Stirling (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 56°07′08″N 4°04′55″W / 56.119°N 4.082°W
Stirling | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Stirling in Scotland. | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Stirling |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of parliament | Steven Paterson (SNP) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Stirling, Falkirk & Grangemouth, Stirlingshire West and Kinross & West Perthshire[1] |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | Scotland |
Stirling is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Boundaries
1983–1997: The Stirling District electoral divisions of Airthrey, Bannockburn, Castle, Dounebraes, Menteith, Queensland, St Ninians, Strathendrick, Viewforth, and Wallace.
1997–2005: The Stirling District electoral divisions of Bannockburn, Castle, Dounebraes, Menteith, Queensland, St Ninians, Strathendrick, Viewforth, and Wallace.
2005–present: The Stirling council area.
The constituency covers the whole of the Stirling council area. Most of the area is rural, which has tended to vote Conservative, but there are some large towns in the East, most notably Stirling itself, which used to vote Labour, but has now moved towards SNP. A similar constituency, also called Stirling, is used by the Scottish Parliament.
History
The area covered by the modern constituency was first represented in the British House of Commons in consequence of the Act of Union 1707 in 1708. The county town of Stirling was represented as part of Stirling Burghs and the county was represented by Stirlingshire, each returning one member.
In 1918, Stirling Burghs was abolished and Stirling was then represented by the Stirling & Falkirk Burghs and from 1974 Stirling, Falkirk & Grangemouth constituencies. Along with Clackmannanshire the county was meanwhile represented by Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire and Stirling and Clackmannan Western (later Stirlingshire West).
The modern constituency of Stirling was established in 1983. In 2005 the west portion of Ochil was moved into Stirling.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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1983 | Michael Bruce Forsyth | Conservative | |
1997 | Dame Anne McGuire | Labour | |
2015 | Steven Paterson | SNP |
Election results
Elections of the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SNP | Steven Paterson | 23,783 | 45.6 | +28.3 | |
Labour | Johanna Catherine Boyd | 13,303 | 25.5 | −16.2 | |
Conservative | Stephen Charles Kerr[5] | 12,051 | 23.1 | −0.9 | |
Scottish Green | Mark Ruskell[6] | 1,606 | 3.1 | +1.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Elisabeth Mary Wilson | 1,392 | 2.7 | −11.8 | |
Majority | 10,480 | 20.1 | |||
Turnout | 52,135 | 77.5 | +6.7 | ||
SNP gain from Labour | Swing | +22.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Anne McGuire | 19,558 | 41.8 | +5.8 | |
Conservative | Bob H. Dalrymple | 11,204 | 23.9 | −1.1 | |
SNP | Alison J. Lindsay | 8,091 | 17.3 | +4.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Graham Richard Reed | 6,797 | 14.5 | −6.2 | |
Scottish Green | Mark Ruskell | 746 | 1.6 | −1.4 | |
UKIP | Paul Henke | 395 | 0.8 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 8,354 | 17.9 | |||
Turnout | 46,791 | 70.8 | +2.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.5 | |||
Elections of the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Anne McGuire | 15,729 | 36.0 | −7.0 | |
Conservative | Stephen Charles Kerr | 10,962 | 25.1 | +1.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Kelvin Holdsworth | 9,052 | 20.7 | +9.2 | |
SNP | Ms. Frances Monica McGlinchey | 5,503 | 12.6 | −4.5 | |
Scottish Green | Richard Duncan Illingworth | 1,302 | 3.0 | N/A | |
Scottish Socialist | Rowland Harry Sheret | 458 | 1.0 | −1.7 | |
Independent | James McFarlane McDonald | 261 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Christian Vote | Michael Dennis Willis | 215 | 0.5 | N/A | |
UKIP | Matthew Coughlan Desmond | 209 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,767 | 10.9 | |||
Turnout | 43,691 | 67.7 | +2.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Anne McGuire | 15,175 | 42.2 | −5.2 | |
Conservative | Geoff Mawdsley | 8,901 | 24.8 | −7.7 | |
SNP | Miss Fiona Elizabeth Macaulay | 5,877 | 16.4 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Clive Edward Freeman | 4,208 | 11.7 | +5.5 | |
Scottish Socialist | Dr. Charles Clarke Mullen | 1,012 | 2.8 | N/A | |
Scottish Green | Mark Ruskell | 757 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,274 | 17.4 | |||
Turnout | 35,930 | 67.7 | −14.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.2 | |||
Elections of the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Anne McGuire | 20,382 | 47.4 | +8.8 | |
Conservative | Michael Bruce Forsyth | 13,971 | 32.5 | −6.7 | |
SNP | Ewan Dow | 5,752 | 13.4 | −1.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Alistair George Tough | 2,675 | 6.2 | +0.5 | |
UKIP | William McMurdo | 154 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Independent | Mrs. Elaine Liv McDonald Olsen | 24 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,411 | 14.9 | |||
Turnout | 42,958 | 81.8 | −0.5 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +7.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Michael Bruce Forsyth | 19,174 | 40.0 | +1.7 | |
Labour | Mrs. Catherine Winifred Phillips | 18,471 | 38.5 | +2.3 | |
SNP | Gerald Alexander Fisher | 6,558 | 13.7 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | William Brewster Robertson | 3,337 | 7.0 | −7.7 | |
Scottish Green | William Russell Thompson | 342 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Monster Raving Loony | Ross Sharp | 68 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 703 | 1.5 | |||
Turnout | 47,950 | 82.3 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections of the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Michael Bruce Forsyth | 17,591 | 38.3 | −1.7 | |
Labour | Michael Connarty | 16,643 | 36.2 | +8.3 | |
Liberal | Ian Buchanan McFarlane | 6,804 | 14.8 | −9.1 | |
SNP | Iain Macdonald Lawson | 4,897 | 10.7 | +2.5 | |
Majority | 948 | 2.1 | |||
Turnout | 45,935 | 79.4 | +3.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Michael Bruce Forsyth | 17,039 | 40.0 | N/A | |
Labour | Michael Connarty | 11,906 | 27.9 | N/A | |
Liberal | James Ross Finnie | 10,174 | 23.9 | N/A | |
SNP | William Houston | 3,488 | 8.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,133 | 12.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,607 | 75.7 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
References
- ↑ "'Stirling', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ http://my.stirling.gov.uk/services/council-and-government/politicians-elections-and-democracy/elections-and-voting/election-results/westminster-parliament-elections-7-may-2015
- ↑ http://www.kerrforstirling.co.uk/index.html
- ↑ http://www.scottishgreens.org.uk/news/scottish-greens-confirm-32-candidates-for-biggest-mp-push
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Election Data 1992". 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 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.