Monklands West (UK Parliament constituency)

Monklands West was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Monklands West
Former constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Monklands
1983–1997
Seats	One
Created from	Bothwell, Coatbridge & Airdrie, Central Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire and West Stirlingshire[1]
Replaced by	Coatbridge & Chryston and Strathkelvin & Bearsden[1]

It was then replaced by the Coatbridge & Chryston constituency.

Boundaries

The Monklands District electoral divisions of Coatbridge North and Coatbridge South, and the Strathkelvin District electoral division of Chryston and Kelvin Valley.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Tom Clarke	Labour
1997		constituency abolished: see Coatbridge & Chryston and Strathkelvin & Bearsden

Election results

Elections of the 1980s

General election 1983: Monklands West^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tom Clarke	20,642	54.2	−8.0
	Conservative	Laurence Cameron	8,378	22.0	−7.9
	SDP	Rodney Ackland	6,605	17.3
	SNP	George Lyon	2,473	6.5	−1.3
Majority			12,264	32.2	−0.1
Turnout			38,098	75.7
	Labour win (new seat)

General election 1987: Monklands West^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tom Clarke	24,449	62.3	+8.1
	Conservative	Gordon Lind	6,166	15.7	−6.3
	SDP	Anne McQueen	4,408	11.2	−6.1
	SNP	Keith Bovey	4,260	10.8	+4.3
Majority			18,333	46.6	+14.4
Turnout			39,333	77.3	+1.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+7.2

Elections of the 1990s

General election 1992: Monklands West^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tom Clarke	23,384	61.3	−1.0
	SNP	Keith Bovey	6,319	16.6	+5.8
	Conservative	Andrew Lownie	6,074	15.9	+0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Shiona Hamilton	2,382	6.2	−5.0
Majority			17,065	44.7	−1.9
Turnout			38,159	77.4	+0.1
	Labour hold		Swing