Greenock and Inverclyde (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Greenock and Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency).

Greenock and Inverclyde
county constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Greenock and Inverclyde shown within the West Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	1999
Party	SNP
MSP	Stuart McMillan
Council area	Inverclyde

Greenock and Inverclyde is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Electoral region

The other nine constituencies of the West Scotland region are Clydebank and Milngavie, Cunninghame North, Cunninghame South, Dumbarton, Eastwood, Paisley, Renfrewshire North and West, Renfrewshire South and Strathkelvin and Bearsden.

The region covers part of the Argyll and Bute council area, the East Dunbartonshire council area, the East Renfrewshire council area, the Inverclyde council area, North Ayrshire council area, the Renfrewshire council area and the West Dunbartonshire council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area

The Greenock and Inverclyde constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency was merged into a new to Inverclyde constituency.^[1]

The rest of Inverclyde is covered by the Renfrewshire North and West constituency.

From the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the electoral wards used to form this constituency are:

In full: Inverclyde East Central, Inverclyde North, Inverclyde South, Inverclyde West, Inverclyde South West
In part: Inverclyde East (shared with Renfrewshire North and West)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

	Member	Party
1999	Duncan McNeil	Labour
2003
2007
2011
2016	Stuart McMillan	SNP

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Greenock and Inverclyde
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Stuart McMillan	17,032	53.7	+11.6
	Labour	Siobhan McCready	8,802	27.7	-16.2
	Conservative	Graeme Brooks	4,487	14.1	+7.0
	Liberal Democrats	John Watson	1,404	4.4	-2.4
Majority			8,230	27
Turnout			31,725	57.5
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Greenock and Inverclyde
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Duncan McNeil	12,387	43.9	-0.2
	SNP	Stuart McMillan	11,876	42.1	+13.6
	Conservative	Graeme Andrew Brooks	2,011	7.1	-4.1
	Liberal Democrats	Ross Finnie	1,934	6.9	-9.4
Majority			511	1.8
Turnout			28,203	49.3	-729
	Labour hold		Swing	6.9 %

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Greenock and Inverclyde
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour		12,753	44.1
	SNP		8,236	28.5
	Liberal Democrats		4,704	16.3
	Conservative		3,244	11.2
Majority			4,517	15.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Greenock and Inverclyde
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Duncan McNeil	10,035	43.4	2.7
	SNP	Stuart McMillan	7,011	30.3	15.4
	Liberal Democrats	Ross Finnie	3,893	16.8	-11.2
	Conservative	Charles Ferguson	2,166	9.4	2.8
Majority			3,024	13.1
Turnout			23,105	51.8	0.1

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Greenock and Inverclyde
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Duncan McNeil	9,674	40.68	-0.58
	Liberal Democrats	Ross Finnie	6,665	28.03	+1.83
	SNP	Tom Chalmers	3,532	14.85	-8.76
	Scottish Socialist	Tricia McCafferty	2,338	9.83	+6.84
	Conservative	Charles Dunlop	1,572	6.61	+0.68
Majority			3,009	12.65	-2.41
Turnout			23,781,	51.65	-7.30
	Labour hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 1999: Greenock and Inverclyde
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Duncan McNeil	11,817	41.26	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Ross Finnie	7,504	26.20	N/A
	SNP	Ian Hamilton	6,762	23.61	N/A
	Conservative	Richard Wilkinson	1,699	5.93	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	Les Robertson	857	2.99	N/A
Majority			4,313	15.06
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Notes and references

↑ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland

« 1999–2011 « Electoral regions and constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 2011–

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Provan Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Southside Rutherglen

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Ross Inverness and Nairn Moray Na h-Eileanan an Iar Orkney Shetland Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

Lothian	Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh

Mid Scotland and Fife	Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Mid Fife and Glenrothes North East Fife Perthshire North Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen Donside Aberdeen South and North Kincardine Aberdeenshire East Aberdeenshire West Angus North and Mearns Angus South Banffshire and Buchan Coast Dundee City East Dundee City West

South Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Dumfriesshire East Lothian Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire Galloway and West Dumfries Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley Midlothian South, Tweeddale, and Lauderdale

West Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Cunninghame South Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley Renfrewshire North and West Renfrewshire South Strathkelvin and Bearsden

Electoral regions and Constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2011 » 2011– »

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton North and Bellshill Hamilton South Kilmarnock and Loudoun Motherwell and Wishaw

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Baillieston Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Govan Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Rutherglen Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Springburn

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber Moray Orkney Ross, Skye and Inverness West Shetland Western Isles

Lothians	Edinburgh Central Edinburgh East and Musselburgh Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh South Edinburgh West Linlithgow Livingston Midlothian

Mid Scotland and Fife	Central Fife Dunfermline East Dunfermline West Kirkcaldy North East Fife North Tayside Ochil Perth Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Angus Banff and Buchan Dundee East Dundee West Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

South of Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

West of Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley North Paisley South Strathkelvin and Bearsden West Renfrewshire

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