BBC Profile:
After 1979, the seat remained in Labour hands despite Conservative victories nationally. In 1983 the seat was redrawn and renamed Clydesdale; however, the addition of rural voters to the south of Lanark did not diminish Labour's majority. On Judith Hart's retirement in 1987 Jimmy Hood doubled Harts' 1983 majority, increasing it to a high of 13,809 in 1997.
2005 boundary changes created the new Lanark and Hamilton East constituency. Several southern Clyde Valley wards were lost, as were Stonehouse and Lesmahagow. Uddingston and Bothwell to the north were added, as well as the populous eastern wards of Hamilton.
The Liberal Democrats were Jimmy Hood's closest challengers in the new seat but he won with a majority just under 12,000.
There are no boundary changes affecting this seat.
This constituency forms a narrow urban strip running south-west from the Glasgow suburbs, along the northernmost boundary of the South Lanarkshire council area.
New Lanark was founded in 1785 as a model industrial community by Robert Owen, the most successful cotton-mill entrepreneur of his day. The whole of Hamilton, Lanark and their environs boomed and declined with cotton and coal but by the 1930s Hamilton was declared a distressed area as the factories and mills closed all over the Clyde valley. However, the areas proximity to Glasgow transformed it into a commuter base for professionals and public administrators.
Light engineering survives in the towns of Lanark,
[More...]BBC Profile:
After 1979, the seat remained in Labour hands despite Conservative victories nationally. In 1983 the seat was redrawn and renamed Clydesdale; however, the addition of rural voters to the south of Lanark did not diminish Labour's majority. On Judith Hart's retirement in 1987 Jimmy Hood doubled Harts' 1983 majority, increasing it to a high of 13,809 in 1997.
2005 boundary changes created the new Lanark and Hamilton East constituency. Several southern Clyde Valley wards were lost, as were Stonehouse and Lesmahagow. Uddingston and Bothwell to the north were added, as well as the populous eastern wards of Hamilton.
The Liberal Democrats were Jimmy Hood's closest challengers in the new seat but he won with a majority just under 12,000.
There are no boundary changes affecting this seat.
This constituency forms a narrow urban strip running south-west from the Glasgow suburbs, along the northernmost boundary of the South Lanarkshire council area.
New Lanark was founded in 1785 as a model industrial community by Robert Owen, the most successful cotton-mill entrepreneur of his day. The whole of Hamilton, Lanark and their environs boomed and declined with cotton and coal but by the 1930s Hamilton was declared a distressed area as the factories and mills closed all over the Clyde valley. However, the areas proximity to Glasgow transformed it into a commuter base for professionals and public administrators.
Light engineering survives in the towns of Lanark, Biggar, Larkhall and Stonehouse, and the extraction of sand and gravel still takes place around Carstairs and Lanark. Coal and cotton survive mainly as heritage sites: New Lanark is now a major tourist attraction and a world heritage site. Hamilton Park Racecourse and Summerlee Raceway at Larkhall also attract day-trippers to the constituency.
Rallings & Thrasher Notional:
No Boundary Changes
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