Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 55°18′04″N 4°37′05″W / 55.301°N 4.618°W

Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock in Scotland for the 2005 general election.
Subdivisions of Scotland	East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire
Current constituency
Created	2005
Member of parliament	Corri Wilson (SNP)
Created from	Ayr, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley
Overlaps
Scottish Parliament	South Scotland
European Parliament constituency	Scotland

Ayr, Carrick, and Cumnock is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election from parts of the old Ayr and Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituencies. It has been represented since 2015 by Corri Wilson of the Scottish National Party. Cumnock is notable as the birthplace of Keir Hardie, a founder of the Labour Party and its first leader.

Boundaries and Voting Patterns

Approximately two-thirds of the former Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituency was attached to a third of the former marginal Ayr seat to form the Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock constituency. Ayr is a mix of council estates and affluent middle-class areas. Added to the town is an expanse of left-wing former mining villages. On a local level Carrick has been largely Labour-voting, with the Conservatives doing well in northern Girvan and Coylton. In Ayr the Conservatives have performed strongly in Scottish Parliamentary elections and on a local level, with Labour remaining dominant north of the river Ayr and in patches of east Ayr. Recent Westminister elections suggest that support for the Conservatives has grown considerably in the town of Ayr since the constituency's creation in 2005. Support for Labour in Cumnock and surrounding areas has remained comparably strong at a local level compared to elsewhere in the constituency.

The constituency fell to the SNP at the 2015 SNP landslide election, with SNP candidate Corri Wilson overturning incumbent Labour MP Sandra Osborne's 13,356 lead over the SNP, securing the constituency with a majority of 11,265 votes.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party
	2005	Sandra Osborne	Labour
	2010
	2015	Corri Wilson	Scottish National Party

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Ayr, Carrick, and Cumnock[2][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Corri Wilson	25,492	48.8	+30.8
	Labour	Sandra Osborne	14,227	27.3	-19.9
	Conservative	Lee Lyons	10,355	19.8	-5.7
	UKIP	Joseph William Adam-Smith[4]	1,280	2.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Brodie	855	1.6	-7.7
Majority			11,265	21.6
Turnout			52,209	71.5	+8.9
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing	+25.4

General Election 2010: Ayr, Carrick, and Cumnock[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sandra Osborne	21,632	47.1	+1.8
	Conservative	William Grant	11,721	25.5	+2.4
	SNP	Chic Brodie	8,276	18.0	+4.9
	Liberal Democrat	James Taylor	4,264	9.3	-4.8
Majority			9,911	21.6
Turnout			45,893	62.6	+0.7
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.3

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Ayr, Carrick, and Cumnock[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sandra Osborne	20,433	45.4
	Conservative	Mark Jones	10,436	23.2
	Liberal Democrat	Colin Waugh	6,341	14.1
	SNP	Chic Brodie	5,932	13.2
	Scottish Senior Citizens	Donald Sharp	592	1.3
	Scottish Socialist	Murray Steele	554	1.2
	Socialist Labour	James McDaid	395	0.9
	UKIP	Bryan McCormack	365	0.8
Majority			9,997	22.2
Turnout			45,048
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 3)
2. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
3. http://www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/documents/ayr%20carrick%20cumnock%20results.pdf
4. http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/ayrcarrickandcumnock/
5. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
6. "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.