East Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 55°58′34″N 4°12′40″W / 55.976°N 4.211°W / 55.976; -4.211

East Dunbartonshire
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of East Dunbartonshire in Scotland.
Local government in EastDunbartonshire	East Dunbartonshire
Current constituency
Created	2005
Member of parliament	John Nicolson (SNP)
Number of members	One
Created from	Strathkelvin & Bearsden Clydebank & Milngavie Coatbridge & Chryston
1950–1983
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	County constituency
Replaced by	Strathkelvin & Bearsden and Cumbernauld and Kilsyth^[1]
Created from	Dunbartonshire Dumbarton Burghs
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Scotland

East Dunbartonshire is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The current constituency was first used in the 2005 general election. There was also an earlier East Dunbartonshire constituency, from 1950 to 1983.

Boundaries

Council areas
grouped by the Fifth Periodical Review

East Dunbartonshire and North Lanarkshire

Current

The existing constituency was created as a result of the Fifth Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, as one of two covering the East Dunbartonshire council area and one of five covering the East Dunbartonshire council area and the North Lanarkshire council area.^[2]

The East Dunbartonshire constituency is entirely within the East Dunbartonshire council area, and the rest of the council area is covered by the Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East constituency, which also covers part of the North Lanarkshire council area. The rest of the North Lanarkshire area is covered by the Airdrie and Shotts, Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill, and Motherwell and Wishaw constituencies.^[2]

The East Dunbartonshire constituency replaced most of the Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency and some of the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency and some of the Coatbridge and Chryston constituency.^[2]

The Fifth Periodical Review did not affect the boundaries of Scottish Parliament constituencies, which retain the boundaries of Westminster constituencies prior to implementation of the results of the review.

Historic

The historic constituency was created under the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949, and first used in the 1950 general election.^[3]

As created in 1950, the constituency was one of two covering the county of Dunbarton. The other was West Dunbartonshire. The two new constituencies replaced the earlier constituencies of Dunbartonshire and Dumbarton Burghs.^[3]

East Dunbartonshire covered the Cumbernauld, Kirkintilloch, and New Kilpatrick districts of the county and the burghs of Clydebank, Kirkintilloch, and Milngavie.^[3]

For the 1951 general election the constituency boundaries were adjusted to take account of a change to the boundaries of the burgh of Clydebank.^[3]

The results of the First Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission were implemented for the 1955 general election, but there was no change to the boundaries of East Dunbartonshire, and the boundaries of 1951 and 1955 were used also in the general elections of 1959, 1964, 1966 and 1970.^[3]

The results of the Second Periodical Review were implemented for the February 1974 general election. The review took account of population growth in the county of Dunbarton, caused by overspill from the city of Glasgow into the new town of Cumbernauld and elsewhere, and East Dunbartonshire became one of three constituencies covering the county. East Dunbartonshire now covered the Kirkintilloch and Cumbernauld districts of the county and the burghs of Bearsden, Cumbernauld, and Kirkintilloch, but it lost Clydebank and Milngavie to the new constituency of Central Dunbartonshire. These boundaries were used also for the general elections of October 1974 and 1979.

In 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, Scottish counties were abolished in favour of regions and districts and islands council areas, and the county of Dunbarton was divided between several districts of the new region of Strathclyde. The Third Periodical Review took account of new local government boundaries, and the results were implemented for the 1983 general election.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1950–1983

	Member^[4]	Party
1950	David Kirkwood	Labour
1951	Cyril Bence	Labour
1970	Hugh McCartney	Labour
Feb 1974	Barry Henderson	Conservative
Oct 1974	Margaret Bain	SNP
1979	Norman Hogg	Labour
1983	constituency abolished

MPs since 2005

Election		Member^[4]	Party
2005		constituency recreated
	2005	Jo Swinson	Liberal Democrat
	2015	John Nicolson	SNP

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: East Dunbartonshire^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	John Nicolson	22,093	40.3	+29.8
	Liberal Democrat	Jo Swinson^[7]	19,926	36.3	-2.4
	Labour	Amanjit Jhund^[8]	6,754	12.3	−21.8
	Conservative	Andrew Polson	4,727	8.6	−6.9
	Scottish Green	Ross Greer	804	1.5	N/A
	UKIP	Wilfred Arasaratnam^[9]	567	1.0	−0.1
Majority			2,167	3.9	n/a
Turnout			54,871	81.9¹	+6.7
	SNP gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing	+16.0

¹ This was the highest turnout in the May 2015 General Election. ^[10]

General Election 2010: East Dunbartonshire^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	Jo Swinson	18,551	38.7	−3.1
	Labour	Mary Galbraith	16,367	34.1	+1.0
	Conservative	Mark Nolan	7,431	15.5	−1.0
	SNP	Iain White	5,054	10.5	+4.7
	UKIP	James Beeley	545	1.1	+1.1
Majority			2,184	4.6
Turnout			47,948	75.2	+2.1
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	−2.1

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: East Dunbartonshire^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	Jo Swinson	19,533	41.8	+14.7
	Labour	John Lyons	15,472	33.1	−0.2
	Conservative	David Jack	7,708	16.5	−6.0
	SNP	Chris Sagan	2,716	5.8	−8.9
	Scottish Green	Stuart Callison	876	1.9	+1.9
	Scottish Socialist	Pamela Page	419	0.9	−1.5
Majority			4,061	8.7
Turnout			46,724	73.1	+10.1
	Liberal Democrat gain from Labour		Swing	+7.4

The constituency of 1950 to 1983 has an unusual electoral history, in that in two consecutive general elections it was gained by the party in third place at the previous election. In October 1974 the SNP leapfrogged Labour to defeat the Conservatives, and in 1979 Labour leapfrogged the Conservatives to beat the SNP. Furthermore, the constituency went the opposite way to the nation in two consecutive changes of government. In February 1974, the Conservatives gained it from Labour, though losing nationally, while in 1979 Labour regained the seat from the SNP, though losing nationally. Apart from Ynys Môn in Wales, East Dunbartonshire is the only seat to have been be represented by the three main parties and the nationalists.

