| 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] |
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.
It was then replaced by the Coatbridge & Chryston constituency.
The Monklands District electoral divisions of Coatbridge North and Coatbridge South, and the Strathkelvin District electoral division of Chryston and Kelvin Valley.
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Tom Clarke | Labour | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Coatbridge & Chryston and Strathkelvin & Bearsden | ||
| 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 | New | |
| 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) | |||||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | ||||