Latest headlines
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Victory for the SNP with 63 seats - two short of a majority
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Conservatives are the second largest party on 31 seats - but Labour on 24 lost 13 seats
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Scottish Greens are the fourth largest party with six seats, ahead of the Lib Dems who won five
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Scoreboard
| Party | Candidates | Votes | % | Net percentage change in seats |
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Party
SNP Scottish National Party |
Candidates Linda Fabiani | Votes 19,371 | 55.9% | Net percentage change in seats +7.9 |
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Party
LAB Scottish Labour |
Candidates Lizanne Handibode | Votes 8,392 | 24.2% | Net percentage change in seats −17.3 |
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Party
CON Scottish Conservatives |
Candidates Graham Simpson | Votes 5,857 | 16.9% | Net percentage change in seats +9.4 |
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Party
LD Scottish Lib Dems |
Candidates Paul McGarry | Votes 1,009 | 2.9% | Net percentage change in seats +1.3 |
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Change compared with 2011 |
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Turnout and Majority
Scottish National Party Majority
10,979Turnout
56.6%Constituency Profile
This constituency is based around Scotland's oldest new town - East Kilbride. Its post-war housing, built on former farm land, has attracted families who work in office-based centres and who commute into nearby Glasgow, 8 miles to the north west.
The area's Hairmyres Hospital was opened 10 years ago and was built with private finance initiative money. The constituency's good road and public transport links has attracted some big employers. These include HM Revenue and Customs, which has several large office in East Kilbride, although these are facing closure as the agency restructures its operations. The dairy company Robert Wiseman is also based in East Kilbride, and the town centre is occuped by a large shopping centre comprising six interlinked malls.
Labour's Andy Kerr represented the seat from the founding of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 until Linda Fabiani took it for the SNP in 2011.