Eastwood (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Eastwood | |
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County constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
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![]() Eastwood shown within the West Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
Population | 71,066 (2019)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1999 |
Party | Conservative |
MSP | Jackson Carlaw |
Council area | East Renfrewshire |
Eastwood (Gaelic: A' Choille Shear) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of East Renfrewshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
The seat has been held by Jackson Carlaw of the Scottish Conservatives since the 2016 Scottish Parliament election.
Electoral region
[edit]The other nine constituencies of the West Scotland region are: Clydebank and Milngavie, Cunninghame North, Cunninghame South, Dumbarton, Greenock and Inverclyde, Paisley, Renfrewshire North and West, Renfrewshire South and Strathkelvin and Bearsden.
The region covers part of the Argyll and Bute council area, the East Dunbartonshire council area, the East Renfrewshire council area, the Inverclyde council area, North Ayrshire council area, the Renfrewshire council area and the West Dunbartonshire council area.
Constituency boundaries and council area
[edit]The Eastwood constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, the name of the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency was changed to East Renfrewshire.[2]
In boundary changes in time for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the constituency of Eastwood was redrawn to be formed from the following electoral wards:
- In full:
- In part:
- Newton Mearns North and Neilston (shared with Renfrewshire South)
Constituency profile
[edit]The Eastwood constituency is a highly affluent, middle-class commuter seat located south-west of Glasgow. It covers a majority of the East Renfrewshire council area, based principally around the towns of Newton Mearns, Eaglesham, Giffnock, Thornliebank, Netherlee, Busby and Clarkston which adjoin the City of Glasgow. According to data derived from the Scottish Index for Multiple Deprivation 60% of the seat's datazones are among the 10% most affluent areas in Scotland, with a further 15% of the seat's datazones being among the 20% most affluent areas in Scotland.[3]
Data from the 2011 Scottish Census suggests that the seat has a substantial number of home-owners residing in large bungalows in comparison to the national average,[4] with large portion of the seat's working population being employed in managerial, administrative and professional occupations.[4]
Member of the Scottish Parliament
[edit]The MSP for this constituency from its creation in 1999 was Ken Macintosh of Labour. In the 2016 election, Macintosh lost the seat, finishing third behind the Conservative victor Jackson Carlaw; however, he was returned as an additional MSP for the West Scotland region, following which he was elected as the Scottish Parliament's fifth Presiding Officer.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1999 | Ken Macintosh | Labour | |
2016 | Jackson Carlaw | Conservative |
Election results
[edit]2020s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Conservative | Jackson Carlaw[a] | 17,911 | 41.9 | ![]() | 15,369 | 35.9 | ![]() | |
SNP | Colm Merrick | 15,695 | 36.8 | ![]() | 12,433 | 29.0 | ![]() | |
Labour | Katie Pragnell | 6,759 | 15.8 | ![]() | 8,449 | 19.7 | ![]() | |
Scottish Green | 3,524 | 8.2 | ![]() | |||||
Independent | David Macdonald | 1,352 | 3.2 | New | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Tahir Jameel | 911 | 2.1 | ![]() | 1,243 | 2.9 | ![]() | |
Alba | 502 | 1.2 | New | |||||
All for Unity | 354 | 0.8 | New | |||||
Scottish Family | 307 | 0.7 | New | |||||
Independent Green Voice | 232 | 0.5 | New | |||||
Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 91 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Freedom Alliance (UK) | 71 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Reform UK | 64 | 0.1 | New | |||||
Independent | James Morrison | 43 | 0.1 | New | ||||
Scottish Libertarian | 42 | 0.1 | ![]() | |||||
UKIP | Janice MacKay | 75 | 0.2 | New | 41 | 0.1 | ![]() | |
Independent | Maurice Campbell | 27 | 0.1 | New | ||||
TUSC | 26 | 0.1 | New | |||||
Scotia Future | 12 | 0.0 | New | |||||
Renew | 10 | 0.0 | New | |||||
Majority | 2,216 | 5.1 | ![]() | |||||
Valid Votes | 42,703 | 42,840 | ||||||
Invalid Votes | 141 | 85 | ||||||
Turnout | 42,844 | 76.4 | ![]() | 42,925 | 76.6 | ![]() | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ![]() | ||||||
This was the smallest Conservative majority at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.
