East Kilbride
County constituency
for the Scottish Parliament
East Kilbride shown within the Central Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Population77,300 (2019)[1]
Current constituency
Created1999
PartyScottish National Party
MSPCollette Stevenson
Council areaSouth Lanarkshire

East Kilbride (Gaelic: Cille Bhrìghde an Ear) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of South Lanarkshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

The seat has been held by Collette Stevenson of the Scottish National Party since the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.

Electoral region

The other eight constituencies of the Central Scotland region are: Airdrie and Shotts, Coatbridge and Chryston, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Falkirk East, Falkirk West, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, Motherwell and Wishaw and Uddingston and Bellshill.

The region covers all of the Falkirk council area, all of the North Lanarkshire council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area

The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster (House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.[2]

The Holyrood constituency is one of five covering the South Lanarkshire council area, the others being Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, which is within the Central Scotland region, Rutherglen, within the Glasgow region, and Clydesdale, within the South Scotland region. Part of the Uddingston and Bellshill constituency includes parts of South Lanarkshire and is part of the Central Scotland region.

Covering the entirety of the large town of East Kilbride, the electoral Wards of the United Kingdom wards used in the creation of the constituency are:

Constituency profile

BBC profile for 2016 election:[3]

This constituency is based around Scotland's oldest new town - East Kilbride. Its post-war housing, built on former farm land, has attracted families who work in office-based centres and who commute into nearby Glasgow, 8 miles to the north west.

The area's Hairmyres Hospital was opened 10 years ago and was built with private finance initiative money. The constituency's good road and public transport links has attracted some big employers. These include HM Revenue and Customs, which has several large office in East Kilbride, although these are facing closure as the agency restructures its operations. The dairy company Robert Wiseman is also based in East Kilbride, and the town centre is occuped by a large shopping centre comprising six interlinked malls.

Labour's Andy Kerr represented the seat from the founding of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 until Linda Fabiani took it for the SNP in 2011.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1999 Andy Kerr Labour
2011 Linda Fabiani SNP
2021 Collette Stevenson

Election results

2020s

2021 Scottish Parliament election: East Kilbride[4][5]
Party Candidate Constituency Regional
Votes % ±% Votes % ±%
SNP Collette Stevenson 21,149 51.9 Decrease4.0 18,331 44.8 Decrease4.0
Labour Monique McAdams 12,477 30.6 Increase6.4 9,625 23.5 Increase1.1
Conservative Graham Simpson[lower-alpha 1] 5,923 14.5 Decrease2.4 7,127 17.4 Increase0.8
Liberal Democrats Paul McGarry 1,217 3.0 Increase0.1 932 2.3 Increase0.3
Scottish Green 2,903 7.1 Increase1.0
Alba 619 1.5 New
All for Unity 391 1.0 New
Scottish Family 278 0.7 New
Independent Green Voice 217 0.5 New
Reform UK 131 0.3 New
Abolish the Scottish Parliament 90 0.2 New
Freedom Alliance (UK) 86 0.2 New
Libertarian 74 0.2 New
UKIP 56 0.1 Decrease1.7
Independent Paddy Hogg 40 0.1 New
Majority 8,672 21.3 Decrease10.4
Valid Votes 40,766 40,900
Invalid Votes 157 47
Turnout 40,923 66.6 Increase9.7 40,947 66.6 Increase9.7
SNP hold Swing Decrease5.2
Notes
  1. ↑ Incumbent member on the party list, or for another constituency

