Subdivisions of Scotland South Lanarkshire Created from Lanark Number of members 1 | Major settlements East Kilbride Major settlement East Kilbride | |
Replaced by Lanark, East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | ||
East Kilbride was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster) from 1974 until 2005. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
At the 2005 general election it was merged with part of Clydesdale to form the new constituency of East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow.
The East Kilbride Holyrood constituency, created to be coterminous in 1999, continues in use for elections to the Scottish Parliament.
Boundaries
1974-1983: The burgh of East Kilbride, the fourth district electoral division of Avondale, and the eighth district electoral divisions of Blantyre, High Blantyre, and Stonefield.
1983-2005: East Kilbride District.
References
East Kilbride (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA