East_Kilbride_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

East Kilbride
East Kilbride
Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundary of East Kilbride in Scotland for the 2001 general election
Subdivisions of Scotland	South Lanarkshire
Major settlements	East Kilbride
1974–2005
Seats	One
Created from	Lanark
Replaced by	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow

East Kilbride (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1974–2005

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.

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

Elections

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	Member^[1]	Party	Notes
Feb 1974	Maurice Miller	Labour	Previously MP for Glasgow Kelvingrove from 1964
1987	Adam Ingram	Labour	Subsequently, MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow from 2005
2005	constituency abolished

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Maurice Miller	23,424	43.9
	Conservative	Gilmour William Parvin	15,456	29.0
	SNP	Donald Paul MacQuarie	13,819	25.9
	Communist	David McDowell	693	1.3
Majority			7,968	14.9
Turnout			53,392	80.8
	Labour win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	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	New
Majority			2,704	5.2	-9.7
Turnout			52,073	79.1	−1.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maurice Miller	31,401	53.9	+12.0
	Conservative	William Guthrie Hodgson	17,128	29.4	+13.0
	SNP	Gordon Murray	9,090	15.6	−21.1
	Communist	David McDowell	658	1.1	New
Majority			14,273	24.5	+19.3
Turnout			58,277	79.7	+0.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maurice Miller	17,535	37.1	−7.6
	SDP	Denis Sullivan	13,199	27.9	New
	Conservative	Richard Scott	11,483	24.3	−0.5
	SNP	David Urquhart	4,795	10.2	−5.4
	Communist	William Doolan	256	0.5	−0.1
Majority			4,336	9.2
Turnout			47,268	77.0	−2.7
	Labour hold		Swing

East Kilbride
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of East Kilbride in Scotland for the 2001 general election
Subdivisions of Scotland	South Lanarkshire
Major settlements	East Kilbride
1974 (1974)–2005
Seats	One
Created from	Lanark
Replaced by	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Ingram	24,491	49.0	+11.9
	SDP	Denis Sullivan	11,867	23.7	−4.2
	Conservative	Paul Walker	7,344	14.7	−9.6
	SNP	James Taggart	6,275	12.6	+2.4
Majority			12,624	25.3	+16.1
Turnout			43,481	79.2	+2.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+8.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Ingram	24,055	46.9	−2.1
	SNP	Kathleen McAlorum	12,063	23.5	+10.9
	Conservative	Gordon M. Lind	9,781	19.1	+4.4
	Liberal Democrats	Sandra Grieve	5,377	10.5	−13.2
Majority			11,992	23.4	-1.9
Turnout			51,276	80.0	+0.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Ingram	27,584	56.5	+9.6
	SNP	George Gebbie	10,200	20.9	-2.6
	Conservative	Clifford Herbertson	5,863	12.0	+0.9
	Liberal Democrats	Kate Philbrick	3,527	7.2	−3.3
	Prolife Alliance	John A. Deighan	1,170	2.4	New
	Referendum	Julie Gray	306	0.6	New
	Natural Law	Ewan Gilmour	146	0.3	New
Majority			17,384	35.6	+12.2
Turnout			48,796	74.8	−5.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Ingram	22,205	53.3	−3.2
	SNP	Archie Buchanan	9,450	22.7	+1.8
	Liberal Democrats	Ewan Hawthorn	4,278	10.3	+3.1
	Conservative	Margaret McCulloch	4,238	10.2	−1.8
	Scottish Socialist	David Stevenson	1,519	3.6	New
Majority			12,755	30.6	-5.0
Turnout			41,690	62.6	−12.2
	Labour hold		Swing