Central Ayrshire

Central Ayrshire
Educated
1950; 2005
MP
Philippa Whitford ( SNP )
Regions
North Ayrshire , South Ayrshire

Central Ayrshire is a constituency for the British House of Commons . It was created in the course of the constituency reform in 1950 and existed until its abolition in 1983. The area was essentially taken over into the newly created constituency of Cunninghame South . In 2005 this constituency was dissolved again in favor of Central Ayrshire.

Central Ayrshire covers areas of the Council Areas South Ayrshire and North Ayrshire . It includes the towns of Irvine , Troon and Prestwick . The constituency sends a representative.

Election results

General election 1950

Results of the general election in 1950
Political party	candidate	be right	%
Labor	Archibald Manuel	18,792	49.0
unionist	WR Milligan	16,830	43.9
Liberal	C. Jack Coleman	2760	7.2

General election 1951

Results of the general election in 1951
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Archibald Manuel	21.003	52.1	+3.1
unionist	WR Milligan	19,310	47.9	+4.0

General election 1955

Results of the general election in 1955
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
unionist	Douglas Spencer-Nairn	19,713	50.2	+2.3
Labor	Archibald Manuel	19,546	49.8	−2.3

General election 1959

Results of the general election in 1959
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Archibald Manuel	21,901	52.0	+2.8
unionist	Douglas Spencer-Nairn	20,225	48.0	−2.8

General election 1964

Results of the 1964 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Archibald Manuel	23,999	56.4	+4.4
unionist	GR Rickman	18,523	43.6	−4.4

General election 1966

Results of the 1966 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Archibald Manuel	24,035	57.7	+1.3
Conservative	YES Corrie	17,637	42.3	−1.3

General election 1970

Results of the 1970 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	David Lambie	24,536	52.4	−5.3
Conservative	I. Long	19,569	41.8	−0.5
SNP	A. MacDonald	2383	5.1	+5.1
Non-party	T. Menzies	339	0.7	+0.7

General election February 1974

Results of the February 1974 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	David Lambie	23,639	49.0	−3.4
Conservative	R. Gavin	17,362	36.0	−5.8
SNP	L Anderson	7255	15.0	+9.9

General election October 1974

Results of the October 1974 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	David Lambie	21,188	45.1	−3.9
Conservative	M. Carse	11,633	24.8	−11.2
SNP	L. Anderson	11,533	24.5	+9.5
Liberal	J. Watts	2640	5.6	+5.6

General election 1979

Results of the 1979 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	David Lambie	27,438	51.1	+6.0
Conservative	R. Wilkinson	15,734	29.3	+4.5
SNP	I. MacDonald	5596	10.4	−14.1
Liberal	I. Clarkson	4896	9.1	+3.5

General election 2005

Results of the general election 2005
Political party	candidate	be right	%
Labor	Brian Donohoe	19,905	46.4
Conservative	Garry Clark	9482	22.1
Liberal Democrats	Iain Kennedy	6881	16.1
SNP	Jahangir Hanif	4969	11.6
Socialist	Denise Morton	820	1.9
Socialist Labor	Robert Cochrane	468	1.1
UKIP	Jim Groves	346	0.8

General election 2010

Results of the 2010 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Brian Donohoe	20,950	47.7	+1.3
Conservative	Maurice Golden	8943	20.4	−1.7
SNP	John Mullen	8364	19.1	+7.5
Liberal Democrats	Andrew Chamberlain	5236	11.9	−4.2
Socialist Labor	James McDaid	422	1.0	−0.1

General election 2015

Results of the general election 2015
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
SNP	Philippa Whitford	26,999	53.2	+34.1
Labor	Brian Donohoe	13,410	26.4	−21.3
Conservative	Marc Hope	8803	17.3	−3.1
Liberal Democrats	Andrew Chamberlain	917	1.8	−10.1
Green	Veronika Tudhope	645	1.3	+1.3

General election 2017

Results of the 2017 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
SNP	Philippa Whitford	16,771	37.2	−16.0
Conservative	Caroline Hollins Martin	15,504	34.4	+17.1
Labor	Nairn McDonald	11,762	26.1	−0.3
Liberal Democrats	Tom Inglis	1050	2.3	+0.5

Individual evidence

1. ^ Map of the constituency
2. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1950 ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1951 ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1955 ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1959 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Results of the 1964 general election ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Results of the 1966 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Results of the 1970 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Results of the February 1974 general election ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in October 1974 ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Results of the 1979 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Results of the lower house elections 2005 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Results of the 2010 general election ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the general election 2015