Hamilton South (UK Parliament constituency)
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Hamilton South | |
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Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons |
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1997–2005 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Lanark & Hamilton East Rutherglen & Hamilton West |
Created from | Hamilton |
Hamilton South was burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Formed in 1997 from the Hamilton constituency, it was abolished in 2005 and parts of the constituency went to make the constituencies of Lanark and Hamilton East and Rutherglen and Hamilton West.
Contents
Boundaries
The Hamilton District electoral divisions of Blantyre and Burnbank, Hamilton South, and Hamilton West.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | Notes | |
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1997 | George Robertson | Labour | resigned 1999 to become Secretary General of NATO | |
1999 by-election | Bill Tynan | Labour |
Election results
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Elections of the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Bill Tynan | 15,965 | 59.7 | −5.9 | |
SNP | John Gordon Wilson | 5,190 | 19.4 | +1.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | John Oswald | 2,388 | 8.9 | +3.8 | |
Conservative | Neil Richardson | 1,876 | 7.0 | −1.6 | |
Scottish Socialist | Miss Georgina (Gena) Mitchell | 1,187 | 4.4 | N/A | |
UKIP | Miss Janice Elizabeth Murdoch | 151 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,775 | 40.3 | |||
Turnout | 26,757 | 57.3 | −13.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections of the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Bill Tynan | 7,172 | 36.9 | −28.7 | |
SNP | Annabelle Ewing | 6,616 | 34.0 | +16.4 | |
Scottish Socialist | Miss Shareen Blackall | 1,847 | 9.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | Charles Ferguson | 1,406 | 7.2 | −1.4 | |
Independent | Stephen A. Mungall | 1,075 | 5.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Mrs. Marilyne A. MacLaren | 634 | 3.3 | −1.9 | |
ProLife Alliance | Mrs. Monica Burns | 257 | 1.3 | −0.7 | |
Socialist Labour | Tom Dewar | 238 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Scottish Unionist | Jim W. Reid | 113 | 0.6 | N/A | |
UKIP | Alastair D. McConnachie | 61 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Natural Law | George W. Stidolph | 18 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Independent | John S.H. Drummond Moray | 17 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 556 | 2.9 | |||
Turnout | 19,454 | 41.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Mungall used the description "Hamilton Accies Home, Watson Away", referring to demands by some fans that Hamilton Academical should play their home matches locally and that Watson, the chairman, should go. He was a member of the Socialist Labour Party.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Robertson | 21,709 | 65.6 | N/A | |
SNP | Ian Black | 5,831 | 17.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Robert Dow Kilgour | 2,858 | 8.6 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Richard Pitts | 1,693 | 5.1 | N/A | |
ProLife Alliance | Colin S. Gunn | 684 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Referendum | Stuart W. Brown | 316 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,878 | 48.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 33,091 | 71.1 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) |
References
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Articles using small message boxes
- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1997
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 2005
- Politics of South Lanarkshire