Falkirk East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Falkirk East County constituency
Created:	1983
Abolished:	2005
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Falkirk East was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005. It was largely replaced by Linlithgow and East Falkirk.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Harry Ewing	Labour
	1992	Michael Connarty	Labour
2005		constituency abolished: see Linlithgow and East Falkirk

[edit] Election results

General Election 2001: Falkirk East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Connarty	18,536	55.0	-1.1
	Scottish National Party	Isobel Hutton	7,824	23.2	-0.7
	Conservative	Bill Stevenson	3,252	9.6	-4.4
	Liberal Democrat	Karen Utting	2,992	8.9	+3.7
	Scottish Socialist	Anthony Weir	725	2.2	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Raymond Stead	373	1.1	N/A
	Independent	Hugh Lynch	490	1.6	N/A
Majority			10,712	31.8
Turnout			33,702	58.5	-14.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Falkirk West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Connarty	23,344	56.1
	Scottish National Party	Keith Brown	9,959	23.9
	Conservative	Malcolm Nicol	5,813	14.0
	Liberal Democrat	Rodger Spillane	2,153	5.2
	Referendum Party	Sebastian Mowbray	325	0.8
Majority			13,385	32.2
Turnout			41,594	73.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Falkirk West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Connarty	18,423
	Scottish National Party	R. Halliday	10,454
	Conservative	Keith Harding	8,279
	Liberal Democrat	Miss D. Storr	2,775
Majority			7,969
Turnout				76.91
	Labour hold		Swing