Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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Kilmarnock and Loudoun Scottish Parliament constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun shown within the Central Scotland electoral region
Created:	1999
MSP:	Margaret Jamieson
Party:	Labour
Council area:	East Ayrshire (part)

Kilmarnock and Loudoun is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of ten constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Contents 1 Electoral region 2 Constituency boundaries and council area 3 Description of the counstituency 4 Member of the Scottish Parliament 5 Election results 6 Footnotes 6.1 See also 6.1.1 External pages

[edit] Electoral region

See also Central Scotland Scottish Parliament region

The other nine constituencies of the South of Scotland region are Airdrie and Shotts, Coatbridge and Chryston, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, East Kilbride, Falkirk East, Hamilton North and Bellshill, Hamilton South, Falkirk West and Motherwell and Wishaw.

The region covers all of the Falkirk council area, all of the North Lanarkshire council area, part of the South Lanarkshire council area, part of the East Ayrshire council area and a small part of the East Dumbartonshire council area.

[edit] Constituency boundaries and council area

The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster (House of Commons) constituency^[1]. The Westminster constituency was created during the period of local government regions and districts, 1975 to 1996, when there was a Kilmarnock and Loudoun district of the Strathclyde region. In 1996 regions and districts were replaced with unitary council areas. Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies in 2005^[2].

The Holyrood constituency covers a northern portion of the East Ayrshire council area. The rest of the East Ayrshire area is covered by Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, which also covers a southern portion of the South Ayrshire council area. Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley is within the South of Scotland electoral region.

[edit] Description of the counstituency

The constituency includes the towns and villages of Darvel, Galston, Hurlford, Kilmarnock, Kilmaurs, Newmilns and Greenholm and Stewarton.

[edit] Member of the Scottish Parliament

The constituency is currently represented by Labour MSP Margaret Jamieson.

[edit] Election results

Scottish parliamentary election, 2003: Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Jamieson	12,633	40.1	-4.0
	Scottish National Party	Daniel Coffey	11,423	36.3	-0.8
	Conservative	Robin Traquair	3296	10.5	-1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Gibson	1571	5.0	-2.2
	Scottish Socialist	Colin Rutherford	1421	4.5	n/a
	Independent	May Anderson	404	1.3	n/a
	Independent	Matthew Donnelly	402	1.3	n/a
	Scottish People's Alliance	Lyndsay McIntosh	371	1.2	n/a
Majority			1,210	3.84
Turnout			31,520	51.63	-3.17
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.6

Scottish parliamentary election, 2003: Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Jamieson	17,345	44.08
	Scottish National Party	Alex Neil	14,585	37.07
	Conservative	Lyndsay McIntosh	4,589	11.66
	Liberal Democrats	John Stewart	2,830	7.19
Majority			2,760	7.01
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ See Kilmarnock and Loudoun (UK Parliament constituency).
2. ^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland.

[edit] See also

[edit] External pages

• Constituency website