Rutherglen and Hamilton West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Rutherglen and Hamilton West Burgh constituency
Rutherglen and Hamilton West shown within Scotland
Created:	2005
MP:	Tommy McAvoy
Party:	Labour Co-operative
Type:	House of Commons
Council areas:	South Lanarkshire
EP constituency:	Scotland

Rutherglen and Hamilton West is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election from almost all of Glasgow Rutherglen and most of Hamilton South.

It contains Rutherglen and the west of Hamilton.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Tommy McAvoy, Labour Co-operative (2005–present)

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Rutherglen and Hamilton West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Tommy McAvoy	24,054	55.6	-4.1
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Robertson	7,942	18.4	+6.7
	Scottish National Party	Margaret Park	6,023	13.9	-1.3
	Conservative	Peter Crerar	3,621	8.4	-0.2
	Scottish Socialist	Bill Bonnar	1,164	2.7	-1.9
	UKIP	Janice Murdoch	457	1.1	+0.9
Majority			16,112	37.2
Turnout			43,261	58.5	+3.2
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	-5.4

General Election 2001: Glasgow Rutherglen
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Tommy McAvoy	16,760	57.4	-0.1
	Scottish National Party	Anne McLaughlin	4,135	14.2	-1.1
	Liberal Democrats	David Jackson	3,689	12.6	-1.9
	Conservative	Malcolm Macaskill	3,301	11.3	+2.0
	Scottish Socialist	Bill Bonnar	1,328	4.5	N/A
Majority			12,625	43.2
Turnout			29,213	56.3	-13.8
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of UK Parliamentary constituencies in Scotland

UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland
Labour	Aberdeen North | Aberdeen South | Airdrie and Shotts | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Central Ayrshire | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Dumfries and Galloway | Dundee West | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | East Lothian | East Renfrewshire | Edinburgh East | Edinburgh North and Leith | Edinburgh South | Edinburgh South West | Falkirk | Glasgow Central | Glasgow East | Glasgow North | Glasgow North West | Glasgow South | Glasgow South West | Glenrothes | Inverclyde | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Lanark and Hamilton East | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Livingston | Midlothian | Motherwell and Wishaw | North Ayrshire and Arran | Ochil and South Perthshire | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Stirling | West Dunbartonshire
Liberal Democrat	Argyll and Bute | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | Dunfermline and West Fife | East Dunbartonshire | Edinburgh West | Gordon | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | North East Fife | Orkney and Shetland | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
SNP	Angus | Banff and Buchan | Dundee East | Moray | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | Perth and North Perthshire
Conservative and Unionist	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Speaker	Glasgow North East
Scotland European constituency: Labour (2) | SNP (2) | Conservative and Unionist (2) | Liberal Democrats (1)