Dumbarton | |
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Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons | |
Major settlements | Dumbarton, Helensburgh |
1983–2005 | |
Seats | one |
Replaced by | West Dumbartonshire |
Dumbarton was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005. It was largely absorbed into the new constituency of West Dunbartonshire, with Helensburgh joining Argyll and Bute.
The Dumbarton constituency of the Scottish Parliament, which was created in 1999 with the same boundaries, continues to exist.
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It consisted of the towns of Dumbarton, the Vale of Leven, and Helensburgh, plus a significant rural hinterland.
Election | Member [1] | Party | |
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1983 | Ian Campbell | Labour | |
1987 | John McFall | Labour Co-operative | |
2005 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ian Campbell | 15,810 | 36.7 | -11.6 | |
Conservative | Iain Lawson | 13,695 | 31.8 | -2.0 | |
SDP | Robert Sawyer | 9,813 | 22.8 | New | |
SNP | Ian Bayne | 3,768 | 8.7 | -9.1 | |
Majority | 2,115 | 4.9 | |||
Turnout | 43,086 | 75.1 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | John McFall | 19,778 | 43.0 | +6.3 | |
Conservative | Robert Graham | 14,556 | 31.7 | −0.1 | |
SDP | Richard Mowbray | 6,060 | 13.2 | −9.6 | |
SNP | Jenny Herriot | 5,564 | 12.1 | +3.4 | |
Majority | 5,222 | 11.3 | +6.4 | ||
Turnout | 45,958 | 77.9 | +2.8 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +3.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | John McFall | 19,255 | 43.6 | +0.6 | |
Conservative | Thomas Begg | 13,126 | 29.8 | −1.9 | |
SNP | Bill McKechnie | 8,127 | 18.4 | +6.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Morrison | 3,425 | 7.8 | −5.4 | |
Natural Law | Diana Krass | 192 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 6,129 | 13.8 | +2.5 | ||
Turnout | 44,125 | 77.1 | −0.8 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +1.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | John McFall | 20,470 | 49.6 | +6.0 | |
SNP | William McKechnie | 9,587 | 23.2 | +6.8 | |
Conservative | Peter Ramsay | 7,283 | 17.6 | −12.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alan Reid | 3,144 | 7.6 | −0.2 | |
Scottish Socialist | Leslie Robertson | 283 | 0.7 | New | |
Referendum | George Dempster | 255 | 0.6 | New | |
UKIP | Robert Lancaster | 242 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 10,883 | 26.4 | +12.6 | ||
Turnout | 41,264 | 73.4 | −3.7 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | John McFall | 16,151 | 47.5 | −2.1 | |
SNP | Iain Robertson | 6,576 | 19.3 | −3.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Eric Thompson | 5,265 | 15.5 | +7.9 | |
Conservative | Peter Ramsay | 4,648 | 13.7 | −3.9 | |
Scottish Socialist | Leslie Robertson | 1,354 | 4.0 | +3.3 | |
Majority | 9,575 | 28.2 | +1.8 | ||
Turnout | 33,994 | 61.1 | −12.3 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
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