Motherwell North

Motherwell North
Former burgh constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Lanarkshire
1983–1997
Seats	one
Created from	Bothwell, Lanark and North Lanarkshire [1]
Replaced by	Airdrie & Shotts, Hamilton North & Bellshill and Motherwell and Wishaw [1]

Motherwell North was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1997. It was formed by the division of Motherwell and Wishaw and was later merged into a new creation of the constituency.

Boundaries

The Motherwell District electoral divisions of Bellshill and Tannochside, Clydesdale, and Fortissat.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Jimmy Hamilton	Labour
	1987	John Reid	Labour
1997		constituency abolished. See: Airdrie & Shotts, Hamilton North & Bellshill and Motherwell and Wishaw [1]

Election results

Elections of the 1980s

General election 1983: Motherwell North ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Hamilton	24,483	57.8	+0.5
	Conservative	Robert Hargrave	6,589	15.5	−5.6
	Liberal	Gordon Whitelaw	5,970	14.1	+6.2
	SNP	Richard Lyle	5,333	12.6	−1.1
Majority			17,894	42.3	+6.1
Turnout			42,375	75.0
	Labour win (new seat)

General election 1987: Motherwell North ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Reid	29,825	66.9	+9.1
	SNP	Andrew Currie	6,230	14.0	+1.4
	Conservative	Robert Hargrave	4,939	11.1	−4.4
	Liberal	George Swift	3,558	8.0	−6.1
Majority			23,595	52.9	+10.6
Turnout			44,552	77.3	+2.3
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.8

Elections of the 1990s

General election 1992: Motherwell North ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Reid	27,852	63.4	−3.5
	SNP	David Clark	8,942	20.3	+6.3
	Conservative	Robert Hargrave	5,011	11.4	+0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Harriet Smith	2,145	4.9	−3.1
Majority			18,910	43.1	−9.8
Turnout			43,950	76.9	−0.4
	Labour hold		Swing	−1.9

References

1. "'Motherwell North', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
2. "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
3. "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
4. "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)