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Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 55°18′04″N 4°37′05″W / 55.301°N 4.618°W / 55.301; -4.618
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55°18′04″N 4°37′05″W / 55.301°N 4.618°W / 55.301; -4.618

Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock in Scotland for the 2005 general election
Subdivisions of ScotlandEast Ayrshire, South Ayrshire
Current constituency
Created2005
Member of ParliamentCorri Wilson (SNP)
Created fromAyr, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley
Overlaps
Scottish ParliamentSouth Scotland

Ayr, Carrick, and Cumnock is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election from parts of the old Ayr and Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituencies. It has been represented since 2015 by Corri Wilson of the Scottish National Party. Cumnock is notable as the birthplace of Keir Hardie, a founder of the Labour Party and its first leader.

Boundaries and Voting Patterns

Approximately two-thirds of the former Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituency was attached to a third of the former marginal Ayr seat to form the Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock constituency. Ayr is a mix of council estates and affluent middle-class areas. Added to the town is an expanse of left-wing former mining villages. On a local level Carrick has been largely Labour-voting, with the Conservatives doing well in northern Girvan and Coylton. In Ayr the Conservatives have performed strongly in Scottish Parliamentary elections and on a local level, with Labour remaining dominant north of the river Ayr and in patches of east Ayr. Recent Westminister elections suggest that support for the Conservatives has grown considerably in the town of Ayr since the constituency's creation in 2005. Support for Labour in Cumnock and surrounding areas has remained comparably strong at a local level compared to elsewhere in the constituency.

The constituency fell to the SNP at the 2015 SNP landslide election, with SNP candidate Corri Wilson overturning incumbent Labour MP Sandra Osborne's 13,356 lead over the SNP, securing the constituency with a majority of 11,265 votes.

Members of Parliament

Election Member[1] Party
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2005 Sandra Osborne Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2010
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | 2015 Corri Wilson Scottish National Party

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

See also: Opinion polling in United Kingdom constituencies, 2010–15 § Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
General Election 2015: Ayr, Carrick, and Cumnock[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SNP Corri Wilson 25,492 48.8 +30.8
Labour Sandra Osborne 14,227 27.3 -19.9
Conservative Lee Lyons 10,355 19.8 -5.7
UKIP Joseph William Adam-Smith[4] 1,280 2.5 N/A
Liberal Democrats Richard Brodie 855 1.6 -7.7
Majority 11,265 21.6
Turnout 52,209 71.5 +8.9
SNP gain from Labour Swing +25.4
General Election 2010: Ayr, Carrick, and Cumnock[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sandra Osborne 21,632 47.1 +1.8
Conservative William Grant 11,721 25.5 +2.4
SNP Chic Brodie 8,276 18.0 +4.9
Liberal Democrats James Taylor 4,264 9.3 -4.8
Majority 9,911 21.6
Turnout 45,893 62.6 +0.7
Labour hold Swing -0.3

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Ayr, Carrick, and Cumnock[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sandra Osborne 20,433 45.4
Conservative Mark Jones 10,436 23.2
Liberal Democrats Colin Waugh 6,341 14.1
SNP Chic Brodie 5,932 13.2
Scottish Senior Citizens Donald Sharp 592 1.3
Scottish Socialist Murray Steele 554 1.2
Socialist Labour James McDaid 395 0.9
UKIP Bryan McCormack 365 0.8
Majority 9,997 22.2
Turnout 45,048
Labour hold Swing

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 3)
  2. ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  3. ^ http://www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/documents/ayr%20carrick%20cumnock%20results.pdf
  4. ^ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/ayrcarrickandcumnock/
  5. ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 26 July 2013 suggested (help)
  6. ^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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