West Renfrewshire (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with West Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency).

Coordinates: 55°50′57″N 4°34′13″W / 55.849108°N 4.570312°W / 55.849108; -4.570312

West Renfrewshire
Former county constituency for the Scottish Parliament

West Renfrewshire shown within the West of Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Former constituency
Created	1999
Abolished	2011
Council area	Inverclyde

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

For the Scottish Parliament general election, 2011, West Renfrewshire was abolished. Two new seats were created; Renfrewshire North and West, and Renfrewshire South

Electoral region

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

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

Constituency boundaries

The West Renfrewshire 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 divided between new constituencies.^[1]

Council areas

The Holyrood constituency covers a western portion of the Renfrewshire council area and an eastern portion of the Inverclyde council area.

The rest of the Renfrewshire area is covered by the Paisley North, Paisley South and Glasgow Govan constituencies. Glasgow Govan is in the Glasgow electoral region.

The Greenock and Inverclyde constituency covers the rest of the Inverclyde area.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

	Member	Party
1999	Trish Godman	Labour
2003
2007

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: West Renfrewshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Trish Godman	10,467	35.9	+1.7
	Conservative	Annabel Goldie	8,289	28.5	+4.2
	SNP	Bill Wilson	8,167	28.0	+2.6
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Hutton	2,206	7.6	-2.7
Majority			2,178	7.5
Turnout			29,129	58.3	+2.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: West Renfrewshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Trish Godman	9,671	34.17	-3.17
	SNP	Bruce McFee	7,179	25.37	-3.67
	Conservative	Annabel Goldie	6,867	24.26	+2.98
	Liberal Democrats	Alison King	2,902	10.25	+2.44
	Scottish Socialist	Gerry MaCartney	1,683	5.95	+5.95
Majority			2,492	8.81	+0.31
Turnout			28,302	55.53	-9.36
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.25%

Scottish Parliament election, 1999: West Renfrewshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Trish Godman	12,708	37.34	N/A
	SNP	Colin Campbell	9,815	28.84	N/A
	Conservative	Annabel Goldie	7,243	21.28	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Neal Ascherson	2,659	7.81	N/A
	Independent	Allan McGraw	1,136	3.34	N/A
	Socialist Workers	Patrick Clark	476	1.40	N/A
Majority			2,893	8.50	N/A
Turnout

Notes and references

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

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

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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

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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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