Monklands East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Monklands East constituency
Created:	1983
Abolished:	1997
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	One

Monklands East 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) by the first past the post voting system.

For the 1997 general election, it was replaced in part by Airdrie and Shotts.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 References

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	John Smith	Labour
	1994 by-election	Helen Liddell	Labour
1997		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

Monklands East by-election, 1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Liddell	16,950	49.8	−11.5
	Scottish National Party	Kay Ullrich	15,320	44.9	+26.9
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Gallagher	878	2.6	−2.0
	Conservative	Susan Bell	799	2.3	−13.7
	Independent	Abi Bremner	69	0.2	N/A
	Natural Law	Duncan Patterson	58	0.2	N/A
Majority			1,640	4.9	−42.4
Turnout				70.0	−5.0
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Monklands East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Smith	22,266	61.3	+0.3
	Scottish National Party	J. Wright	6,554	18.0	+5.1
	Conservative	S. Walters	5,830	16.1	−6.8
	Liberal Democrat	P. W. Ross	1,679	4.6	−4.8
Majority			15,712	43.3	−0.9
Turnout				75.0	+0.2
	Labour hold		Swing