Scotland Results

Scottish Parliament Results
Party Scottish National Party Scottish Conservatives Scottish Labour Scottish Green Party Scottish Lib Dems Independent
Seats 63 31 24 6 5 0
Change −6 +16 −13 +4 - −1

After 129 of 129 seats Results in full

Latest headlines

  1. Victory for the SNP with 63 seats - two short of a majority
  2. Conservatives are the second largest party on 31 seats - but Labour on 24 lost 13 seats
  3. Scottish Greens are the fourth largest party with six seats, ahead of the Lib Dems who won five
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East Kilbride

Scottish Parliament constituency Region - Central Scotland
Result: SNP HOLD

Scoreboard

Party Candidates Votes % Net percentage change in seats
Party

SNP

Scottish National Party

 Candidates Linda Fabiani Votes 19,371 55.9% Net percentage change in seats +7.9
Party

LAB

Scottish Labour

 Candidates Lizanne Handibode Votes 8,392 24.2% Net percentage change in seats −17.3
Party

CON

Scottish Conservatives

 Candidates Graham Simpson Votes 5,857 16.9% Net percentage change in seats +9.4
Party

LD

Scottish Lib Dems

 Candidates Paul McGarry Votes 1,009 2.9% Net percentage change in seats +1.3

Change compared with 2011

Turnout and Majority

Scottish National Party Majority

10,979

Turnout

56.6%

Vote share

Party %
Scottish National Party 55.9
Scottish Labour 24.2
Scottish Conservatives 16.9
Scottish Lib Dems 2.9

Vote share change since 2011

−%
+%
Scottish Conservatives
+9.4
Scottish National Party
+7.9
Scottish Lib Dems
+1.3
Scottish Labour
−17.3
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Constituency Profile

This constituency is based around Scotland's oldest new town - East Kilbride. Its post-war housing, built on former farm land, has attracted families who work in office-based centres and who commute into nearby Glasgow, 8 miles to the north west.

The area's Hairmyres Hospital was opened 10 years ago and was built with private finance initiative money. The constituency's good road and public transport links has attracted some big employers. These include HM Revenue and Customs, which has several large office in East Kilbride, although these are facing closure as the agency restructures its operations. The dairy company Robert Wiseman is also based in East Kilbride, and the town centre is occuped by a large shopping centre comprising six interlinked malls.

Labour's Andy Kerr represented the seat from the founding of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 until Linda Fabiani took it for the SNP in 2011.

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