Monklands West (UK Parliament constituency)
Appearance
Monklands West | |
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Former constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Monklands |
1983–1997 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Bothwell, Coatbridge & Airdrie, Central Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire and West Stirlingshire[1] |
Replaced by | Coatbridge & Chryston and Strathkelvin & Bearsden[1] |
Monklands West 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), using the first-past-the-post voting system.
It was then replaced by the Coatbridge & Chryston constituency.
Boundaries
The Monklands District electoral divisions of Coatbridge North and Coatbridge South, and the Strathkelvin District electoral division of Chryston and Kelvin Valley.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1983 | Thomas Clarke | Labour |
1997 | constituency abolished: see Coatbridge & Chryston and Strathkelvin & Bearsden |
Election results
Elections of the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Tom Clarke | 20,642 | 54.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Laurence Cameron | 8,378 | 22.0 | N/A | |
SDP | Rodney Ackland | 6,605 | 17.3 | N/A | |
SNP | George Lyon | 2,473 | 6.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,264 | 32.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 38,098 | 75.7 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Tom Clarke | 24,449 | 62.3 | +8.1 | |
Conservative | Gordon Lind | 6,166 | 15.7 | +0.2 | |
SDP | Anne McQueen | 4,408 | 11.2 | −6.1 | |
SNP | Keith Bovey | 4,260 | 10.8 | +4.3 | |
Majority | 18,333 | 46.6 | +14.4 | ||
Turnout | 39,333 | 77.3 | +1.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +7.2 |
Elections of the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Tom Clarke | 23,384 | 61.3 | −1.0 | |
SNP | Keith Bovey | 6,319 | 16.6 | +5.8 | |
Conservative | Andrew Lownie | 6,074 | 15.9 | +0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Shiona Hamilton | 2,382 | 6.2 | −5.0 | |
Majority | 17,065 | 44.7 | −1.9 | ||
Turnout | 38,159 | 77.4 | +0.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
References
- ^ a b "'Monklands West', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.