Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley

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Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley
Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley

South Scotland

Educated
2011
MP:
Willie Coffey ( SNP )

Willie Coffey

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
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
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%)

Individual evidence

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