Central Scotland

Central Scotland
Educated
1999
Regions
Falkirk North Lanarkshire East Ayrshire (parts until 2011) East Dunbartonshire (parts) South Lanarkshire (parts)
Seats
Scottish National Party : 9 Labor Party : 4 Conservative Party : 3

Central Scotland is one of the eight Scottish electoral regions for election to the Scottish Parliament . It was created on the basis of the Scotland Act of 1998 . The region includes the towns of Airdrie , Bellshill , Coatbridge , East Kilbride , Falkirk , Hamilton , Larkhall , Motherwell and Wishaw . The first elections took place during the parliamentary elections on May 6, 1999.

The Central Scotland region is bordered clockwise and starting in the north: Mid Scotland and Fife , Lothian , South Scotland , West Scotland and Glasgow .

Geographical breakdown

1999-2011

From 1999 to the revision of the constituencies in 2011, ten constituencies were combined in the Central Scotland region. In terms of naming and design, they corresponded to the constituencies of the British Parliament . Each constituency provided a representative determined by majority voting . In addition, seven additional members were elected.

Geographically, the electoral region of Central Scotland comprised the regions of Falkirk and North Lanarkshire and parts of South Lanarkshire (remaining parts of the Glasgow electoral region), East Ayrshire (remaining parts of South of Scotland) and East Dunbartonshire (remaining parts of West of Scotland).

Constituency	map	region
Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton North and Bellshill Hamilton South Kilmarnock and Loudoun Motherwell and Wishaw

2011–

In the course of the revision before the parliamentary elections in 2011, the constituencies and electoral regions were restructured. Parts of the south-west of the Central Scotland region were added to the South of Scotland region and several constituencies were newly cut and renamed. Parts of the East Ayrshire Council Area, which were formerly part of Central Scotland, were added to other electoral regions. According to the new division, the region only comprises nine constituencies.

Constituency	map	region
Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Falkirk East Falkirk West East Kilbride Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill

Election results

General election 1999

The turnout was 59.40%.

Results of the 1999 general election
Political party	be right	%	Seats	Add. Member
Labor Party	129,288	39.28	9	0
Scottish National Party	91,802	27.78	0	5
Conservative party	30,243	9.15	0	1
Non-party	27,700	8.38	1	0
Liberal Democrats	20,505	6.20	0	1
Socialist Labor Party	10,956	3.32	0	0
Scottish Green Party	5926	1.79	0	0
Scottish Socialist Party	5739	1.74	0	0
Scottish Unionist Party	2886	0.87	0	0
ProLife Alliance	2567	0.78	0	0
Scottish Families and Pensioners Party	1373	0.42	0	0
Natural Law Party	719	0.22	0	0
Independent progressive	248	0.08	0	0

Mandates
Constituency	Elected	Political party
Airdrie and Shotts	Karen Whitefield	Labor
Coatbridge and Chryston	Elaine Smith	Labor
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	Cathie Craigie	Labor
East Kilbride	Andy Kerr	Labor
Falkirk East	Cathy Peattie	Labor
Falkirk West	Dennis Canavan	independent
Hamilton North and Bellshill	Michael McMahon	Labor
Hamilton South	Tom McCabe	Labor
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Margaret Jamieson	Labor
Motherwell and Wishaw	Jack McConnell	Labor

Additional members
Political party	Surname
SNP	Alex Neil Andrew Wilson Michael Matheson Gil Paterson Linda Fabiani
Liberal Democrats	Donald Gorrie
Conservative	Lyndsay McIntosh

General election 2003

The turnout was 48.53%.

Results of the 2003 general election
Political party	be right	%	±	Seats	±	Add. Member	±
Labor Party	106,318	40.41	+1.13	9	0	0	0
Scottish National Party	59,274	22.53	−5.25	0	0	3	−2
Conservative party	24,121	9.17	+0.02	0	0	1	0
Scottish Socialist Party	19,016	7.23	+5.49	0	0	1	+1
Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party	17,146	6.52	-	0	-	1	+1
Liberal Democrats	15,494	5.89	−0.31	0	0	1	0
Scottish Green Party	12,248	4.66	+2.87	0	0	0	0
Socialist Labor Party	3855	1.47	−1.85	0	0	0	0
Scottish Unionist Party	2147	0.82	−0.05	0	0	0	0
Non-party	1265	0.48	-	1	0	0	0
Scottish People's Alliance	1192	0.45	-	0	0	0	0
UKIP	1009	0.38	-	0	0	0	0

Mandates
Constituency	Elected	Political party
Airdrie and Shotts	Karen Whitefield	Labor
Coatbridge and Chryston	Elaine Smith	Labor
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	Cathie Craigie	Labor
East Kilbride	Andy Kerr	Labor
Falkirk East	Cathy Peattie	Labor
Falkirk West	Dennis Canavan	independent
Hamilton North and Bellshill	Michael McMahon	Labor
Hamilton South	Tom McCabe	Labor
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Margaret Jamieson	Labor
Motherwell and Wishaw	Jack McConnell	Labor

Additional members
Political party	Surname
SNP	Alex Neil Michael Matheson Linda Fabiani
Liberal Democrats	Donald Gorrie
Conservative	Margaret Mitchell
Scottish Socialist	Carolyn Leckie
SSCUP	John Swinburne

General election 2007

The turnout was 50.49%. With this result, the Central Scotland region had the second lowest turnout after the Glasgow region.

