Dumbarton (constituency, Scotland)

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Dumbarton
Dumbarton

West Scotland

Educated
1999
MP
Jackie Baillie ( Labor )

Jackie Baillie

Regions
Argyll and Bute
West Dunbartonshire

Dumbarton is a constituency for the Scottish Parliament . It was introduced in 1999 as one of nine constituencies in the West of Scotland constituency , which was redesigned and renamed West Scotland as part of the constituency revision in 2011 . Small changes were made to the northwest borders of the constituency of Dumbarton. The constituency includes parts of the Council Areas Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire . The largest cities within the borders are Alexandria , Dumbarton and Helensburgh . The constituency sends a representative.

The constituency covers an area of ​​657.2 km 2 . In the 2011 census survey, a total of 71,957 people lived within its borders.

Election results

General election 1999

Results of the 1999 general election
Political party candidate be right %
Labor Jackie Baillie 15,181 43.8
SNP Lloyd Quinan 10,434 30.0
Conservative Donald Reece 5060 14.5
Liberal Democrats Paul Coleshill 4035 11.6
Turnout: 34,699 (61.86%)

General election 2003

Results of the 2003 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Labor Jackie Baillie 12,154 42.2 −1.6
SNP Iain Docherty 5542 19.2 −10.8
Liberal Democrats Eric Thompson 4455 15.5 +3.9
Conservative Murray Tosh 4178 14.5 0.0
Socialist Les Robertson 2494 8.7 +8.7
Turnout: 28,823 (51.86%)

General election 2007

Results of the 2007 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Labor Jackie Baillie 11,635 38.7 −3.5
SNP Graeme McCormick 10,024 33.4 +14.2
Conservative Brian Pope 4701 15.6 +1.1
Liberal Democrats Alex Mackie 3385 11.3 −4.2
Scottish Jacobite Party John Black 309 1.0 +1.0
Turnout: 30,054 (55.63%)

Parliamentary election 2011

Results of the 2011 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Labor Jackie Baillie 12,562 44.1 +5.4
SNP Iain Robertson 10,923 38.3 +5.1
Conservative Graham Smith 3395 11.9 −3.7
Liberal Democrats Helen Watt 858 3.0 −8.3
Non-party George Rice 770 2.7 +2.7
Turnout: 28,508 (53.32%)

General election 2016

Results of the 2016 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Labor Jackie Baillie 13,522 40.2 −3.8
SNP Gail Robertson 13,413 39.9 +1.6
Conservative Maurice Corry 4,891 14.6 +2.6
Liberal Democrats Aileen Morton 1,131 3.4 +0.4
Non-party Andrew Muir 641 1.9 +1.9
Turnout: (61.0%)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Map of the constituency
  2. ↑ 2011 census
  3. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  4. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  5. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  6. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  7. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament