Eastwood (UK Parliament constituency)
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Eastwood | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Subdivisions of Scotland | East Renfrewshire |
Major settlements | Renfrewshire |
1983–2005 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | East Renfrewshire |
Eastwood was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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History
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, when it partially replaced the former East Renfrewshire constituency, following changes in 1975 to local government boundaries.
The East Renfrewshire constituency was re-established for the 2005 general election, with the same boundaries as the Eastwood constituency. Despite the change of name, it is the only constituency in mainland Scotland whose boundaries were unchanged by the 2005 revision of Scottish constituencies.
In 1999, an Eastwood Scottish Parliament constituency was created with the name and boundaries of the Eastwood Westminster constituency. However, while this constituency still exists, its boundaries are now different from the East Renfrewshire UK Parliament seat.
Boundaries
The constituency lay to the south of Glasgow and included Clarkston, Newton Mearns, Eaglesham, Barrhead and Neilston. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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1983 | Allan Stewart | Conservative and Unionist | |
1997 | Jim Murphy | Labour | |
2005 | constituency renamed: see East Renfrewshire |
Election results
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Elections of the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Allan Stewart | 21,072 | 46.5 | N/A | |
Social Democratic | J. Pickett | 12,477 | 27.6 | N/A | |
Labour | J. McGuire | 9,083 | 20.1 | N/A | |
SNP | Ms. J. Herriot | 2,618 | 5.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,595 | 18.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 45,250 | 72.6 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Allan Stewart | 19,388 | 39.5 | −7.0 | |
Social Democratic | Ralph Mcllroy Leishman | 13,374 | 27.2 | −0.4 | |
Labour | Peter Alexander Grant-Hutchinson | 12,305 | 25.1 | +5.0 | |
SNP | James Alexander May Findlay | 4,033 | 8.2 | +2.4 | |
Majority | 6,014 | 12.3 | |||
Turnout | 49,100 | 79.4 | +6.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −3.3 |
Elections of the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Allan Stewart | 24,124 | 46.8 | +7.3 | |
Labour | Peter Alexander Grant-Hutchinson | 12,436 | 24.1 | −1.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Miss Moira Craig | 8,493 | 16.5 | −10.7 | |
SNP | Paul H. Scott | 6,372 | 12.4 | +4.2 | |
Natural Law | Dr. Lee Fergusson | 146 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,688 | 22.7 | |||
Turnout | 51,571 | 81.0 | +1.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jim Murphy | 20,766 | 39.7 | +15.6 | |
Conservative | Paul Cullen | 17,530 | 33.5 | −13.2 | |
SNP | Douglas A. Yates | 6,826 | 13.1 | +0.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Christopher M. Mason | 6,110 | 11.7 | −4.8 | |
Referendum | David I. Miller | 497 | 1.0 | N/A | |
ProLife Alliance | Dr. Manar Tayan | 393 | 0.8 | N/A | |
UKIP | Douglas McPherson | 130 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,236 | 6.2 | |||
Turnout | 52,252 | 77.4 | −3.6 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | 14.4 |
Elections of the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jim Murphy | 23,036 | 47.6 | +7.9 | |
Conservative | Raymond Scott Robertson | 13,895 | 28.7 | −4.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Allan R.M. Steele | 6,239 | 12.9 | +1.2 | |
SNP | Stewart Maxwell | 4,137 | 8.6 | −4.5 | |
Scottish Socialist | Peter J. Murray | 814 | 1.7 | N/A | |
Independent | Dr. Manar Tayan | 247 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,141 | 18.9 | |||
Turnout | 48,368 | 70.7 | −7.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.3 |
References
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Articles using small message boxes
- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 2005
- Politics of Renfrewshire