East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | South Lanarkshire |
Major settlements | East Kilbride, Strathaven, Lesmahagow |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2005 |
Member of Parliament | Lisa Cameron (Conservative) |
Created from | East Kilbride Clydesdale |
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was first used in the general election of 2005. It replaced East Kilbride and some of Clydesdale, and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to boundary changes which will include the loss of Lesmahagow. As a consequence, it will be renamed East Kilbride and Strathaven , to be first contested at the next general election. [1]
As created by the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, the constituency covers part of the South Lanarkshire council area. The rest of the council area is covered by the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, Lanark and Hamilton East, and Rutherglen and Hamilton West. constituencies. (the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency also covers part of the Dumfries and Galloway council area and part of the Scottish Borders council area).
The terms of the East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow name refer to the towns of East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow. However, the constituency also includes the settlements of Auldhouse, Blackwood, Caldermill, Chapelton, Drumclog, Glassford, Kirkmuirhill, Jackton, Nerston, Stonehouse and Thorntonhall.
The following electoral wards form the constituency:
Until the SNP landslide at the 2015 election, the constituency, and its predecessors East Kilbride, Lanark, and Clydesdale, had been represented continuously by the Labour party since the late 1950s. Following the defection of sitting MP Lisa Cameron in October 2023 from the SNP, the constituency was represented by the Conservative Party for the first time.
Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
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2005 | Adam Ingram | Labour Party | Previously MP for East Kilbride | |
2010 | Michael McCann | Labour Party | ||
2015 | Lisa Cameron | Scottish National Party | ||
2023 | Conservative | [2] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Lisa Cameron | 26,113 | 46.4 | +7.5 | |
Labour | Monique McAdams | 12,791 | 22.7 | −9.0 | |
Conservative | Gail Macgregor | 11,961 | 21.2 | −4.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ewan McRobert | 3,760 | 6.7 | +3.8 | |
Scottish Green | Erica Bradley-Young | 1,153 | 2.0 | New | |
UKIP | David MacKay | 559 | 1.0 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 13,322 | 23.7 | +16.5 | ||
Turnout | 56,337 | 69.4 | +2.1 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | +8.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Lisa Cameron | 21,023 | 38.9 | −16.7 | |
Labour | Monique McAdams | 17,157 | 31.7 | +3.4 | |
Conservative | Mark McGeever | 13,704 | 25.3 | +13.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul McGarry | 1,590 | 2.9 | +1.2 | |
UKIP | Janice MacKay | 628 | 1.2 | -0.8 | |
Majority | 3,866 | 7.2 | −20.1 | ||
Turnout | 54,102 | 67.3 | −5.5 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | −10.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Lisa Cameron | 33,678 | 55.6 | +32.6 | |
Labour | Michael McCann | 17,151 | 28.3 | −23.2 | |
Conservative | Graham Simpson | 7,129 | 11.8 | −1.2 | |
UKIP | Rob Sale | 1,221 | 2.0 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul McGarry [7] | 1,042 | 1.7 | −8.2 | |
Independent | John Houston | 318 | 0.5 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 16,527 | 27.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 60,539 | 72.8 | +6.2 | ||
SNP gain from Labour | Swing | +27.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Michael McCann | 26,241 | 51.5 | +2.8 | |
SNP | John McKenna | 11,738 | 23.0 | +5.1 | |
Conservative | Graham Simpson | 6,613 | 13.0 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Loughton | 5,052 | 9.9 | −6.7 | |
Scottish Green | Kirsten Robb | 1,003 | 2.0 | −1.3 | |
Independent | John Houston | 299 | 0.6 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 14,503 | 28.5 | −2.3 | ||
Turnout | 50,946 | 66.6 | +3.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −1.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Adam Ingram | 23,264 | 48.7 | −4.3 | |
SNP | Douglas Edwards | 8,541 | 17.9 | −5.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Oswald | 7,904 | 16.6 | +6.6 | |
Conservative | Tony Lewis | 4,776 | 10.0 | +0.3 | |
Scottish Green | Kirsten Robb | 1,575 | 3.3 | New | |
Independent | Rose Gentle | 1,513 | 3.2 | New | |
Independent | John Houston | 160 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 14,723 | 30.8 | |||
Turnout | 47,733 | 63.5 | +1.6 | ||
Labour win (new seat) |
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