Kilmarnock and Loudoun | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | East Ayrshire |
Major settlements | Auchinleck, Dunlop, Kilmarnock, Kilmaurs, Stewarton |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Alan Brown (SNP) |
Created from | Kilmarnock |
Kilmarnock and Loudoun is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.
The constituency consists of the northern half of East Ayrshire and contains the town of Kilmarnock and the Irvine Valley.
In 2005, the constituency was expanded to include part of the disbanded Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituency.
There was a Kilmarnock and Loudoun local government district covering a similar area, from 1975 to 1996. At the 1983 general election, this district was coterminous with the constituency boundaries [1]
It does not share the same borders as the Scottish Parliament constituency of the same name.
The main towns are:
Those towns marked * were not part of the original Kilmarnock and Loudoun, but were absorbed from the disbanded Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley.
Election | Member [2] | Party | |
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1983 | Willie McKelvey | Labour | |
1997 | Des Browne | Labour | |
2010 | Cathy Jamieson | Labour Co-operative | |
2015 | Alan Brown | SNP | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Alan Brown [3] | ||||
Conservative | Jordan Cowie [3] | ||||
Labour | Lillian Jones [3] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Swing | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Alan Brown | 24,216 | 50.8 | +8.5 | |
Conservative | Caroline Hollins-Martin | 11,557 | 24.3 | -2.4 | |
Labour | Kevin McGregor | 9,009 | 18.9 | -10.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Edward Thornley | 2,444 | 5.1 | +3.0 | |
Libertarian | Stef Johnstone | 405 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 12,659 | 26.5 | +13.1 | ||
Turnout | 47,631 | 63.9 | +0.5 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | +9.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Alan Brown | 19,690 | 42.3 | -13.4 | |
Labour Co-op | Laura Dover | 13,421 | 28.9 | -1.5 | |
Conservative | Alison Harper | 12,404 | 26.7 | +14.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Irene Lang | 994 | 2.1 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 6,269 | 13.4 | -11.9 | ||
Turnout | 46,509 | 63.4 | -8.2 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | -5.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Alan Brown | 30,000 | 55.7 | +29.7 | |
Labour Co-op | Cathy Jamieson | 16,362 | 30.4 | −22.1 | |
Conservative | Brian Whittle | 6,752 | 12.5 | −1.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rodney Ackland | 789 | 1.5 | −5.8 | |
Majority | 13,638 | 25.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 53,903 | 71.6 | +8.8 | ||
SNP gain from Labour Co-op | Swing | +25.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Cathy Jamieson | 24,460 | 52.5 | +5.2 | |
SNP | George Leslie | 12,082 | 26.0 | −1.7 | |
Conservative | Janette McAlpine | 6,592 | 14.2 | +2.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sebastian M. Tombs | 3,419 | 7.3 | −3.8 | |
Majority | 12,378 | 26.5 | +6.9 | ||
Turnout | 46,553 | 62.8 | +1.9 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +3.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Des Browne | 20,976 | 47.3 | −7.7 | |
SNP | Daniel Coffey | 12,273 | 27.7 | +3.3 | |
Conservative | Gary Smith | 5,026 | 11.3 | +1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kevin Lang | 4,945 | 11.1 | +3.5 | |
Scottish Socialist | Hugh Kerr | 833 | 1.9 | −0.9 | |
UKIP | Ronnie Robertson | 330 | 0.7 | New | |
Majority | 8,703 | 19.6 | -7.8 | ||
Turnout | 44,383 | 60.9 | −1.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −5.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Des Browne | 19,926 | 52.9 | +3.1 | |
SNP | John M. Brady | 9,592 | 25.5 | −9.0 | |
Conservative | Donald Reece | 3,943 | 10.5 | −0.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Stewart | 3,177 | 8.4 | +4.4 | |
Scottish Socialist | Jason Muir | 1,027 | 2.7 | New | |
Majority | 10,334 | 27.4 | +12.1 | ||
Turnout | 37,665 | 61.7 | −15.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −6.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Des Browne | 23,621 | 49.8 | +5.0 | |
SNP | Alex Neil | 16,365 | 34.5 | +3.8 | |
Conservative | Douglas Taylor | 5,125 | 10.8 | −8.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Stewart | 1,891 | 4.0 | −1.5 | |
Referendum | William Sneddon | 284 | 0.6 | New | |
Natural Law | William Gilmour | 123 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 7,256 | 15.3 | +1.2 | ||
Turnout | 47,709 | 77.1 | −2.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | William McKelvey | 22,210 | 44.8 | −3.7 | |
SNP | Alex Neil | 15,231 | 30.7 | +12.5 | |
Conservative | Richard Wilkinson | 9,438 | 19.0 | −0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kate Philbrick | 2,722 | 5.5 | −8.2 | |
Majority | 6,979 | 14.1 | -15.8 | ||
Turnout | 49,601 | 80.0 | +2.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | William McKelvey | 23,713 | 48.5 | +4.9 | |
Conservative | Aileen Bates | 9,586 | 19.6 | −5.1 | |
SNP | George Leslie | 8,881 | 18.2 | +9.2 | |
SDP | Peter Kerr | 6,698 | 13.7 | −9.0 | |
Majority | 14,127 | 28.9 | +10.0 | ||
Turnout | 48,878 | 78.0 | +2.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +5.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | William McKelvey | 20,250 | 43.6 | -9.0 | |
Conservative | Peter Leckie | 11,450 | 24.7 | -4.4 | |
SDP | Aubrey Ross | 10,545 | 22.7 | New | |
SNP | Charles Calman | 4,165 | 9.0 | -9.3 | |
Majority | 8,800 | 18.9 | -4.5 | ||
Turnout | 46,410 | 75.6 | -5.5 | ||
Labour win (new seat) |
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