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East Kilbride and Strathaven
| East Kilbride and Strathaven |
|---|
| County constituencyfor the House of Commons |
| Interactive map of boundaries from 2024 |
| Boundary of East Kilbride and Strathaven in Scotland |
| South Lanarkshire |
| 75,161 (March 2020) |
| East Kilbride, Stonehouse, Strathaven |
| 2024 |
| Joani Reid (Independent) |
| One |
| East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow & Lanark and Hamilton East |
| East Kilbride, Central Scotland, Clydesdale, South Scotland |
East Kilbride and Strathaven is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election. It has been represented by Joani Reid since 2024; intitially as a Scottish Labour Party MP until she resigned the party whip in March 2026. Reid now sits as an independent.
The constituency comprises the following wards of South Lanarkshire:
- Avondale and Stonehouse, East Kilbride Central North, East Kilbride Central South, East Kilbride East, East Kilbride South and East Kilbride West.
The vast majority of the constituency comes from the abolished East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow constituency - excluding Lesmahagow and surrounding areas, which are now part of the new Hamilton and Clyde Valley constituency. A small section of the Avondale and Stonehouse ward came from the abolished Lanark and Hamilton East constituency.
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Joani Reid | Labour | |
| 2026 | Independent |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 22,682 | 48.6 | +27.0 | |
| SNP | 13,625 | 29.2 | −17.8 | |
| Conservative | 3,547 | 7.6 | −13.8 | |
| Reform | 3,377 | 7.2 | N/A | |
| Green | 1,811 | 3.9 | +1.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 1,074 | 2.3 | −4.6 | |
| Scottish Family | 505 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| UKIP | 86 | 0.2 | −0.9 | |
| 9,057 | 19.4 | N/A | ||
| 46,707 | 61.1 | −7.7 | ||
| 76,415 | ||||
| Labour gain from SNP | +22.4 |
| 2019 notional result | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | 24,311 | 47.0 | |
| Labour | 11,142 | 21.6 | |
| Conservative | 11,042 | 21.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 3,556 | 6.9 | |
| Scottish Greens | 1,074 | 2.1 | |
| UKIP | 559 | 1.1 | |
| Majority | 13,169 | 25.5 | |
| Turnout | 51,684 | 68.8 | |
| Electorate | 75,161 |
- East Kilbride and Strathaven UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK
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