East Kilbride (UK Parliament constituency)

East Kilbride
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	South Lanarkshire
Major settlements	East Kilbride
1974–2005
Number of members	One
Replaced by	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Created from	Lanark

East Kilbride was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster) from 1974 until 2005. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

At the 2005 general election it was merged with part of Clydesdale to form the new constituency of East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow.

The East Kilbride Holyrood constituency, created to be coterminous in 1999, continues in use for elections to the Scottish Parliament.

Boundaries

As abolished in 2005, the constituency included the town of East Kilbride and was one of five constituencies covering the South Lanarkshire council area, the others being Hamilton North and Bellshill, Hamilton South, Glasgow Rutherglen and Clydesdale.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party	Notes
	1974 (Feb)	Dr Maurice Miller	Labour Party	previously MP for Glasgow Kelvingrove
	1987	Adam Ingram	Labour Party	subsequently MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven &Lesmahagow
	2005	constituency abolished

Elections of the 1970s

General Election February 1974: East Kilbride
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dr Maurice Miller	23,424	43.9	N/A
	Conservative	Gilmour William Parvin	15,456	29.0	N/A
	SNP	Donald Paul MacQuarie	13,819	25.9	N/A
	Communist	David McDowell	693	1.3	N/A
Majority			7,968	14.9	N/A
Turnout			53,392	80.8	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

General Election October 1974: East Kilbride
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dr Maurice Miller	21,810	41.9	−2.0
	SNP	Gordon Murray	19,106	36.7	+10.8
	Conservative	Gilmour William Parvin	8,513	16.4	−12.6
	Liberal	David Miller	2,644	5.1	N/A
Majority			2,704	5.2
Turnout			52,073	79.1	−1.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1979: East Kilbride
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dr Maurice Miller	31,401	53.9	+12.0
	Conservative	William Guthrie Hodgson	17,128	29.4	+13.0
	SNP	Gordon Stewart Murray	9,090	15.6	−21.1
	Communist	David McDowell	658	1.1	N/A
Majority			14,273	24.5
Turnout			58,277	79.7	+0.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections of the 1980s

General Election 1983: East Kilbride
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dr Maurice Miller	17,535	37.1	−7.6
	Social Democratic	Denis Robert Emmet Sullivan	13,199	27.9	N/A
	Conservative	Earl of Dalkeith	11,483	24.3	−0.5
	SNP	David Martin Urquhart	4,795	10.2	−5.4
	Communist	William Ernest Doolan	256	0.5	−0.1
Majority			4,336	9.2
Turnout			47,268	77.0	−2.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1987: East Kilbride
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Ingram	24,491	49.0	+11.9
	Social Democratic	Denis Robert Emmet Sullivan	11,867	23.7	−4.2
	Conservative	Paul McKenzie Walker	7,344	14.7	−9.6
	SNP	James Hand Taggart	6,275	12.6	+2.4
Majority			12,624	25.3
Turnout			43,481	79.2	+2.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+8.0

Elections of the 1990s

General Election 1992: East Kilbride
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Ingram	24,055	46.9	−2.1
	SNP	Mrs. Kathleen McAlorum	12,063	23.5	+10.9
	Conservative	Gordon M. Lind	9,781	19.1	+4.4
	Liberal Democrat	Mrs. Sandra May Grieve	5,377	10.5	−13.2
Majority			11,992	23.4
Turnout			51,276	80.0	+0.8
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: East Kilbride
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Ingram	27,584	56.5	+9.6
	SNP	George Currie Gebbie	10,200	20.9	+10.4
	Conservative	Clifford Tex Herbertson	5,863	12.0	+1.0
	Liberal Democrat	Mrs. Kate Hilary Ross Philbrick	3,527	7.2	−6.5
	ProLife Alliance	John A. Deighan	1,170	2.4	N/A
	Referendum	Mrs. Julie Gray	306	0.6	N/A
	Natural Law	Ewan Cunningham Gilmour	146	0.3	N/A
Majority			17,384	35.6
Turnout			48,796	74.8	−5.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections of the 2000s

General Election 2001: East Kilbride
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Ingram	22,205	53.3	−3.3
	SNP	Archie Buchanan	9,450	22.7	+1.8
	Liberal Democrat	Ewan Gordon Hawthorn	4,278	10.3	+3.0
	Conservative	Mrs. Margaret McCulloch	4,238	10.2	−1.8
	Scottish Socialist	David Stevenson	1,519	3.6	N/A
Majority			12,755	30.6
Turnout			41,690	62.6	−12.2
	Labour hold		Swing

References

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