Cunninghame North (UK Parliament constituency)
Not to be confused with Cunninghame North (Scottish Parliament constituency).
Cunninghame North | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Cunninghame district |
1983–2005 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | North Ayrshire and Arran |
Created from |
Bute and Northern Ayrshire Ayrshire Central[1] |
Cunninghame North was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005, when it was largely replaced by North Ayrshire and Arran. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.
The Scottish Parliament constituency also called Cunninghame North continues in existence.
Boundaries
The Cunninghame District electoral divisions of Arran, Largs and West Kilbride; Garnock Valley; and Saltcoats and Ardrossan.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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1983 | John Corrie | Conservative | |
1987 | Brian Wilson | Labour | |
2005 | constituency abolished. See North Ayrshire & Arran |
Election results
Elections of the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Corrie | 15,557 | 38.7 | N/A | |
Labour | John Nisbet Carson | 13,920 | 34.6 | N/A | |
Social Democratic | D.M. Crossan | 7,268 | 18.1 | N/A | |
SNP | Colin Cameron | 3,460 | 8.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,637 | 4.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 40,205 | 75.7 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Brian David Henderson Wilson | 19,061 | 44.4 | +9.8 | |
Conservative | John Corrie | 14,594 | 34.0 | −4.7 | |
Social Democratic | Douglas J. Herbison | 5,185 | 12.1 | −6.0 | |
SNP | Matthew Brown | 4,076 | 9.5 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 4,467 | 10.4 | |||
Turnout | 42,916 | 78.3 | +2.6 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Elections of the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Brian David Henderson Wilson | 17,564 | 41.0 | −3.4 | |
Conservative | Mrs. Edith Louisa Clarkson | 14,625 | 34.1 | +0.1 | |
SNP | David M. Crossan | 7,813 | 18.2 | +8.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Douglas J. Herbison | 2,864 | 6.7 | −5.4 | |
Majority | 2,939 | 6.9 | |||
Turnout | 42,866 | 73.8 | −4.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Brian David Henderson Wilson | 20,686 | 50.3 | +9.3 | |
Conservative | Mrs. Janet Margaret Mitchell | 9,647 | 23.5 | −10.6 | |
SNP | Mrs. Kim Nicoll | 7,584 | 18.4 | +0.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Miss Karen Freel | 2,271 | 5.5 | −1.2 | |
Socialist Labour | Mrs. Louise Anne Margaret McDaid | 501 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Referendum | Ian David Winton | 440 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,039 | 26.8 | |||
Turnout | 41,129 | 73.3 | −0.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections of the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Brian David Henderson Wilson | 15,571 | 46.0 | −4.2 | |
SNP | Campbell Martin | 7,173 | 21.2 | +2.8 | |
Conservative | Richard Matthew Wilkinson | 6,666 | 19.7 | −3.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Ross Michael Chmiel | 3,060 | 9.0 | +3.5 | |
Scottish Socialist | Sean Scott | 964 | 2.9 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Mrs. Louise Anne Margaret McDaid | 382 | 1.1 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 8,398 | 24.8 | |||
Turnout | 33,816 | 61.5 | −12.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
References
- ↑ "'Cunninghame North', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)
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