Rutherglen and Hamilton West

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Rutherglen and
Hamilton West
Rutherglen and Hamilton West
Educated
2005
MP
Margaret Ferrier ( SNP )
Regions
South Lanarkshire

Rutherglen and Hamilton West is a constituency for the British House of Commons . It was re-formed in the course of the 2005 constituency reform from parts of the dissolved constituencies Hamilton South and Glasgow Rutherglen . Rutherglen and Hamilton West includes the northern areas of the Council Area South Lanarkshire with the eponymous towns of Rutherglen and Hamilton , with only the western part of Hamilton being covered. The constituency sends a representative.

Election results

General election 2005

Results of the general election 2005
Political party candidate be right %
Labor Thomas McAvoy 24,054 55.6
Liberal Democrats Ian Robertson 7942 18.4
SNP Margaret Park 6023 13.9
Conservative Peter Crerar 3621 8.4
Socialist Bill Bonnar 1164 2.7
UKIP Janice Murdoch 457 1.1

General election 2010

Results of the 2010 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Labor Tom Greatrex 28,566 60.8 +5.2
SNP Graeme Horne 7654 16.1 +2.2
Liberal Democrats Ian Robertson 5636 12.0 −6.4
Conservative Malcolm Macaskill 4540 9.7 +1.3
UKIP Janice Murdoch 675 1.4 +0.3

General election 2015

Results of the general election 2015
Political party candidate be right % ±
SNP Margaret Ferrier 30,279 52.6 +36.5
Labor Tom Greatrex 20,304 35.2 −25.6
Conservative Taylor Muir 4350 7.6 −2.1
UKIP Janice MacKay 1301 2.3 +0.9
Liberal Democrats Tony Hughes 1045 1.8 −10.2
Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol Yvonne Maclean 336 0.6 +0.6

General election 2017

Results of the 2017 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Labor Gerard Killen 19.101 37.5 +2.3
SNP Margaret Ferrier 18,836 37.0 −15.6
Conservative Ann Le Blond 9941 19.5 +12.4
Liberal Democrats Aileen Morton 2158 4.2 +2.4
UKIP Caroline Santos 465 0.9 −1.4
Non-party Andy Dixon 371 0.7 +0.7

General election 2019

Results of the 2019 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
SNP Margaret Ferrier 23,775
Labor Gerard Killen 18,545
Conservative Lynne Nailon 8,054
Liberal Democrats Mark McGeever 2,791
UKIP Janice MacKay 629

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Map of the constituency
  2. ^ Results of the general election 2005
  3. ^ Results of the 2010 general election
  4. ↑ a b c Results of the general election 2015