1.8	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	Steven Nimmo	407	1.4	−0.4
	UKIP	Peter Adams	108	0.4	N/A
	Independent	Melville Brown	55	0.2	N/A
	Alliance for Change	John William Allman	33	0.1	N/A
	Socialist (GB)	Brian Gardner	32	0.1	N/A
Majority			2,680	9.1
Turnout			29,477	38.6	−19.5
	Labour hold		Swing	−10.2

General Election 2005: Livingston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robin Cook	22,657	51.1	−4.1
	SNP	Angela Constance	9,560	21.6	−1.7
	Liberal Democrat	Charles Dundas	6,832	15.4	+5.5
	Conservative	Alison Ross	4,499	10.1	+2.5
	Scottish Socialist	Steven Nimmo	789	1.8	−1.2
Majority			13,097	29.5
Turnout			44,337	58.1	+2.0
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.2

General Election 2001: Livingston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robin Cook	19,108	53.0	−1.9
	SNP	Graham Sutherland	8,492	23.6	−3.9
	Liberal Democrat	Gordon Mackenzie	3,969	11.0	+4.3
	Conservative	Ian Mowat	2,995	8.3	−1.1
	Scottish Socialist	Wendy Milne	1,110	3.1	N/A
	UKIP	Robert Kingdon	359	1.0	N/A
Majority			10,616	29.4
Turnout			36,033	55.6	-15.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Livingston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robin Cook	23,510	54.9	+10.5
	SNP	Peter Johnston	11,763	27.5	+0.9
	Conservative	Hugh Craigie Halkett	4,028	9.4	−10.0
	Liberal Democrat	Ewan Hawthorn	2,876	6.7	−1.9
	Referendum	Helen Campbell	444	1.0	N/A
	Socialist (GB)	Matt Culbert	213	0.5	N/A
Majority			11,747	27.4
Turnout			42,834	71.0
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Livingston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robin Cook	20,245	44.4	−1.2
	SNP	Peter J.B. Johnston	12,140	26.6	+10.0
	Conservative	Hugh Hunter Gordon	8,824	19.4	+0.7
	Liberal Democrat	Fred Mackintosh	3,911	8.6	−10.5
	Scottish Green	Alpin G. Ross-Smith	469	1.0	N/A
Majority			8,105	17.8
Turnout			45,589	74.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Livingston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robin Cook	19,110	45.6	+7.9
	Liberal	Robert Anderson McCreadle	8,005	19.1	−5.5
	Conservative	Mark Nicholson Alexander Mayall	7,860	18.7	−5.5
	SNP	Kenny MacAskill	6,969	16.6	+3.1
Majority			11,105	26.5
Turnout			41,944	74.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Livingston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robin Cook	14,255	37.7	N/A
	Liberal	A. Henderson	9,304	24.6	N/A
	Conservative	J. Campbell	9,129	24.2	N/A
	SNP	Kenny MacAskill	5,090	13.5	N/A
Majority			4,951	13.1	N/A
Turnout			37,778	70.9	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

References

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 3)
↑ Expenses row MP dropped by Labour "Expenses row MP dropped by Labour" Check |url= value (help). BBC News. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/media/8666/GE-2015-Results-Livingston/pdf/GE_2015_Results_Livingston.pdf 9Aug15
↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/livingston-2015.html
↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/livingston/
↑ "list_of_selected_candidates". Retrieved 7 March 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/843.stm

External links

Election result, by-election 2005
Election result, 2005 (BBC)
Election results, 1997 - 2001 (BBC)
Election results, 1992 - 2005 (Guardian)
Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources (1983 and 1987 results)

Constituencies in Scotland by Holding Party (59)

Scottish National Party (54)	Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Airdrie and Shotts Angus Argyll and Bute Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock Banff and Buchan Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Central Ayrshire Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East Dumfries and Galloway Dundee East Dundee West Dunfermline and West Fife East Dunbartonshire East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh East Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh South West Falkirk Glasgow Central Glasgow North Glasgow North East Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West Glenrothes Gordon Inverclyde Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Kilmarnock and Loudoun Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath Lanark and Hamilton East Linlithgow and East Falkirk Livingston Midlothian Moray Motherwell and Wishaw Na h-Eileanan an Iar North Ayrshire and Arran North East Fife Ochil and South Perthshire Paisley and Renfrewshire North Paisley and Renfrewshire South Perth and North Perthshire Ross, Skye and Lochaber Rutherglen and Hamilton West Stirling West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine West Dunbartonshire

Labour (1)	Edinburgh South

Conservative (1)	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

Liberal Democrat (1)	Orkney and Shetland

Independent (2)	Edinburgh West Glasgow East

Scotland European constituency: Scottish National Party (2) Labour (2) Conservative (1) UKIP (1)

Westminster constituencies of Scotland

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Current constituencies (2005 to present)

Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Airdrie & Shotts Angus Argyll & Bute Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock Banff & Buchan Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross Central Ayrshire Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East Dumfries & Galloway Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale Dundee East Dundee West Dunfermline & West Fife East Dunbartonshire East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh East Edinburgh North & Leith Edinburgh South Edinburgh South West Edinburgh West Falkirk Glasgow Central Glasgow East Glasgow North Glasgow North East Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West Glenrothes Gordon Inverclyde Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey Kilmarnock & Loudoun Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath Lanark & Hamilton East Linlithgow & East Falkirk Livingston Midlothian Moray Motherwell & Wishaw Na h-Eileanan an Iar North Ayrshire & Arran North East Fife Ochil & South Perthshire Orkney & Shetland Paisley & Renfrewshire North Paisley & Renfrewshire South Perth & North Perthshire Ross, Skye & Lochaber Rutherglen & Hamilton West Stirling West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine West Dunbartonshire

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