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Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse
burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament
Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse shown within the Central Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	Christina McKelvie
Council area	South Lanarkshire

Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

For the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, Hamilton North and Bellshill, and Hamilton South constituencies were significantly redrawn. Two new seats - Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse and Uddingston and Bellshill - were fought on the new boundaries.

Electoral region

The other eight constituencies of the Central Scotland region are Airdrie and Shotts, Coatbridge and Chryston, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, East Kilbride, Falkirk East, Falkirk West, Motherwell and Wishaw and Uddingston and Bellshill.

The region covers all of the Falkirk council area, all of the North Lanarkshire council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council area.

Constituency boundaries and council areas

The rest of the South Lanarkshire area is covered by another four constituencies: East Kilbride and Uddingston and Bellshill, which are within the Central Scotland region. Rutherglen, within the Glasgow region, and Clydesdale, within the South Scotland region.

The Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse constituency consists of the following electoral wards:

• In full: Hamilton West and Earnock, Hamilton South, Larkhall
  


• In part: Avondale and Stonehouse (shared with Clydesdale), Hamilton North and East (shared with Uddingston and Bellshill)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse[1][2]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SNP	Y Christina McKelvie		12,202	48.13	+17.68	11,666	45.77
	Labour	N Tom McCabe		9,989	39.40	-4.31	8,571	33.62
	Conservative	Margaret Mitchell		2,547	10.05	-3.83	1,984	7.78
	Liberal Democrats	Ewan Hoyle		616	2.43	-5.54	419	1.64
	Scottish Green						720	2.82
	All Scotland Pensioners Party						657	2.58
	Scottish Christian						332	1.30
	BNP						228	0.89
	Socialist Labour						220	0.86
	Scottish Unionist						206	0.81
	UKIP						170	0.67
	Independent - Hugh O'Donnell						88	0.35
	Scottish Socialist						65	0.25
	Solidarity						50	0.20
	Scottish Homeland Party						31	0.13
Informal votes				92			84
Total Valid votes				25,354			25,407
	SNP gain from Labour		Majority	2,213	8.73

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