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.
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] |
It was then replaced by the Coatbridge & Chryston constituency.
Boundaries edit
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 edit
Election | Member | Party | |
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1983 | Tom Clarke | Labour | |
1997 | constituency abolished: see Coatbridge & Chryston and Strathkelvin & Bearsden |
Election results edit
Elections of the 1980s edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Tom Clarke | 20,642 | 54.2 | -8.0 | |
Conservative | Laurence Cameron | 8,378 | 22.0 | -7.9 | |
SDP | Rodney Ackland | 6,605 | 17.3 | New | |
SNP | George Lyon | 2,473 | 6.5 | -1.3 | |
Majority | 12,264 | 32.2 | -0.1 | ||
Turnout | 38,098 | 75.7 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Tom Clarke | 24,449 | 62.3 | +8.1 | |
Conservative | Gordon Lind | 6,166 | 15.7 | -6.3 | |
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 edit
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 edit
- ^ 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.