Clydebank and Milngavie (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Clydebank and Milngavie | |
|---|---|
| Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of Clydebank and Milngavie in Scotland for the 2001 general election | |
| 1983–2005 | |
| Seats | One |
| Replaced by | West Dunbartonshire East Dunbartonshire |
Clydebank and Milngavie was a county constituency in Scotland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005, when it was redistributed to West Dunbartonshire and East Dunbartonshire as part of a major reorganisation of Scottish constituencies.
The similarly named constituency of Clydebank and Milngavie continues for the Scottish Parliament.
Boundaries
[edit]1983–1997: Clydebank District, and the Bearsden and Milngavie District wards of Barloch, Clober, Craigdhu, and Keystone.
1997–2005: Clydebank District, and the Bearsden and Milngavie District electoral division of Milngavie/Kilmardinny.
Members of Parliament
[edit]| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Hugh McCartney | Labour | |
| 1987 | Tony Worthington | Labour | |
| 2005 | constituency abolished | ||
Elections
[edit]Elections of the 1980s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Hugh McCartney | 17,288 | 44.8 | −6.6 | |
| SDP | James Gourlay | 9,573 | 24.8 | +17.0 | |
| Conservative | Robert Graham | 7,852 | 20.4 | −1.8 | |
| SNP | Alexander Aitken | 3,566 | 9.2 | −6.0 | |
| Communist | James Bollan | 308 | 0.8 | New | |
| Majority | 7,715 | 20.0 | |||
| Turnout | 38,587 | 75.9 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Tony Worthington | 22,528 | 56.9 | +12.1 | |
| Conservative | Kenneth Hirstwood | 6,224 | 15.7 | −4.7 | |
| SDP | Rodney Ackland | 5,891 | 14.9 | −9.9 | |
| SNP | Stanley Fisher | 4,935 | 12.5 | +3.3 | |
| Majority | 16,304 | 41.2 | +21.2 | ||
| Turnout | 39,578 | 78.9 | +3.0 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +5.0 | |||
Elections of the 1990s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Tony Worthington | 19,637 | 53.3 | −3.6 | |
| SNP | Gordon J. Hughes | 7,207 | 19.6 | +7.1 | |
| Conservative | William A. Harvey | 6,654 | 18.1 | +2.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alastair G. Tough | 3,216 | 8.7 | −6.2 | |
| Natural Law | J Barrie | 112 | 0.3 | New | |
| Majority | 12,430 | 33.7 | −7.5 | ||
| Turnout | 36,826 | 77.8 | −1.1 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Tony Worthington | 21,583 | 55.2 | +5.0 | |
| SNP | Jim Yuill | 8,263 | 21.1 | +2.7 | |
| Conservative | Nancy E. Morgan | 4,885 | 12.5 | −9.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Keith W. Moody | 4,086 | 10.5 | +0.9 | |
| Referendum | Ian Sanderson | 269 | 0.7 | New | |
| Majority | 13,320 | 34.1 | +0.4 | ||
| Turnout | 39,086 | 75.0 | −2.8 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections of the 2000s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Tony Worthington | 17,249 | 53.1 | −2.1 | |
| SNP | Jim Yuill | 6,525 | 20.1 | −1.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Rodney Ackland | 3,909 | 12.0 | +1.5 | |
| Conservative | Kate Jardine | 3,514 | 10.8 | −1.7 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Dawn Brennan | 1,294 | 4.0 | New | |
| Majority | 10,724 | 33.0 | −1.1 | ||
| Turnout | 32,491 | 62.5 | −12.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.