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Kilmarnock and Loudoun (UK Parliament constituency)

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Subdivisions of Scotland
  
East Ayrshire

Created from
  
Kilmarnock

Member of parliament
  
Alan Brown

Created
  
1983

European Parliament constituency
  
Scotland

Replaced by
  
Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock and Loudoun (UK Parliament constituency)

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.

Boundaries

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

It does not share the same borders as the Scottish Parliament constituency of the same name.

The main towns are:

  • Newmilns and Greenholm
  • Catrine *
  • Auchinleck *
  • Darvel
  • Galston
  • Hurlford
  • Kilmarnock
  • Kilmaurs
  • Logan *
  • Lugar *
  • Mauchline *
  • Muirkirk *
  • Ochiltree*
  • Sorn *
  • Stewarton
  • Those towns marked * were not part of the original Kilmarnock and Loudoun, but were absorbed from the disbanded Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley.

    References

    Kilmarnock and Loudoun (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia