East Kilbride (UK Parliament constituency)
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| East Kilbride County constituency |
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| Created: | 1974 |
| Abolished: | 2005 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
East Kilbride was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1974 until 2005, when 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 of the Scottish Parliament.
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[edit] 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.
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[edit] Members of Parliament
- 1974 to 1987: Dr Maurice Miller (Labour Party)
- 1987 to 2005: Adam Ingram (Labour Party), subsequently MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
[edit] Elections
| General Election 2001: East Kilbride | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Adam Ingram | 22,205 | 53.3 | -3.3 | |
| Scottish National Party | Archie Buchanan | 9,450 | 22.7 | +1.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Ewan Hawthorn | 4,278 | 10.3 | +3.0 | |
| Conservative | 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 | ||||
