Strathclyde East | |
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European Parliament constituency | |
![]() Boundary within Scotland (1979-1984) | |
Member state | United Kingdom |
Created | 1979 |
Dissolved | 1999 |
MEPs | 1 |
Sources | |
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.
The constituency of Strathclyde East was one of them.
When it was created in Scotland in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Bothwell, Coatbridge and Airdrie, East Kilbride, Hamilton, Kilmarnock, Lanarkshire North, Motherwell and Wishaw, and Rutherglen. [1] From 1984 until 1999 it consisted of the constituencies of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, East Kilbride, Glasgow Rutherglen, Hamilton, Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Monklands East, Monklands West, Motherwell North, and Motherwell South. [2]
Elected | Member | Party | |
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1979 | Ken Collins | Labour | |
1984 | |||
1989 | |||
1994 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ken Collins | 72,263 | 49.8 | ||
Conservative | Miss M. A. Carse | 41,482 | 28.6 | ||
SNP | G. S. Murray | 21,013 | 14.5 | ||
Liberal | Dr. J. D. Watts | 10,325 | 7.1 | ||
Majority | 30,781 | 21.2 | |||
Turnout | 145,083 | 31.3 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ken Collins | 90,792 | 58.6 | +8.8 | |
SNP | George A. Leslie | 27,330 | 17.6 | +3.1 | |
Conservative | P. R. (Ross) Leckie | 24,857 | 16.1 | −12.5 | |
Liberal | Mrs. Patricia de Seume | 11,883 | 7.7 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 63,462 | 41.0 | |||
Turnout | 154,862 | 31.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ken Collins | 109,170 | 56.2 | −2.4 | |
SNP | George A. Leslie | 48,853 | 25.2 | +7.6 | |
Conservative | Dr. Michael K. Dutt | 22,233 | 11.4 | −4.7 | |
Green | Alastair Whitelaw | 9,749 | 5.0 | New | |
SLD | Graham C. H. Lait | 4,276 | 2.2 | −5.5 | |
Majority | 60,317 | 31.0 | −10.0 | ||
Turnout | 194,281 | 39.3 | +8.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ken Collins | 106,476 | 58.0 | +1.8 | |
SNP | Ian Hamilton | 54,136 | 29.5 | +4.3 | |
Conservative | Brian D. Cooklin | 13,915 | 7.6 | −3.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | R. (Bob) Stewart | 6,383 | 3.5 | +1.3 | |
Scottish Green | Alistair Whitelaw | 1,874 | 1.0 | −4.0'"`UNIQ−−ref−0000001C−QINU`"' | |
Natural Law | J. D. (Dobie) Gilmour | 787 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 52,340 | 28.5 | −2.5 | ||
Turnout | 183,571 | 37.3 | −2.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
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