West Dunbartonshire (constituency)

West Dunbartonshire
Educated
1950; 2005
MP
Martin Docherty ( SNP )
Regions
West Dunbartonshire

West Dunbartonshire is a constituency for the British House of Commons . It was first formed in 1950 from the disbanded constituencies of Dunbartonshire and Dumbarton Burghs . West Dunbartonshire was dissolved before the 1983 general election. In the course of the 2005 constituency reform, the constituency was re-established. It includes areas of the defunct constituencies of Dumbarton and Clydebank and Milngavie and covers the entire council area of West Dunbartonshire . The constituency sends a representative.

Election results

General election 1950

Results of the general election in 1950
Political party	candidate	be right	%
Labor	Adam McKinlay	20,398	49.3
Conservative	RA Allan	19,785	47.8
Communist	F. Hart	1198	2.9

By-elections in 1950

With the death of Adam McKinlay , by-elections were required in the West Dunbartonshire constituency.

Results of the 1950 by-elections
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Tom Steele	20,367	50.4	+1.1
Conservative	RA Allan	20,074	49.6	+1.8

General election 1951

Results of the general election in 1951
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Tom Steele	21,799	51.3	+0.9
Conservative	PWN Fraser	19,292	45.4	−4.2
Liberal	Lawrence Lauderdale Maitland	1415	3.3	+3.3

General election 1955

Results of the general election in 1955
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Tom Steele	21,854	52.3	+1.0
Conservative	Lady Huggins	19.902	47.7	+2.3

General election 1959

Results of the general election in 1959
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Tom Steele	22,105	52.5	+0.2
Conservative	NM Glen	19,967	47.5	−0.2

General election 1964

Results of the 1964 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Tom Steele	21,079	50.8	−1.7
Conservative	PT Smollett	15,448	37.2	−10.3
SNP	A. Gray	5004	12.2	+12.1

General election 1966

Results of the 1966 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Tom Steele	21,636	52.3	+1.5
Conservative	W. Adams	13,724	33.2	−4.0
SNP	RO Campbell	6042	14.6	+2.5

General election 1970

Results of the 1970 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Ian Campbell	23.009	50.9	−1.4
Conservative	W. Adams	16,783	37.1	+3.9
SNP	RO Campbell	5414	12.0	−2.6

General election February 1974

Results of the February 1974 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Ian Campbell	26,247	39.6	−11.3
Conservative	Moira Carse	13,638	33.2	−3.9
SNP	A. Murray	11,144	27.2	+15.2

General election October 1974

Results of the October 1974 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Ian Campbell	15,511	38.2	−1.4
SNP	A. Murray	13,697	33.7	+6.5
Conservative	RR MacDonald	9421	23.2	−10.0
Liberal	JD Murricane	2029	5.0	+5.0

General election 1979

Results of the 1979 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Ian Campbell	21,166	48.4	+10.2
Conservative	J. Cameron Munro	14,709	33.7	+10.5
SNP	Stan Stratton	7835	17.9	−15.8

General election 2005

Results of the general election 2005
Political party	candidate	be right	%
Labor	John McFall	21,600	51.9
SNP	Tom Chalmers	9047	21.8
Liberal Democrats	Niall Walker	5999	14.4
Conservative	Campbell Murdoch	2679	6.4
Socialist	Les Robertson	1708	4.1
UKIP	Bryan Maher	354	0.9
Christian Vote	Marlon Dawson	202	0.5

General election 2010

Results of the 2010 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Gemma Doyle	25,905	61.3	+9.4
SNP	Graeme McCormick	8497	20.1	−1.7
Liberal Democrats	Helen Watt	3434	8.1	−6.3
Conservative	Martyn McIntyre	3242	7.7	+1.3
UKIP	Mitch Sorbie	683	1.6	+0.7
Socialist Labor	Katharine McGavigan	505	1.2	+1.2

General election 2015

Results of the general election 2015
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
SNP	Martin Docherty	30.198	59.0	+38.9
Labor	Gemma Doyle	16,027	31.3	−30.0
Conservative	Maurice Corry	3597	7.0	−0.7
Liberal Democrats	Aileen Morton	816	1.6	−6.5
Non-party	Claire Muir	503	1.0	+1.0

General election 2017

Results of the 2017 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
SNP	Martin Docherty	18,890	42.9	−16.1
Labor	Jean Anne Mitchell	16.602	37.7	+6.4
Conservative	Penny Hutton	7582	17.2	+10.2
Liberal Democrats	Rebecca Plenderleith	1009	2.3	+0.7

Individual evidence

1. ^ Map of the constituency
2. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1950 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ CR Dod, RP Dod: Dod's Parliamentary Companion , Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd., 1967, p. 429.
4. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1951 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1955 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1959 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Results of the 1964 general election ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Results of the 1966 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Results of the 1970 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Results of the February 1974 general election ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in October 1974 ( memento of the original from August 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Results of the 1979 general election ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Results of the lower house elections 2005 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ Results of the 2010 general election ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the general election 2015