Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | North Lanarkshire South Lanarkshire |
Major settlements | Motherwell, Wishaw, Carluke |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC (TBC) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Motherwell and Wishaw |
Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested at the 2024 general election.
The vast majority of the constituency comes from Motherwell and Wishaw constituency. [2]
The constituency will comprise the following wards of North Lanarkshire: [3]
And from South Lanarkshire: [3]
Electoral Calculus characterises the seat as "Traditionalist", with left-wing economic views but more liberal social attitudes. Incomes and house prices in the seat are well below UK averages. [4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Oyebola Ajala | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Hayley Bennie | ||||
SNP | Marion Fellows | ||||
British Unionist | Gus Ferguson | ||||
Scottish Libertarian | Ross Hagen | ||||
Reform UK | Robert McLaughlan | ||||
Scottish Green | Gordon Miller | ||||
Labour | Pamela Nash | ||||
UKIP | Neil Wilson | ||||
Majority | |||||
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Swing | |||||
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