Clackmannan (UK Parliament constituency)
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Clackmannan | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Subdivisions of Scotland | Clackmannan |
1983–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Ochil |
Created from | Clackmannan & East Stirlingshire |
Clackmannan was a parliamentary constituency in the Clackmannan area of Central Scotland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, replacing the previous Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire constituency. The Clackmannan constituency was abolished for the 1997 general election.
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Boundaries
Clackmannan District; the Falkirk District electoral division of Carseland; and the Stirling District electoral division of Kinnaird.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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1983 | Martin O'Neill | Labour | |
1997 | constituency abolished: see Ochil |
Politics and history of the constituency
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Election results
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Elections of the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Martin O'Neill | 18,829 | 49.1 | −4.6 | |
SNP | Andrew Brophy | 10,326 | 26.9 | +6.0 | |
Conservative | Jim A. Mackie | 6,638 | 17.3 | +2.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mrs. Ann Margaret Watters | 2,567 | 6.7 | −3.8 | |
Majority | 8,503 | 22.2 | |||
Turnout | 38,360 | 78.3 | +1.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −5.3 |
Elections of the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Martin O'Neill | 20,317 | 53.7 | +7.9 | |
SNP | Allan Macartney | 7,916 | 20.9 | +1.9 | |
Conservative | James Parker | 5,620 | 14.9 | −3.1 | |
Social Democratic | Mrs. Ann Margaret Watters | 3,961 | 10.5 | −6.7 | |
Majority | 12,401 | 32.8 | |||
Turnout | 37,814 | 77.0 | +1.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Martin O'Neill | 16,478 | 45.8 | N/A | |
SNP | Janette Jones | 6,839 | 19.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Charles Hendry | 6,490 | 18.0 | N/A | |
Social Democratic | Mrs. H.C. Campbell | 6,205 | 17.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,639 | 26.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 36,012 | 75.6 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) |
References
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- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
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- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1997
- Politics of Clackmannanshire