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Historic Seat

Rutherglen and Hamilton West

🗳️ Election History

4
Elections
65.3%
Avg Turnout
3
Times Changed
2015
Current Party Since
Scottish National Party Margaret Ferrier Gain from Labour
Majority 5,230
Turnout 66.5% ↑3.0pp
Total Votes 53,794
Winner Swing ↑6.7pp
✓ Margaret Ferrier
Labour (Co-op)
23,775 44.2%
↑7.2pp
Gerard Killen
Labour
18,545 34.5%
↓3.1pp
Lynne Nailon
Conservative
8,054 15.0%
↓4.6pp
Mark McGeever
Liberal Democrats
2,791 5.2%
↑1.0pp
Janice Mackay
—
629 1.2%
↑0.3pp
Labour Gerard Killen Gain from Scottish National Party
Majority 265
Turnout 63.5% ↓6.1pp
Total Votes 50,872
Winner Swing ↓15.0pp
✓ Gerard Killen
Labour
19,101 37.6%
↑2.3pp
Margaret Ferrier
Labour (Co-op)
18,836 37.0%
↓15.5pp
Ann Le Blond
Conservative
9,941 19.5%
↑12.0pp
Robert Brown
Liberal Democrats
2,158 4.2%
↑2.4pp
Caroline Santos
—
465 0.9%
↓1.3pp
Andy Dixon
—
371 0.7%
—
Scottish National Party Margaret Ferrier Gain from Labour
Majority 9,975
Turnout 69.6% ↑8.1pp
Total Votes 57,615
Winner Swing ↓8.3pp
✓ Margaret Ferrier
Labour (Co-op)
30,279 52.6%
↑36.5pp
Tom Greatrex
Labour
20,304 35.2%
↓25.6pp
Taylor Muir
Conservative
4,350 7.6%
↓2.1pp
Janice Mackay
—
1,301 2.3%
↑0.8pp
Tony Hughes
Liberal Democrats
1,045 1.8%
↓10.2pp
Yvonne MacLean
—
336 0.6%
—
Labour Tom Greatrex Hold
Majority 21,002
Turnout 61.5%
Total Votes 46,981
✓ Tom Greatrex
Labour
28,566 60.8%
↑5.2pp
Graeme Horne
Labour (Co-op)
7,564 16.1%
↑2.2pp
Ian Robertson
Liberal Democrats
5,636 12.0%
↓6.4pp
Malcolm Macaskill
Conservative
4,540 9.7%
↑1.3pp
Janice Murdoch
—
675 1.4%
↑0.4pp

Turnout Trend

61.5%
'10
69.6%
'15
63.5%
'17
66.5%
'19

👥 Demographics

🌍 Ethnicity
White
97.0%
Asian or Asian British
2.2%
Black, African, Caribbean or Black British
0.4%
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups
0.3%
Other ethnic group
0.1%
📊 Age
45 to 64
27.8%
30 to 44
22.0%
Under 18
20.5%
65 and over
15.2%
18 to 29
14.5%
⛪ Religion
Christian
63.4%
No religion
28.3%
Religion not stated
6.4%
Muslim
1.2%
Hindu
0.2%
Other religion
0.2%
Sikh
0.1%
Buddhist
0.1%
Jewish
0.0%

Previous MPs

Historical representatives of this constituency
MP Name Party From To
Margaret Ferrier Independent 2019-12-12 2023-08-01
Ged Killen Labour 2017-06-08 2019-11-06
Tom Greatrex Labour 2010-05-06 2015-03-30