Cunninghame South (UK Parliament constituency)
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Cunninghame South | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Cunninghame South in Scotland for the 2001 general election | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | North Ayrshire |
1983–2005 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Ayrshire Central Bute and Northern Ayrshire[1] |
Replaced by | North Ayrshire & Arran Central Ayrshire |
Cunninghame South was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster) from 1983 until 2005. It was represented by one Member of Parliament (MP) elected by the first-past-the-post system of election.
In 2005 a northern area of the constituency was merged with Cunninghame North to form North Ayrshire and Arran. The rest of the Cunninghame South constituency was merged with a northern area from Ayr and a small area from Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley to form Central Ayrshire.
The Cunninghame South constituency of the Scottish Parliament, which was created in 1999 with the same boundaries as the Westminster constituency, continues in existence unaltered.
Boundaries
[edit]The Cunninghame District electoral divisions of Irvine Central, Irvine South, and Kilwinning and Stevenston.
The constituency was created to cover part of the Cunninghame district of the Strathclyde region, and it included the town of Irvine. The rest of the district was covered by Cunninghame North.
In 1996 the Cunninghame district was reconstituted as the North Ayrshire council area, but the constituency boundaries remained unchanged until the seat disappeared in 2005.
Members of Parliament
[edit]Election | Member[2] | Party | Notes | |
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1983 | Constituency created, see Bute and Northern Ayrshire and Central Ayrshire | |||
1983 | David Lambie | Labour | Previous MP for Central Ayrshire | |
1992 | Brian Donohoe | Labour | Subsequent MP for Central Ayrshire | |
2005 | Constituency abolished, see Central Ayrshire and North Ayrshire and Arran |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1980s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Lambie | 19,344 | 54.1 | −0.2 | |
Conservative | Phil Gallie | 7,576 | 21.2 | −5.5 | |
Liberal | John Alan Boss | 6,370 | 17.8 | +9.2 | |
SNP | Kay Ullrich | 2,451 | 6.9 | −3.5 | |
Majority | 11,768 | 32.9 | |||
Turnout | 35,741 | 73.6 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Lambie | 22,728 | 60.8 | +6.7 | |
Conservative | Eric Gibson | 6,095 | 16.3 | −4.9 | |
Liberal | John Boss | 4,426 | 11.9 | −5.9 | |
SNP | Kay Ullrich | 4,115 | 11.0 | +4.1 | |
Majority | 16,633 | 46.6 | +13.7 | ||
Turnout | 37,364 | 75.0 | +1.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.8 |
Elections in the 1990s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Brian Donohoe | 19,687 | 52.9 | −7.9 | |
SNP | Ricky Bell | 9,007 | 24.2 | +13.2 | |
Conservative | Sebastian Leslie | 6,070 | 16.3 | 0.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian Ashley | 2,299 | 6.2 | −5.7 | |
Natural Law | William Jackson | 128 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 10,680 | 28.7 | −17.9 | ||
Turnout | 37,191 | 75.9 | +0.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Brian Donohoe | 22,233 | 62.7 | +9.8 | |
SNP | Margaret Burgess | 7,364 | 20.8 | −3.4 | |
Conservative | Pamela M. Paterson | 3,571 | 10.1 | −6.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Erlend Watson | 1,604 | 4.5 | −1.7 | |
Socialist Labour | Krishna Edwin | 494 | 1.4 | New | |
Referendum | Allan Martlew | 178 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 14,869 | 41.9 | +13.2 | ||
Turnout | 35,444 | 71.5 | −4.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 2000s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Brian Donohoe | 16,424 | 58.4 | −4.3 | |
SNP | Bill Kidd | 5,194 | 18.5 | −2.3 | |
Conservative | Pamela Paterson | 2,782 | 9.9 | −0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Boyd | 2,094 | 7.4 | +2.9 | |
Scottish Socialist | Rosemary Byrne | 1,233 | 4.4 | New | |
Socialist Labour | Bobby Cochrane | 382 | 1.4 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 11,230 | 39.9 | −2.0 | ||
Turnout | 28,109 | 56.2 | −15.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
References
[edit]- ^ "'Cunninghame South', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1983
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 2005
- Politics of North Ayrshire
- Ardrossan−Saltcoats−Stevenston
- Kilwinning
- Irvine, North Ayrshire