Lanark and Hamilton East (UK Parliament constituency)

Lanark and Hamilton East
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Lanark and Hamilton East in Scotland
Subdivisions of Scotland	South Lanarkshire
Current constituency
Created	2005
Member of Parliament	Angela Crawley (SNP)
Created from	Clydesdale Hamilton North & Bellshill Hamilton South

Lanark and Hamilton East is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was first used at the 2005 general election. It covers parts of the former Clydesdale, Hamilton North and Bellshill and Hamilton South constituencies, and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

Historically a safe Labour seat, in 2015 it was gained by the Scottish National Party when they won a record 56 of the 59 Scottish seats at Westminster. Two years later at the 2017 general election, the Conservatives surged into second place; only 266 votes behind sitting MP Angela Crawley - followed by Labour in third place with less than 100 votes behind the Conservative candidate, making the seat Scotland's tightest three-way marginal. The result also made it the tightest three-way marginal since 1945.

Boundaries

As created by the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland the constituency is one of six covering the Dumfries and Galloway council area, the Scottish Borders council area and the South Lanarkshire council area. The other five constituencies are: Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, Dumfries and Galloway, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow and Rutherglen and Hamilton West.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	2005	Jimmy Hood	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" |	2015	Angela Crawley	SNP

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2017: Lanark and Hamilton East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Angela Crawley	16,444	32.6	−16.3
	Conservative	Poppy Corbett	16,178	32.1	+16.2
	Labour	Andrew Hilland	16,084	31.9	+1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Colin Robb	1,214	2.4	+0.2
	UKIP	Donald Mackay	550	1.1	−1.5
Majority			266	0.5	−16.2
Turnout			50,470	65.3	−3.8
	SNP hold		Swing

General Election 2015: Lanark and Hamilton East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Angela Crawley	26,976	48.8	+27.8
	Labour	Jimmy Hood	16,876	30.5	−19.4
	Conservative	Alex Allison	8,772	15.9	+0.9
	UKIP	Donald Mackay	1,431	2.6	+1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Gregg Cullen	1,203	2.2	−9.1
Majority			10,100	18.3
Turnout			55,258	69.1	+6.8
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing	+23.6

General Election 2010: Lanark and Hamilton East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jimmy Hood	23,258	50.0	+3.9
	SNP	Clare Adamson	9,780	21.0	+3.2
	Conservative	Colin McGavigan	6,981	15.0	+2.2
	Liberal Democrats	Douglas Herbison	5,249	11.3	−7.4
	Independent	Duncan McFarlane	670	1.4	+0.5
	UKIP	Rob Sale	616	1.3	+0.3
Majority			13,478	29.0	+1.5
Turnout			46,554	62.3	+3.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.35

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Lanark and Hamilton East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jimmy Hood	20,072	46.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Fraser Grieve	8,125	18.6	N/A
	SNP	John Wilson	7,746	17.8	N/A
	Conservative	Robert Pettigrew	5,576	12.8	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	Dennis Reilly	802	1.8	N/A
	UKIP	Donald Mackay	437	1.0	N/A
	Independent	Duncan McFarlane	416	1.0	N/A
	Christian Vote	Robin Mawhinney	415	1.0	N/A
Majority			11,947	27.4
Turnout			43,589	59.1
	Labour win (new seat)