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: East Dunbartonshire^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Norman Hogg	23,268	37.9	+7.6
	Conservative	Michael William Hirst	20,944	34.1	+1.9
	SNP	Margaret Anne Bain	12,654	20.6	−10.6
	Liberal	R Waddell	4,600	7.5	+0.2
Majority			2,324	3.8
Turnout			61,466	83.9
	Labour gain from SNP		Swing

The October 1974 result was particularly unusual since it produced both the smallest majority in the country at that election, and the closest three-way result since 1945.

General Election October 1974: East Dunbartonshire^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Margaret Anne Bain	15,551	31.2	+8.9
	Conservative	James Stewart Barry Henderson	15,529	31.2	−5.5
	Labour	Edward McGarry	15,122	30.3	+0.7
	Liberal	J.A. Thompson	3,636	7.3	−4.1
Majority			22	0.0
Turnout			49,838	80.6	−4.4
	SNP gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election February 1974: East Dunbartonshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	James Stewart Barry Henderson	19,092	36.7	−0.3
	Labour	Edward McGarry	15,416	29.6	−15.0
	SNP	Margaret Anne Bain	11,635	22.3	+11.0
	Liberal	J. Cameron	5,936	11.4	+6.6
Majority			3,676	7.1
Turnout			52,079	85.0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1970: Dunbartonshire East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Hugh McCartney	32,527	44.6
	Conservative	James Stewart Barry Henderson	26,972	37.0
	SNP	Gordon Murray	8,257	11.3
	Liberal	James G Brown	3,460	4.8
	Communist	James Reid	1,656	2.3
Majority			5,555	7.6
Turnout			72,872	77.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Dunbartonshire East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Cyril Raymond Bence	32,988	52.15
	Conservative	Kenneth B Miller	23,001	36.36
	SNP	William Johnston	5,715	9.04
	Communist	James Reid	1,548	2.45
Majority			9,987	15.79
Turnout				80.62
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1964: Dunbartonshire East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Cyril Raymond Bence	32,948	55.60
	Conservative	T Warren Strachan	25,137	42.42
	Communist	James Reid	1,171	1.98
Majority			7,811	13.18
Turnout				81.70
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Dunbartonshire East^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Cyril Raymond Bence	27,942	51.05
	Conservative	David Colville Anderson	24,593	44.93
	Communist	Arnold E Henderson	2,200	4.02
Majority			3,349	6.12
Turnout				84.26
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Dunbartonshire East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Cyril Raymond Bence	24,216	48.68
	Conservative	Norman Macleod Glen	23,086	46.40
	Communist	Arnold E Henderson	2,448	4.92
Majority			1,130	2.27
Turnout				81.55
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Dunbartonshire East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Cyril Raymond Bence	26,678	51.22
	Conservative	William Stephen Ian Whitelaw	23,252	44.64
	Communist	Arnold E Henderson	2,158	4.14
Majority			3,426	6.58
Turnout				86.83
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1950: Dunbartonshire East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Kirkwood	25,943	52.7	N/A
	Conservative	William Stephen Ian Whitelaw	21,367	43.4	N/A
	Liberal	Charles E Forrester	1,952	4.0	N/A
Majority			4,576	9.3	N/A
Turnout			49,262	86.0	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

Notes and references

↑ "'Dunbartonshire East', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
1 2 3 Boundary Commission for Scotland website
1 2 3 4 5 Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972 (ISBN 0-900178-09-4), F. W. S. Craig, 1972
1 2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 4)
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ http://www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk/content/council_and_government/councillors_politics_elections/elections_and_voting/uk_parliamentary_elections/uk_parliamentary_election_2015.aspx
↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/dunbartonshire-east-2015.html
↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/dunbartonshire-east-2015.html
↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/dunbartonshireeast/
↑ House of Commons Library http://geo.digiminster.com/election/2015-05-07/Statistics/Turnout
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1980
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1977
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1963

Constituencies in Scotland by Holding Party (59)

Scottish National Party (54)	Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Airdrie and Shotts Angus Argyll and Bute Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock Banff and Buchan Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Central Ayrshire Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East Dumfries and Galloway Dundee East Dundee West Dunfermline and West Fife East Dunbartonshire East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh East Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh South West Falkirk Glasgow Central Glasgow North Glasgow North East Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West Glenrothes Gordon Inverclyde Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Kilmarnock and Loudoun Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath Lanark and Hamilton East Linlithgow and East Falkirk Livingston Midlothian Moray Motherwell and Wishaw Na h-Eileanan an Iar North Ayrshire and Arran North East Fife Ochil and South Perthshire Paisley and Renfrewshire North Paisley and Renfrewshire South Perth and North Perthshire Ross, Skye and Lochaber Rutherglen and Hamilton West Stirling West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine West Dunbartonshire

Labour (1)	Edinburgh South

Conservative (1)	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

Liberal Democrat (1)	Orkney and Shetland

Independent (2)	Edinburgh West Glasgow East

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