2010s

2016 Scottish Parliament election: East Kilbride[6][7]
Party Candidate Constituency Regional
Votes % ±% Votes % ±%
SNP Linda Fabiani[lower-alpha 1] 19,371 55.9 Increase7.9 16,929 48.8 Increase2.4
Labour LizAnne Handibode 8,392 24.2 Decrease17.3 7,758 22.4 Decrease11.0
Conservative Graham Simpson 5,857 16.9 Increase9.3 5,755 16.6 Increase10.2
Scottish Green 2,127 6.1 Increase1.9
Liberal Democrats Paul McGarry 1,009 2.9 Increase1.3 681 2.0 Increase0.6
UKIP 640 1.8 Increase1.3
Solidarity 399 1.1 Increase0.8
Scottish Christian 254 0.7 Decrease0.4
RISE 113 0.3 New
Independent Deryck Beaumont 53 0.2 New
Majority 10,979 31.7 Increase25.2
Valid Votes 34,629 34,709
Invalid Votes 139 58
Turnout 34,768 56.9 Increase5.4 34,767 56.9 Increase5.4
SNP hold Swing Increase12.6
Notes
  1. ↑ Incumbent member for this constituency
2011 Scottish Parliament election: East Kilbride[8][9]
Party Candidate Constituency Regional
Votes % ±% Votes % ±%
SNP Linda Fabiani[lower-alpha 1] 14,359 48.0 N/A 13,906 46.4 N/A
Labour Andy Kerr[lower-alpha 2] 12,410 41.5 N/A 10,006 33.4 N/A
Conservative Graham Simpson 2,260 7.6 N/A 1,911 6.4 N/A
Liberal Democrats Douglas Herbison 468 1.6 N/A 422 1.4 N/A
Independent John Houston 414 1.4 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Scottish Green 1,259 4.2 N/A
All-Scotland Pensioners Party 855 2.9 N/A
BNP 256 0.8 N/A
Scottish Christian 320 1.1 N/A
Scottish Homeland Party 36 0.1 N/A
Scottish Socialist 98 0.3 N/A
Scottish Unionist 193 0.6 N/A
Socialist Labour 348 1.2 N/A
Solidarity 94 0.3 N/A
UKIP 142 0.5 N/A
Independent Hugh O'Donnell 70 0.2 N/A
Majority 1,949 6.5 N/A
Valid Votes 29,911 29,916
Invalid Votes 103 83
Turnout 30,014 51.5 N/A 29,999 51.5 N/A
SNP win (new boundaries)
Notes
  1. ↑ Incumbent member on the party list, or for another constituency
  2. ↑ Incumbent member for this constituency

2000s

2007 Scottish Parliament election: East Kilbride
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Andy Kerr 15,334 42.7 +2.1
SNP Linda Fabiani 13,362 37.2 +12.1
Conservative Graham Simpson 4,115 11.5 +0.4
Liberal Democrats Dave Clark 3,092 8.6 +2.2
Majority 1,972 5.5 -10.0
Turnout 35,903 53.6 +1.5
Labour hold Swing
2003 Scottish Parliament election: East Kilbride
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Andy Kerr 13,825 40.56 -7.82
SNP Linda Fabiani 8,544 25.07 -7.42
Conservative Grace Campbell 3,785 11.10 +0.29
Scottish Socialist Carolyn Leckie 2,736 8.03 New
Liberal Democrats Alex McKie 2,181 6.40 -1.74
Majority 5,281 15.49 -0.24
Turnout 34,087 52.06 -10.73
Labour hold Swing

1990s

1999 Scottish Parliament election: East Kilbride
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Andy Kerr 19,987 48.38 N/A
SNP Linda Fabiani 13,488 32.65 N/A
Conservative Craig Stevenson 4,465 10.81 N/A
Liberal Democrats Ewan Hawthorn 3,373 8.16 N/A
Majority 6,499 15.73 N/A
Turnout 41,313 62.79 N/A
Labour win (new seat)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Scottish Parliamentary Constituency (SPC) Population Estimates (2011 Data Zone based), National Records of Scotland; retrieved 6 May 2021 (accompanying summary notes)
  2. ↑ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived September 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "East Kilbride - Scottish Parliament constituency". BBC News. 2016.
  4. ↑ "Constituency Declaration of Results 2021 - East Kilbride". South Lanarkshire Council. 8 May 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "Regional Results 2021 - East Kilbride". South Lanarkshire Council. 8 May 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Return of constituency members 2016" (PDF). South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  7. ↑ "Return of regional members 2016" (PDF). South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  8. ↑ Statement of Persons Nomination Archived 5 August 2012 at archive.today South Lanarkshire Council
  9. ↑ "Return of constituency members 2011" (PDF). 6 May 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
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