East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 55°23′24″N 3°39′40″W / 55.390°N 3.661°W

East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow in Scotland.
Subdivisions of Scotland	South Lanarkshire
Major settlements	East Kilbride, Strathaven, Lesmahagow
Current constituency
Created	2005
Member of parliament	Lisa Cameron (SNP)
Created from	East Kilbride Clydesdale
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Scotland

East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was first used in the general election of 2005. It replaced East Kilbride and some of Clydesdale, and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

As created by the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, the constituency is one of six covering the Dumfries and Galloway council area, the Scottish Borders council area and the South Lanarkshire council area. The other five constituencies are: Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, Dumfries and Galloway, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, Lanark and Hamilton East and Rutherglen and Hamilton West.

The East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow constituency covers part of the South Lanarkshire council area. The rest of the council area is covered by the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency, the Lanark and Hamilton East constituency and the Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency. The Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency also covers part of the Dumfries and Galloway council area and part of the South Borders council area.

The terms of the East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow name refer to the towns of East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow. However, the constituency also includes the settlements of Auldhouse, Blackwood, Caldermill, Chapelton, Drumclog, Glassford, Kirkmuirhill, Jackton, Nerston, Stonehouse and Thorntonhall.

Member of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	2005	Adam Ingram	Labour Party	Previously MP for East Kilbride
	2010	Michael McCann	Labour Party
	2015	Lisa Cameron	Scottish National Party

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow[1][2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Lisa Cameron	33,678	55.6	+32.6
	Labour	Michael McCann	17,151	28.3	-23.2
	Conservative	Graham Simpson	7,129	11.8	-1.2
	UKIP	Rob Sale	1,221	2.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Paul McGarry[3]	1,042	1.7	-8.2
	Independent	John Houston	318	0.5	-0.1
Majority			16,527	27.3
Turnout			60,539	72.8	+6.2
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing	+27.9

General Election 2010: East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael McCann	26,241	51.5	+2.8
	SNP	John McKenna	11,738	23.0	+5.1
	Conservative	Graham Simpson	6,613	13.0	+3.0
	Liberal Democrats	John Loughton	5,052	9.9	-6.6
	Scottish Green	Kirsten Robb	1,003	2.0	-1.3
	Independent	John Houston	299	0.6	+0.3
Majority			14,503	28.5
Turnout			50,946	66.6	+3.1
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.2

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Ingram	23,264	48.7	-4.3
	SNP	Douglas Edwards	8,541	17.9	-5.8
	Liberal Democrats	John Oswald	7,904	16.6	+6.6
	Conservative	Tony Lewis	4,776	10.0	+0.3
	Scottish Green	Kirsten Robb	1,575	3.3	N/A
	Independent	Rose Gentle	1,513	3.2	N/A
	Independent	John Houston	160	0.3	N/A
Majority			14,723	30.8
Turnout			47,733	63.5	+1.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.8

References

1. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
2. http://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/9532/uk_parliamentary_general_election_results_2015 10Aug15
3. http://www.central.scot

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)