| Eastwood County constituency |
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| Created: | 1983 |
| Abolished: | 2005 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | One |
Eastwood was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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History
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, when it partially replaced the former East Renfrewshire constituency, following changes in 1975 to local government boundaries.
The East Renfrewshire constituency was re-established for the 2005 general election, with the same boundaries as the Eastwood constituency. Despite the change of name, it is the only constituency in mainland Scotland whose boundaries were unchanged by the 2005 revision of Scottish constituencies.
In 1999, an Eastwood Scottish Parliament constituency was created with the name and boundaries of the Eastwood Westminster constituency.
Boundaries
The constituency lay to the south of Glasgow and included Clarkston, Newton Mearns, Eaglesham, Barrhead and Neilston.
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Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1983 | Allan Stewart | Conservative and Unionist | |
| 1997 | Jim Murphy | Labour | |
| 2005 | constituency renamed: see East Renfrewshire | ||
Election results
Elections in the 1980s
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Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1997: Eastwood | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Jim Murphy | 20,766 | 39.7 | +15.6 | |
| Conservative | Paul Cullen | 17,530 | 33.5 | −13.2 | |
| SNP | Douglas Yates | 6,826 | 13.1 | +0.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Christopher Mason | 6,110 | 11.7 | −4.78 | |
| Referendum Party | David Miller | 497 | 1.0 | N/A | |
| ProLife Alliance | Manar Tayan | 393 | 0.8 | N/A | |
| UKIP | Douglas McPherson | 130 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 3,236 | 6.2 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 52,252 | 77.4 | −3.6 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | 14.4 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
| General Election 2001: Eastwood | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Jim Murphy | 23,036 | 47.6 | +7.9 | |
| Conservative | Raymond Robertson | 13,895 | 28.7 | -4.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 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 | 70.7 | -7.6 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | 6.3% from Conservative to Labour | |||
References
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