2010s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Constituency | Region | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Conservative | Jackson Carlaw[a] | 12,932 | 35.7 | ![]() | 13,929 | 38.3 | ![]() | |
SNP | Stewart Maxwell[a] | 11,322 | 31.2 | ![]() | 10,680 | 29.4 | ![]() | |
Labour | Ken Macintosh[b] | 11,081 | 30.6 | ![]() | 7,263 | 20.0 | ![]() | |
Scottish Green | 2,390 | 6.6 | ![]() | |||||
Liberal Democrats | John Duncan | 921 | 2.5 | ![]() | 999 | 2.7 | ![]() | |
UKIP | 458 | 1.3 | ![]() | |||||
Scottish Christian | 286 | 0.1 | ![]() | |||||
Solidarity | 135 | 0.4 | ![]() | |||||
RISE | 129 | 0.4 | New | |||||
Scottish Libertarian | 60 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Majority | 1,610 | 4.5 | N/A | |||||
Valid Votes | 36,256 | 36,329 | ||||||
Invalid Votes | 116 | 58 | ||||||
Turnout | 36,372 | 68.5 | ![]() | 36,387 | 68.5 | ![]() | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | |||||||
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Region | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Ken Macintosh[a] | 12,662 | 39.7 | +9.8 | 8,708 | 27.3 | N/A | |
SNP | Stewart Maxwell[b] | 7,777 | 24.3 | +8.6 | 10,967 | 34.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Jackson Carlaw[b] | 10,650 | 33.4 | -8.3 | 8,584 | 26.9 | N/A | |
Scottish Green | 1,170 | 3.7 | N/A | |||||
Liberal Democrats | Gordon Cochrane | 835 | 2.6 | ' -8.5 | 906 | 2.8 | N/A | |
All-Scotland Pensioners Party | 365 | 1.1 | N/A | |||||
Scottish Christian | 234 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
BNP | 195 | 0.6 | N/A | |||||
UKIP | 194 | 0.6 | N/A | |||||
Socialist Labour | 189 | 0.6 | N/A | |||||
Scottish Socialist | 95 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
Solidarity | 41 | 0.1 | N/A | |||||
Independent | Richard Vassie | 24 | 0.1 | N/A | ||||
Others | 201 | 0.6 | N/A | |||||
Majority | 2,012 | 6.4 | N/A | |||||
Valid Votes | 31,924 | 31,873 | ||||||
Invalid Votes | 98 | 100 | ||||||
Turnout | 31,924 | 63.4 | N/A | 31,973 | 63.3 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new boundaries) | ||||||||
2000s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | 12,825 | 41.1 | |||
Labour | 9,337 | 29.9 | |||
SNP | 4,912 | 15.7 | |||
Liberal Democrats | 3,141 | 10.1 | |||
Others | 986 | 3.2 | |||
Majority | 3,488 | 11.2 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Eastwood [8] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | ![]() | 15,077 | 35.76 | −0.10 | 12,365 | 29.41 | |||
Conservative | Jackson Carlaw | 14,186 | 33.64 | +7.30 | 11,470 | 27.28 | |||
SNP | Stewart Maxwell | 7,972 | 18.91 | +6.73 | 9,460 | 22.50 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Gordon MacDonald | 3,603 | 8.55 | −4.45 | 3,332 | 7.92 | |||
Independent | Frank McGee | 1,327 | 3.15 | +3.15 | |||||
Scottish Green | 1,515 | 3.60 | |||||||
Scottish Senior Citizens | 737 | 1.75 | |||||||
Solidarity | 631 | 1.50 | |||||||
BNP | 505 | 1.20 | |||||||
CPA | 502 | 1.19 | |||||||
Scottish Christian | 500 | 1.19 | |||||||
Save Our NHS Group | 376 | 0.89 | |||||||
Scottish Unionist Party (modern) | 156 | 0.37 | |||||||
Scottish Socialist | 143 | 0.34 | |||||||
Socialist Labour | 126 | 0.30 | |||||||
UKIP | 112 | 0.27 | |||||||
Scottish Voice | 56 | 0.13 | |||||||
Scottish Jacobite | 50 | 0.12 | |||||||
Socialist Equality | 12 | 0.03 | |||||||
Informal votes | 990 | 1,107 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 42,165 | 42,048 | |||||||
Turnout | 43,155 | ||||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 891 | 2.11 | −7.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kenneth Macintosh | 13,946 | 35.9 | −1.5 | |
Conservative | Jackson Carlaw | 10,244 | 26.3 | −6.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Allan Steele | 5,056 | 13.0 | +3.2 | |
SNP | Stewart Maxwell | 4,736 | 12.2 | −7.1 | |
Independent | Margaret Hinds | 3,163 | 8.1 | New | |
Scottish Socialist | Steve Oram | 1,504 | 3.8 | New | |
Scottish People's | Martyn Greene | 240 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 3,702 | 9.6 | +4.9 | ||
Turnout | 38,889 | 58.0 | −9.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
1990s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Labour | Kenneth Macintosh | 16,970 | 37.4 | ||
Conservative | John Young | 14,845 | 32.7 | ||
SNP | Rachel Findlay | 8,760 | 19.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Anna McCurley | 4,472 | 9.9 | ||
Independent | Manar Tayan | 349 | 0.8 | ||
Majority | 2,125 | 4.68 | |||
Turnout | 45,396 | 59.5 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Scottish Parliamentary Constituency (SPC) Population Estimates (2011 Data Zone based), National Records of Scotland; retrieved 6 May 2021 (accompanying summary notes)
- ^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Scottish Government (11 July 2013). "Eastwood". www.gov.scot.
- ^ a b "Standard Outputs - Census Data Explorer - Scotland's Census - Log in". www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 13 June 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ "Scottish parliamentary elections 2021". East Renfrewshire Council. 8 May 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ "Scottish parliamentary elections 2016". East Renfrewshire Council. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ "Results and turnout at the 2011 Scottish Parliament election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ Sub-constituency election results for the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections - data- Scotland Office; 30 April 2008; retrieved 5 April 2011
External links
[edit]- "Eastwood constituency map" (PDF). Boundaries Scotland. Retrieved 7 July 2021.