East Renfrewshire (uk Parliament Constituency)

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	Type	County
	Entity	Scotland
	DivisionType	Council Areas
	Division	East Renfrewshire
	Year	1885 , 2005
	MP	Jim Murphy
	Party	Labour
	EP	Scotland

East Renfrewshire is a Constituency of the House Of Commons of the Parliament Of The United Kingdom . It elects one Member Of Parliament (MP) by the First Past The Post system of election.

From the 1983 General Election until the 2005 General Election , the constituency was called Eastwood . It is the only constituency in mainland Scotland whose boundaries were unchanged by the 2005 revision of Scottish constituencies.


BOUNDARIES

The constituency covers the East Renfrewshire council area, sitting on the borders of Glasgow . Mostly middle-class residental territory for Glasgow, the area was looked on as safely Conservative before Labour gained the seat in 1997.


MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT

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• , Labour (until 2005, MP for Eastwood)

ELECTION RESULTS

title General Election 2005 : Renfrewshire East

party Labour Party (UK)   candidate Jim Murphy   votes 20815   percentage 439%   change -37

party Conservative Party (UK)   candidate Richard Cook   votes 14158   percentage 299%   change +12

party Liberal Democrats (UK)   candidate Gordon Macdonald   votes 8659   percentage 183%   change +54

party Scottish National Party   candidate Osama Bhutta   votes 3245   percentage 68%   change -18

party Scottish Socialist Party   candidate Ian Henderson   votes 528   percentage 11%   change -06

votes 6657   percentage 140%

votes 47405   percentage 721   change +23

winner Labour Party (UK)   swing -24

title General Election 2001 : Eastwood

party Labour Party (UK)   candidate Jim Murphy   votes 23,036   percentage 476   change +79

party Conservative Party (UK)   candidate Raymond Robertson   votes 13,895   percentage 287   change -48

party Liberal Democrats (UK)   candidate Allan Steele   votes 6,239   percentage 129   change +12

party Scottish National Party   candidate Stewart Maxwell   votes 4,137   percentage 86   change -45

party Scottish Socialist Party   candidate Peter Murray   votes 814   percentage 17   change ''N/A''

party Independent   candidate Manar Tayan   votes 247   percentage 05   change ''N/A''

votes 9,141   percentage 189

votes 48,368   percentage 708   change -74

winner Labour Party (UK)

SEE ALSO

• List Of UK Parliamentary Constituencies In Scotland