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Elaine Stewart | |
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| Member of Parliament for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Allan Dorans |
| Majority | 4,154 (10.2%) |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Labour |
Elaine Stewart is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Ayr,Carrick and Cumnock since 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she gained the seat from Allan Dorans,a member of the Scottish National Party. [1]
Ayr is a town situated on the southwest coast of Scotland. A former royal burgh,today it is the administrative centre of the South Ayrshire Council,and the historic county town of Ayrshire. With a population of 46,982,Ayr is the 15th largest settlement in Scotland and second largest town in Ayrshire by population. The town is contiguous with the smaller town of Prestwick to the north. Ayr submitted unsuccessful bids for city status in 2000 and 2002,and as part of the wider South Ayrshire area in 2022.
Cumnock is a town and former civil parish located in East Ayrshire,Scotland. The town sits at the confluence of the Glaisnock Water and the Lugar Water. There are three neighbouring housing projects which lie just outside the town boundaries,Craigens,Logan and Netherthird,with the former ironworks settlement of Lugar also just outside the town,contributing to a population of around 13,000 in the immediate locale. A new housing development,Knockroon,was granted planning permission on 9 December 2009 by East Ayrshire Council.
Sandra Currie Osborne is a Scottish Labour politician,who was the Member of Parliament for Ayr,Carrick and Cumnock from the 2005 to 2015 general elections. She was first elected as MP for the Ayr constituency in 1997,and resigned from a government job in 2003 over the Iraq War. She was a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee from 2005 to 2010 and again from 2013. She was a member of the Defence Select Committee 2010-13 and was a member of the Council of Europe.
Cumnock and Doon Valley was one of nineteen local government districts in the Strathclyde region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996.
Kyle and Carrick was one of nineteen local government districts in the Strathclyde region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996.
Kyle is a former comital district of Scotland which stretched across parts of modern-day East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire. It is supposedly named after Coel Hen,a legendary king of the Britons,who is said to be buried under a mound at Coylton.
Ayr,Carrick and Cumnock is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election from parts of the old Ayr and Carrick,Cumnock and Doon Valley constituencies. It has been represented since 2024 by Elaine Stewart of Scottish Labour.
Central Ayrshire is a constituency of the British House of Commons,located in the south-west of Scotland within the North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire council areas. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years using the first-past-the-post system of voting.
Ayr was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 to 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
South Ayrshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1983,when it was abolished. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP),elected by the first past the post voting system.
Ayr is a burgh constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering the town of Ayr in the council area of South Ayrshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) via the plurality electoral system. It is also one of nine constituencies in the South Scotland electoral region which elects seven additional members to the Scottish Parliament via a proportional electoral system known as the Additional Members System which allows for greater accuracy in representation for the region as a whole.
Carrick,Cumnock and Doon Valley is a county constituency of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood,covering parts of the council areas of South Ayrshire and East Ayrshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. Also,it is one of nine constituencies in the South Scotland electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to the nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Carrick,Cumnock and Doon Valley was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005. Half of the constituency was incorporated into the new Ayr,Carrick and Cumnock constituency,with the remainder incorporated into the new Central Ayrshire constituency and the expanded Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency.
Doonfoot is a suburb in the south-west of Ayr,South Ayrshire.
Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999,the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England,Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.
Elections to South Ayrshire Council took place on 3 May 2012 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections,it was held using single transferable vote (STV) –a form of proportional representation –in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.
Corraine Wilson is a Scottish politician who served as the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr,Carrick and Cumnock from 2015 to 2017.
William Grant is a Scottish Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ayr,Carrick and Cumnock UK Parliamentary constituency from June 2017 to November 2019.
Allan Hopkins Dorans is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr,Carrick and Cumnock from 2019 until his eventual electoral defeat at the 2024 general election.
Carol Mochan is a Scottish Labour politician. She has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the South Scotland region since the election in May 2021.
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