Lanark and Hamilton East | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | South Lanarkshire |
Major settlements | Carluke, Carstairs, Hamilton, Lanark, Larkhall, Uddingston |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2005 |
Member of Parliament | Angela Crawley (SNP) |
Created from | Clydesdale Hamilton North & Bellshill Hamilton South |
Lanark and Hamilton East is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was first used at the 2005 general election. It covers parts of the former Clydesdale, Hamilton North and Bellshill and Hamilton South constituencies, and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Historically a safe Labour seat, in 2015 it was gained by the Scottish National Party when they won a record 56 of the 59 Scottish seats at Westminster, ending 51 years of Labour Party dominance at UK general elections in Scotland. Two years later, at the 2017 general election, the Conservatives surged into second place, only 266 votes behind sitting MP Angela Crawley, followed by Labour in third place, just 96 votes behind the Conservative candidate, making the seat Britain's tightest three-way marginal. The result also made it the tightest three-way marginal since 1945.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to major boundary changes, gaining western areas of Hamilton and losing the towns of Bothwell, Uddingston and Carluke. As a consequence, the reconfigured constituency will be renamed Hamilton and Clyde Valley, to be first contested at the next general election. [1]
The seat covers most of Hamilton and the rural area around Lanark. Electoral Calculus describes the seat as "Traditional", characterised by working class people with lower levels of income and formal education. [2]
As created by the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland [3] the constituency is one of six covering the Dumfries and Galloway council area, the Scottish Borders council area and the South Lanarkshire council area. The other five constituencies are: Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, Dumfries and Galloway, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow, and Rutherglen and Hamilton West.
The constituency is created with the electoral wards of:
Election | Member [4] | Party | |
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2005 | Jimmy Hood | Labour | |
2015 | Angela Crawley | SNP |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Angela Crawley | 22,243 | 41.9 | +9.3 | |
Conservative | Shona Haslam | 17,056 | 32.1 | 0.0 | |
Labour | Andrew Hilland | 10,736 | 20.2 | -11.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jane Pickard | 3,037 | 5.7 | +3.3 | |
Majority | 5,187 | 9.8 | +9.3 | ||
Turnout | 53,072 | 68.3 | +3.0 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | +4.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Angela Crawley | 16,444 | 32.6 | -16.2 | |
Conservative | Poppy Corbett | 16,178 | 32.1 | +16.2 | |
Labour | Andrew Hilland | 16,084 | 31.9 | +1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Colin Robb | 1,214 | 2.4 | +0.2 | |
UKIP | Donald Mackay | 550 | 1.1 | -1.5 | |
Majority | 266 | 0.5 | -16.2 | ||
Turnout | 50,470 | 65.3 | -3.8 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | -16.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Angela Crawley | 26,976 | 48.8 | +27.8 | |
Labour | Jimmy Hood | 16,876 | 30.5 | -19.5 | |
Conservative | Alex Allison | 8,772 | 15.9 | +0.9 | |
UKIP | Donald Mackay | 1,431 | 2.6 | +1.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gregg Cullen | 1,203 | 2.2 | -9.1 | |
Majority | 10,100 | 18.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 55,258 | 69.1 | +6.8 | ||
SNP gain from Labour | Swing | +23.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jimmy Hood | 23,258 | 50.0 | +4.0 | |
SNP | Clare Adamson | 9,780 | 21.0 | +3.2 | |
Conservative | Colin McGavigan | 6,981 | 15.0 | +2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Douglas Herbison | 5,249 | 11.3 | −7.3 | |
Independent | Duncan McFarlane | 670 | 1.4 | +0.4 | |
UKIP | Rob Sale | 616 | 1.3 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 13,478 | 29.0 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 46,554 | 62.3 | +3.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jimmy Hood | 20,072 | 46.0 | -4.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Fraser Grieve | 8,125 | 18.6 | +7.3 | |
SNP | John Wilson | 7,746 | 17.8 | -4.1 | |
Conservative | Robert Pettigrew | 5,576 | 12.8 | +0.3 | |
Scottish Socialist | Dennis Reilly | 802 | 1.8 | -1.3 | |
UKIP | Donald Mackay | 437 | 1.0 | +0.5 | |
Independent | Duncan McFarlane | 416 | 1.0 | New | |
Christian Vote | Robin Mawhinney | 415 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 11,947 | 27.4 | |||
Turnout | 43,589 | 59.1 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
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