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| Ochil County constituency |
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| Created: | 1997 |
| Abolished: | 2005 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | One |
Ochil was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1997 until 2005.
It replaced the former constituency of Clackmannan. In 2005 it was mostly merged into the new constituency of Ochil and South Perthshire. A western portion was merged into Stirling.
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Boundaries
The constituency included Alloa, Clackmannan, Tillicoultry, Dollar and Kinross. It covered Clackmannanshire and small portions of Stirlingshire and Perth and Kinross.[citation needed]
Members of Parliament
- 1997 Martin O'Neill Labour
Politics and history of the constituency
| General Election 2001: Ochil | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Martin O'Neill | 16,004 | 45.3 | ||
| SNP | Keith Brown | 10,655 | 30.2 | ||
| Conservative | Alasdair Campbell | 4,235 | 12.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Paul Edie | 3,253 | 9.2 | ||
| Scottish Socialist | Pauline Thomson | 751 | 2.1 | ||
| Monster Raving Loony | Flash Gordon Approaching | 405 | 1.1 | ||
| Majority | 5,349 | 15.2 | |||
| Turnout | 35,303 | 61.3 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | +2.3 | |||
| General Election 1997: Ochil | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Martin O'Neill | 19,707 | 45.01 | ||
| SNP | G Reid | 15,055 | 34.38 | ||
| Conservative | A Hogarth | 6,383 | 14.58 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | A Watters | 2,262 | 5.17 | ||
| Referendum Party | D White | 210 | 0.48 | ||
| Independent | I Macdonald | 104 | 0.24 | ||
| Natural Law | M Sullivan | 65 | 0.15 | ||
| Majority | 4,652 | 10.64 | |||
| Turnout | 43,786 | 77.4 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | −3.2 | |||
References
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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