Coatbridge and Chryston (UK Parliament constituency)
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Coatbridge and Chryston | |
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Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Monklands |
1997–2005 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Monklands West |
Replaced by | Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill |
Coatbridge and Chryston was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) from 1997 until 2005.
It was then replaced by the Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill constituency.
Boundaries
The Monklands District electoral divisions of Coatbridge North and East, and Coatbridge South; and the Strathkelvin District electoral division of Chryston.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1997 | Tom Clarke | Labour | |
2005 | constituency abolished: see Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill |
Election results
Elections of the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Tom Clarke | 19,807 | 65.3 | −3.0 | |
SNP | Peter Kearney | 4,493 | 14.8 | −2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alistair Tough | 2,293 | 7.6 | +2.2 | |
Conservative | Walter Ross-Taylor | 2,171 | 7.2 | −1.4 | |
Scottish Socialist | Lynn Sheridan | 1,547 | 5.1 | New | |
Majority | 15,314 | 50.5 | -0.8 | ||
Turnout | 30,311 | 58.1 | −14.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections of the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Tom Clarke | 25,694 | 68.3 | ||
SNP | Brian Nugent | 6,402 | 17.0 | ||
Conservative | Andrew Wauchope | 3,216 | 8.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Morag E. Daly | 2,048 | 5.4 | ||
Referendum | Bernard Bowsley | 249 | 0.7 | ||
Majority | 19,292 | 51.3 | |||
Turnout | 37,609 | 72.3 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
References
- Specific
- ^ "Election Data 2001". 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.
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- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 2005
- Politics of North Lanarkshire
- Coatbridge