Results of the 2007 general election
Political party	be right	%	±	Seats	±	Add. Member	±
Labor Party	112,596	39.6	−0.8	8th	−1	0	0
Scottish National Party	89.210	31.4	+8.8	2	+2	5	+2
Conservative party	24,253	8.5	−0.6	0	0	1	0
Liberal Democrats	14,648	5.2	−0.7	0	0	1	0
Scottish Green Party	7204	2.5	−2.1	0	0	0	0
Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party	7060	2.5	−4.0	0	0	0	−1
Scottish Christian Party	5575	2.0	-	0	-	0	-
Solidarity	5012	1.8	-	0	-	0	-
Christian Peoples Alliance	4617	1.6	-	0	-	0	-
British National Party	4125	1.4	-	0	-	0	-
Socialist Labor Party	2303	0.8	−0.7	0	0	0	0
Scottish Socialist Party	2188	0.8	−6.5	0	0	0	−1
Scottish Voice	1955	0.7	-	0	-	0	-
Scottish Unionist Party	1544	0.5	−0.3	0	0	0	0
Publican party	1500	0.5	-	0	0	0	0
UKIP	722	0.2	−0.1	0	0	0	0

Mandates
Constituency	Elected	Political party
Airdrie and Shotts	Karen Whitefield	Labor
Coatbridge and Chryston	Elaine Smith	Labor
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	Cathie Craigie	Labor
East Kilbride	Andy Kerr	Labor
Falkirk East	Cathy Peattie	Labor
Falkirk West	Michael Matheson	SNP
Hamilton North and Bellshill	Michael McMahon	Labor
Hamilton South	Tom McCabe	Labor
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Willie Coffey	SNP
Motherwell and Wishaw	Jack McConnell	Labor

Additional members
Political party	Surname
SNP	Alex Neil Jamie Hepburn Linda Fabiani John Wilson Christina McKelvie
Liberal Democrats	Hugh O'Donnell
Conservative	Margaret Mitchell

Parliamentary election 2011

The turnout was 48.0%. With this result, the Central Scotland region had the second lowest turnout after the Glasgow region.

Results of the 2011 general election
Political party	be right	%	±	Seats	±	Add. Member	±
Scottish National Party	108.261	46.4	+15.5	6th	+4	3	−2
Labor Party	82,459	35.3	−4.6	3	−5	3	+3
Conservative party	14,870	6.4	−1.0	0	0	1	0
All Scotland Pensioners Party	5793	2.5	−0.1	0	0	0	0
Scottish Green Party	5634	2.4	−0.1	0	0	0	0
Liberal Democrats	3318	1.4	−3.8	0	0	0	−1
Scottish Christian Party	3173	1.4	−0.7	0	0	0	0
Socialist Labor Party	2483	1.1	+0.3	0	0	0	0
British National Party	2214	0.9	−0.5	0	0	0	0
Scottish Unionist Party	1555	0.7	0	0	0	0	0
UKIP	1263	0.5	+0.3	0	0	0	0
Non-party	821	0.4	-	0	-	0	-
Scottish Socialist Party	820	0.4	−0.6	0	0	0	0
Solidarity	559	0.2	−1.5	0	0	0	0
Scottish Homeland Party	333	0.2	−1.5	0	0	0	0

Mandates
Constituency	Elected	Political party
Airdrie and Shotts	Alex Neil	SNP
Coatbridge and Chryston	Elaine Smith	Labor
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	Jamie Hepburn	SNP
East Kilbride	Linda Fabiani	SNP
Falkirk East	Angus MacDonald	SNP
Falkirk West	Michael Matheson	SNP
Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse	Christina McKelvie	SNP
Motherwell and Wishaw	John Pentland	Labor
Uddingston and Bellshill	Michael McMahon	Labor

Additional members
Political party	Surname
SNP	Richard Lyle John Wilson Clare Adamson
Labor	Siobhan McMahon Mark Griffin Margaret McCulloch
Conservative	Margaret Mitchell

General election 2016

Results of the 2016 general election
Political party	be right	%	±	Seats	±	Add. Member	±
Scottish National Party	129,082	47.7	+1.3	9	+3	0	−3
Labor Party	67.103	24.8	−10.5	0	−3	4th	+1
Conservative party	43,602	16.1	+9.7	0	0	3	+2
Scottish Green Party	12,722	4.7	+2.3	0	0	0	0
UKIP	6088	2.2	+1.7	0	0	0	0
Liberal Democrats	5015	1.9	+0.4	0	0	0	0
Solidarity	2684	1.0	+0.8	0	0	0	0
Scottish Christian Party	2314	0.9	−0.5	0	0	0	0
RISE - Scotland's Left Alliance	1636	0.6	+0.6	0	0	0	0
Non-party	460	0.2	-	0	-	0	-

Mandates
Constituency	Elected	Political party
Airdrie and Shotts	Alex Neil	SNP
Coatbridge and Chryston	Fulton MacGregor	SNP
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	Jamie Hepburn	SNP
East Kilbride	Linda Fabiani	SNP
Falkirk East	Angus MacDonald	SNP
Falkirk West	Michael Matheson	SNP
Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse	Christina McKelvie	SNP
Motherwell and Wishaw	Clare Adamson	SNP
Uddingston and Bellshill	Richard Lyle	SNP

Additional members
Political party	Surname
Labor	Richard Leonard Monica Lennon Mark Griffin Elaine Smith
Conservative	Margaret Mitchell Graham Simpson Alison Harris

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Statistical data of the Scottish Parliament ( Memento of December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Result list of the 1999 parliamentary elections
3. ↑ 2003 election results
4. ↑ 2007 election results
5. ↑ Statistical data on the 2011 election
6. ^ Result list of the 2011 parliamentary elections