Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley
Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley |
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Educated |
2011 |
MP: |
Willie Coffey ( SNP ) |
Regions |
East Ayrshire |
Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley is a constituency for the Scottish Parliament . It was introduced in the course of the constituencies' revision in 2011 as one of nine constituencies in the electoral region of South of Scotland . It covers much of the former constituency of Kilmarnock and Loudoun , including the towns of Kilmarnock and Stewarton in the East Ayrshire Council Area . The constituency sends a representative.
The constituency covers an area of 375.1 km 2 . In the 2011 census survey, a total of 82,275 people lived within its borders.
Election results
Parliamentary election 2011
Results of the 2011 general election | |||
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Political party | candidate | be right | % |
SNP | Willie Coffey | 16,964 | 53.3 |
Labor | Matt McLaughlin | 10,971 | 34.4 |
Conservative | Grant Fergusson | 3309 | 10.4 |
Liberal Democrats | Robbie Simpson | 614 | 1.9 |
Turnout: 31,858 (50.36%) |
General election 2016
Results of the 2016 general election | ||||
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Political party | candidate | be right | % | ± |
SNP | Willie Coffey | 19,047 | 55.4 | +2.1 |
Labor | Dave Meechan | 7,853 | 22.8 | −11.6 |
Conservative | Brian Whittle | 6,597 | 19.2 | +8.8 |
Liberal Democrats | Rebecca Plenderleith | 888 | 2.6 | +0.7 |
Turnout: 34,385 (54.9%) |