East Kilbride (Scottish Parliament constituency)

East Kilbride
Burgh constituency
for the Scottish Parliament
The 2011 version of East Kilbride, shown within the then Central Scotland electoral region, and the region shown within Scotland
Electorate60,763 (2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created1999
PartyScottish National Party
MSPCollette Stevenson
Council areaSouth Lanarkshire

East Kilbride (Gaelic: Cille Bhrìghde an Ear) is a burgh constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of South Lanarkshire.[2] Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of ten constituencies in the South Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.[3]

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

Electoral region

See also: South Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

Following the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries in 2025, East Kilbride was moved from the Central Scotland electoral region into the South Scotland Region. The other nine constituencies of this region are: Ayr; Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley; Clydesdale; Dumfriesshire; Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire; Galloway and West Dumfries; Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse; Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley; and Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale.[3][4] The region covers the whole of the council areas of Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, and South Ayrshire; and parts of the council areas of East Ayrshire, Midlothian, and South Lanarkshire.[5] By population it is now the largest of Scotland's eight electoral regions.[3]

Prior to the 2025 review, East Kilbride formed part of the Central Scotland region; the review saw this replaced by a region entitled Central Scotland and Lothians West. The other eight constituencies of this region were: 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 covered 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

East Kilbride constituency is one of five covering the South Lanarkshire council area. Of the five, Clydesdale and Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse are also now within the South Scotland region. Rutherglen is within the Glasgow region; Uddingston and Bellshill is part of the Central Scotland and Lothians West region.[6]

The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing UK House of Commons constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish House of Commons constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.[7] The seat remained unchanged following the Second Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries undertaken by Boundaries Scotland ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.[8]

Covering the entirety of the large town of East Kilbride, the electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council used in the current creation of East Kilbride are:[2]

Constituency profile

BBC profile for 2016 election:[9]

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 occupied 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

Election Member Party
1999 Andy Kerr Labour
2011 Linda Fabiani SNP
2021 Collette Stevenson

Election results

2020s

2026 Scottish Parliament election: East Kilbride
Party Candidate Constituency Regional
Votes % ±% Votes % ±%
SNP Collette Stevenson
Labour Joe Fagan
Conservative Brian Whittle
Liberal Democrats Leigh Butler
Reform UK Timothy Kelly
Majority
Valid Votes
Invalid Votes
Turnout
2021 Scottish Parliament election: East Kilbride[10][11]
Party Candidate Constituency Regional
Votes % ±% Votes % ±%
SNP Collette Stevenson 21,149 51.9 4.0 18,331 44.8 4.0
Labour Monique McAdams 12,477 30.6 6.4 9,625 23.5 1.1
Conservative Graham Simpson[a] 5,923 14.5 2.4 7,127 17.4 0.8
Liberal Democrats Paul McGarry 1,217 3.0 0.1 932 2.3 0.3
Green 2,903 7.1 1.0
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
Scottish Libertarian 74 0.2 New
UKIP 56 0.1 1.7
Independent Paddy Hogg 40 0.1 New
Majority 8,672 21.3 10.4
Valid Votes 40,766 40,900
Invalid Votes 157 47
Turnout 40,923 66.6 9.7 40,947 66.6 9.7
SNP hold Swing 5.2
Notes
  1. ^ Incumbent member on the party list, or for another constituency

2010s

2016 Scottish Parliament election: East Kilbride[12][13]
Party Candidate Constituency Regional
Votes % ±% Votes % ±%
SNP Linda Fabiani[a] 19,371 55.9 7.9 16,929 48.8 2.4
Labour LizAnne Handibode 8,392 24.2 17.3 7,758 22.4 11.0
Conservative Graham Simpson 5,857 16.9 9.3 5,755 16.6 10.2
Green 2,127 6.1 1.9
Liberal Democrats Paul McGarry 1,009 2.9 1.3 681 2.0 0.6
UKIP 640 1.8 1.3
Solidarity 399 1.1 0.8
Scottish Christian 254 0.7 0.4
RISE 113 0.3 New
Independent Deryck Beaumont 53 0.2 New
Majority 10,979 31.7 25.2
Valid Votes 34,629 34,709
Invalid Votes 139 58
Turnout 34,768 56.9 5.4 34,767 56.9 5.4
SNP hold Swing 12.6
Notes
  1. ^ Incumbent member for this constituency
2011 Scottish Parliament election: East Kilbride[14][15]
Party Candidate Constituency Regional
Votes % ±% Votes % ±%
SNP Linda Fabiani[a] 14,359 48.0 N/A 13,906 46.4 N/A
Labour Andy Kerr[b] 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
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)

References

Citations

  1. ^ Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 25.
  2. ^ a b Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 141.
  3. ^ a b c Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 28.
  4. ^ Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 138.
  5. ^ Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 143.
  6. ^ Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 140-143.
  7. ^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived September 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 54-67.
  9. ^ "East Kilbride - Scottish Parliament constituency". BBC News. 2016.
  10. ^ "Constituency Declaration of Results 2021 - East Kilbride". South Lanarkshire Council. 8 May 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  11. ^ "Regional Results 2021 - East Kilbride". South Lanarkshire Council. 8 May 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  12. ^ "Return of constituency members 2016" (PDF). South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  13. ^ "Return of regional members 2016" (PDF). South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  14. ^ Statement of Persons Nomination Deprecated link archived 5 August 2012 at archive.today South Lanarkshire Council
  15. ^ "Return of constituency members 2011" (PDF). 6 May 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2021.

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