Monklands West (UK Parliament constituency)

Monklands West
Former constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Monklands
1983–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Coatbridge & Chryston and Strathkelvin & Bearsden[1]
Created from	Bothwell, Coatbridge & Airdrie, Central Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire and West Stirlingshire[1]

Monklands West was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.

It was then replaced by the Coatbridge & Chryston constituency.

Boundaries

The Monklands District electoral divisions of Coatbridge North and Coatbridge South, and the Strathkelvin District electoral division of Chryston and Kelvin Valley.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Thomas Clarke	Labour
1997		constituency abolished: see Coatbridge & Chryston and Strathkelvin & Bearsden

Elections of the 1980s

General Election 1983: Monklands West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Clarke	20,642	54.2	N/A
	Conservative	Laurence Cameron	8,378	22.0	N/A
	Social Democratic	Rodney Ackland	6,605	17.3	N/A
	SNP	George Angus Lyon	2,473	6.5	N/A
Majority			12,264	32.2	N/A
Turnout			38,098	75.7	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

General Election 1987: Monklands West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Clarke	24,449	62.3	+8.1
	Conservative	Gordon Lind	6,166	15.7	+0.2
	Social Democratic	Ms. Anne McQueen	4,408	11.2	−6.1
	SNP	Keith Sydney Bovey	4,260	10.8	+4.3
Majority			18,333	46.6
Turnout			39,333	77.3	+1.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+7.2

Elections of the 1990s

General Election 1992: Monklands West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Clarke	23,384	61.3	−1.0
	SNP	Keith Sydney Bovey	6,319	16.6	+5.8
	Conservative	Andrew James Hamilton Lownie	6,074	15.9	+0.2
	Liberal Democrat	Ms. Shiona Hamilton	2,382	6.2	−5.0
Majority			17,065	44.7
Turnout			38,159	77.4	+0.1
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. "'Monklands West', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 2 March 2016.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)