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This article is about the former local government district. For the area of Glasgow, see Eastwood, Glasgow.

55°48′25″N 4°17′42″W / 55.807°N 4.295°W / 55.807; -4.295

Eastwood

Eastwood district within Scotland
Population
 • 199460,600
History
 • Created1975
 • Abolished1996
 • Succeeded byEast Renfrewshire
StatusDistrict
GovernmentEastwood District Council
 • HQGiffnock

Eastwood (Scottish Gaelic: A' Choille an Ear, Scots: Eastwid) was a local government district in the Strathclyde region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996,[1] lying south-west of the City of Glasgow.

Local Government

The district was named after the larger civil parish of Eastwood,[2] itself named after a long-vanished woodland.[3] The Local Government district was formed from the area of the First District of the former county of Renfrewshire. It was one of nineteen local government districts in the Strathclyde region. The council's headquarters were at Giffnock.

The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 abolished all of the districts and regions. The Eastwood District was merged with a few parts of the Renfrew District (the sector covering Barrhead) to form the East Renfrewshire unitary council area.

Electoral History

Election Control Administration
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" | 1974 Conservative Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" | 1977 Conservative Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" | 1980 Conservative Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" | 1984 Conservative Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" | 1988 Conservative Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" | 1992 Conservative Conservative

District result maps

  • 1980 results map
    1980 results map
  • 1984 results map
    1984 results map
  • 1988 results map
    1988 results map
  • 1992 results map
    1992 results map

Constituencies

The Eastwood Westminster constituency was created in 1983, and the Eastwood Holyrood constituency, with the same boundaries, in 1999.

The Westminster constituency was renamed East Renfrewshire in 2005. The Holyrood constituency retains its original name.

See also

References

  1. ^ Eastwood, Undiscovered Scotland
  2. ^ Parish of Eastwood at Gazetteer for Scotland
  3. ^ Eastwood, or Pollock, Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, 1846 (British History Online)
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