West Renfrewshire (constituency, Scotland)

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West Renfrewshire
West Renfrewshire

West of Scotland

Educated
1999
Abolished
2011
Regions
Inverclyde
Renfrewshire

West Renfrewshire was a constituency for the Scottish Parliament . It was introduced in 1999 as one of nine constituencies in the West of Scotland constituency , which was redesigned and renamed West Scotland as part of the constituency revision in 2011 . Here the constituency of West Renfrewshire was abolished. He included areas of the Council Areas Inverclyde and Renfrewshire with the cities of Erskine and Port Glasgow and sent one MP. In the 2001 census survey, a total of 67,320 people lived within its borders.

Election results

General election 1999

Results of the 1999 general election
Political party candidate be right %
Labor Patricia Godman 12,708 37.3
SNP Colin Campbell 9815 28.8
Conservative Annabel Goldie 7243 21.3
Liberal Democrats Neal Ascherson 2659 7.8
Non-party Allan McGraw 1136 3.3
Social workers Patrick Clark 476 1.4
Turnout: 34,037 (64.89%)

General election 2003

Results of the 2003 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Labor Patricia Godman 9671 34.1 −3.2
SNP Bruce McFee 7179 25.4 −3.4
Conservative Annabel Goldie 6867 24.3 +3.0
Liberal Democrats Alison King 2902 10.3 +2.5
Socialist Gerry MaCartney 1683 6.0 +6.0
Turnout: 28,302 (55.53%)

General election 2007

Results of the 2007 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Labor Patricia Godman 10,467 35.9 +1.8
Conservative Annabel Goldie 8289 28.5 +4.2
SNP Bill Wilson 8167 28.0 +2.6
Liberal Democrats Simon Hutton 2206 7.6 −2.7
Turnout: 29,129 (57.36%)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Map of the constituency
  2. ↑ 2001 census
  3. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  4. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  5. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament