Motherwell and Wishaw (constituency, Scotland)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Motherwell and Wishaw
Motherwell and Wishaw

Central Scotland

Educated
1999
MP
Clare Adamson ( SNP )

Clare Adamson

Regions
North Lanarkshire

Motherwell and Wishaw is a constituency for the Scottish Parliament . It was introduced in 1999 as one of ten constituencies in the electoral region of Central Scotland . It includes areas of the North Lanarkshire Council Area . Motherwell and Wishaw are the two major cities within the constituency. In the course of the revision of the constituencies in 2011, minor changes were made to the border with the neighboring constituencies. The constituency sends a representative.

The constituency covers an area of ​​81.8 km 2 . In the 2011 census survey, a total of 74,624 people lived within its borders.

Election results

General election 1999

Results of the 1999 general election
Political party candidate be right %
Labor Jack McConnell 13,925 46.0
SNP Jim McGuigan 8879 29.2
Conservative William Gibson 3694 12.2
Socialist Labor John Milligan 1941 6.4
Liberal Democrats Rodger Spillane 1895 6.3
Turnout: 30,364 (57.14%)

General election 2003

Results of the 2003 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Labor Jack McConnell 13,739 54.1 +8.1
SNP Lloyd Quinan 4480 17.7 −11.5
Conservative Mark Nolan 2542 10.0 −2.2
Socialist John Milligan 1961 7.7 +1.3
Scottish Senior Citizens John Swinburne 1597 6.3 +6.3
Liberal Democrats Keith Legg 1069 4.2 −2.1
Turnout: 25,388 (49.03%)

General election 2007

Results of the 2007 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Labor Jack McConnell 12,574 48.1 −6.0
SNP Marion Fellows 6636 25.4 +7.7
Conservative Diane Huddleston 1990 7.6 −2.4
Scottish Senior Citizens John Swinburne 1702 6.1 −0.2
Liberal Democrats Stuart Douglas 1570 6.0 +1.8
Scottish Christian Thomas Selfridge 1491 5.7 +5.7
Anti-Trident Party Richard Leat 187 0.7 +0.7
Turnout: 26,150 (48.08%)

Parliamentary election 2011

Results of the 2011 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Labor John Pentland 10,731 43.8 −4.3
SNP Clare Adamson 10.126 41.4 +16.0
Conservative Robert Burgess 1753 7.2 −0.4
Scottish Senior Citizens John Swinburne 945 3.9 −2.2
Scottish Christian Thomas Selfridge 547 2.2 −3.5
Liberal Democrats Beverley Hope 367 1.5 −4.5
Turnout: 24,451 (45.61%)

General election 2016

Results of the 2016 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
SNP Clare Adamson 15,291 52.5 +11.1
Labor John Pentland 9,068 31.1 −12.7
Conservative Meghan Gallacher 3,991 13.7 +6.5
Liberal Democrats Yvonne Finlayson 761 2.6 +1.1
Turnout: (51.0%)

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