Rutherglen and Hamilton West (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 55°48′25″N 4°10′30″W / 55.807°N 4.175°W
Rutherglen and Hamilton West | |
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Burgh constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Rutherglen and Hamilton West in Scotland. | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | South Lanarkshire |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2005 |
Member of parliament | Gerard Killen (Scottish Labour Party) |
Created from | Glasgow Rutherglen and Hamilton South |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | Scotland |
Rutherglen and Hamilton West is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was created for the 2005 general election. It covers almost all of the former constituency of Glasgow Rutherglen and most of the former constituency of Hamilton South, and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. The current MP is Gerard Killen of the Labour Party, who was first elected at the 2017 snap general election.
Boundaries
The Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency covers part of the South Lanarkshire council area. The rest of the council area is covered by the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency, the East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow and the Lanark and Hamilton East constituency. The Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency also covers part of the Dumfries and Galloway council area and part of the South Borders council area.
The terms of the Rutherglen and Hamilton West name refer to the town of Rutherglen and the west of the town of Hamilton.[1]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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2005 | Tommy McAvoy | Scottish Labour and Co-operative | |
2010 | Tom Greatrex | ||
2015 | Margaret Ferrier | Scottish National Party | |
2017 | Gerard Killen | Scottish Labour and Co-operative |
Election results
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour Co-op | Gerard Killen | 19,101 | 37.5 | +2.3 | |
SNP | Margaret Ferrier | 18,836 | 37.0 | -15.5 | |
Conservative | Ann Le Blond | 9,941 | 19.5 | +12.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Robert Brown | 2,158 | 4.2 | +2.4 | |
UKIP | Caroline Santos | 465 | 0.9 | -1.4 | |
Independent | Andy Dixon | 371 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 265 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 50,872 | 63.5 | -5.1 | ||
Labour Co-op gain from SNP | Swing | +8.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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SNP | Margaret Ferrier | 30,279 | 52.6 | +36.5 | |
Labour Co-op | Tom Greatrex | 20,304 | 35.2 | -25.6 | |
Conservative | Taylor Muir | 4,350 | 7.6 | -2.1 | |
UKIP | Janice Mackay[4] | 1,301 | 2.3 | +0.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Tony Hughes | 1,045 | 1.8 | -10.2 | |
CISTA | Yvonne Maclean | 336 | 0.6 | n/a | |
Majority | 9,975 | 17.3 | |||
Turnout | 57,615 | 69.6 | +8.1 | ||
SNP gain from Labour Co-op | Swing | +31.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour Co-op | Tom Greatrex | 28,566 | 60.8 | +5.2 | |
SNP | Graeme Horne | 7,564 | 16.1 | +2.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Ian Robertson | 5,636 | 12.0 | -6.4 | |
Conservative | Malcolm Macaskill | 4,540 | 9.7 | +1.3 | |
UKIP | Janice Murdoch | 675 | 1.4 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 21,002 | 44.7 | +7.5 | ||
Turnout | 46,981 | 61.5 | +3.1 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +1.5 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour Co-op | Tommy McAvoy | 24,054 | 55.6 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Ian Robertson | 7,942 | 18.4 | N/A | |
SNP | Margaret Park | 6,023 | 13.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Peter Crerar | 3,621 | 8.4 | N/A | |
Scottish Socialist | Bill Bonnar | 1,164 | 2.7 | N/A | |
UKIP | Janice Murdoch | 457 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,112 | 37.2 | |||
Turnout | 43,261 | 58.5 | |||
Labour Co-op win (new seat) |
References
- ↑ "UK Parliament constituencies 2005 onwards: Rutherglen and Hamilton West" (PDF). Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ Council, South Lanarkshire. "UK Parliamentary General Election Results South Lanarkshire Council 2015 Elections - South Lanarkshire Council". www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk.
- ↑ "UK Polling Report". ukpollingreport.co.uk.
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "26Aug15".