East Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Renfrewshire East is a 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.

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For other things called Renfrewshire East see Renfrewshire East.

From the 1983 general election until the 2005 general election, the constituency was called Eastwood.

Boundaries

The constituency covers the East Renfrewshire council area, sitting on the borders of Glasgow. Mostly middle-class residental territory for Glasgow, the area was looked on as safely Conservative before Labour gained the seat in 1997.

Members of Parliament

• 1886 — 1906: Michael Hugh Shaw-Stewart
• 1910 — 1918: John Gilmour, Unionist
• 1922 — 1924: Labour
• 1924 — 1930: Alexander Munro MacRobert, Unionist
• 1930 — 1940: Marquess of Clydesdale, Unionist
• 1940 — 1959: Guy Lloyd, Unionist
• 1959 — 1979: Betty Harvie Anderson, Unionist/Conservative
• 1979 — 1997: Allan Stewart, Conservative
• 1997 — present: Jim Murphy, Labour

Election results

General Election 2005: Renfrewshire East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Murphy	20815	43.9%	−3.7
	Conservative	Richard Cook	14158	29.9%	+1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Gordon Macdonald	8659	18.3%	+5.4
	SNP	Osama Bhutta	3245	6.8%	−1.8
	Scottish Socialist	Ian Henderson	528	1.1%	−0.6
Majority			6657	14.0%
Turnout			47405	72.1	+2.3
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.4

General Election 2001: Eastwood

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Murphy	23,036	47.6	+7.9
	Conservative	Raymond Robertson	13,895	28.7	−4.8
	Liberal Democrats	Allan Steele	6,239	12.9	+1.2
	SNP	Stewart Maxwell	4,137	8.6	−4.5
	Scottish Socialist	Peter Murray	814	1.7	N/A
	Independent	Manar Tayan	247	0.5	N/A
Majority			9,141	18.9
Turnout			48,368	70.8	−7.4
	Labour hold		Swing

See also

• List of UK Parliamentary constituencies in Scotland