Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Kilmarnock and Loudoun (UK Parliament constituency).

Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Former county constituency
for the Scottish Parliament
Kilmarnock and Loudoun shown within the Central Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Former constituency
Created1999
Abolished2011
Council areaEast Ayrshire (part)
Replaced byKilmarnock and Irvine Valley

Kilmarnock and Loudoun was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the First past the post method of election. Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it was also one of ten constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region, which elected seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

The constituency was abolished ahead of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, with the area covered being split largely forming the new seat of Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley.

Electoral region

See also: Central Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

The region covered all of the Falkirk council area, all of the North Lanarkshire council area, part of the South Lanarkshire council area, part of the East Ayrshire council area and a small part of the East Dumbartonshire council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area

The constituency was created ahead of the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999. As with all seats contested at this election, it used the name and boundaries of an existing UK House of Commons of Commons constituency: Kilmarnock and Loudoun. constituency. The Westminster constituency was created during the period of when two tiers of local government were in place (the regions and districts of Scotland, which existed between 1975 and 1996) when there was a Kilmarnock and Loudoun district of the Strathclyde region. In 1996 regions and districts were replaced with unitary council areas. Ahead of the 2005 United Kingdom general election the House of Commons constituencies in Scotland were altered, whilst the existing Scottish Parliament constituencies were initially retained, and there is now no longer any link between the two sets of boundaries.[1]

The Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency covered a northern portion of the East Ayrshire council area. The rest of the East Ayrshire area was covered by Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, which also covered a southern portion of the South Ayrshire council area. Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley was within the South of Scotland electoral region.

Boundary review

See Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions from 2011

Following their First Periodic review into constituencies to the Scottish Parliament in time for the 2011 elections, the Boundary Commission for Scotland recommended the creating of a new seat to be known as Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, which was formed from the Kilmarnock, Annick, and Irvine Valley electoral areas of East Ayrshire.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election Member Party
1999 Margaret Jamieson Labour
2007 Willie Coffey Scottish National Party
2011 Constituency abolished; see Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley

Election results

2007 Parliamentary election

2007 Scottish Parliament election: Kilmarnock and Loudoun[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SNP Willie Coffey 14,297 42.76 +6.52
Labour Margaret Jamieson 12,955 38.75 −1.33
Conservative Janette McAlpine 4,127 12.34 +1.88
Liberal Democrats Ron Aitken 2,056 6.15 +1.17
Majority 1,342 4.01 N/A
Turnout 34,453 56.68 +4.75
SNP gain from Labour Swing

2003 Parliamentary election

2003 Scottish Parliament election: Kilmarnock and Loudoun[4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Margaret Jamieson 12,633 40.08 −4.00
SNP Daniel Coffey 11,423 36.24 −0.83
Conservative Robin Traquair 3,296 10.46 −1.20
Liberal Democrats Ian Gibson 1,571 4.98 −2.21
Scottish Socialist Colin Rutherford 1,421 4.51 New
Independent Mary Anderson 404 1.28 New
Independent Matthew Donnelly 402 1.28 New
Scottish People's Lyndsay McIntosh 371 1.18 N/A
Majority 1,210 3.84 −3.17
Turnout 31,705 51.93
Labour hold Swing

1999 Parliamentary election

1999 Scottish Parliament election: Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Margaret Jamieson 17,345 44.08 N/A
SNP Alex Neil 14,585 37.07 N/A
Conservative Lyndsay McIntosh 4,589 11.66 N/A
Liberal Democrats John Stewart 2,830 7.19 N/A
Majority 2,760 7.01 N/A
Turnout 39,349 N/A
Labour win (new seat)

Footnotes

  1. ^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 2007-09-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Regional votes 2007
  3. ^ Constituency votes 2007
  4. ^ Regional results 2003
  5. ^ Constituency votes 2003
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.