Ochil and South Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Ochil and South Perthshire County constituency

Ochil and South Perthshire shown within Scotland
Created:	2005
MP:	Gordon Banks
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
Council areas:	Clackmannanshire/Perth and Kinross
EP constituency:	Scotland

Ochil and South Perthshire is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election, replacing most of Ochil and some of Perth.

The constituency covers the whole of the Clackmannanshire council area and the south of the Perth and Kinross council area.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Gordon Banks, Labour (2005–present)

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Ochil and South Perthshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gordon Banks	14,645	31.4	−2.0
	Scottish National Party	Annabelle Ewing	13,957	29.9	−1.7
	Conservative	Elizabeth Smith	10,021	21.5	−0.6
	Liberal Democrats	Catherine Whittingham	6,218	13.3	+2.8
	Scottish Green	George Baxter	978	2.1	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	Iain Campbell	420	0.9	−0.9
	UK Independence	David Bushby	275	0.6	N/A
	Free Scotland Party	Maitland Kelly	183	0.4	N/A
Majority			688	1.5
Turnout			46,697	66.0	+3.6
	Labour hold		Swing	−0.2

General Election 2001: Ochil
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Martin O’Neill	16,004	45.3	+0.3
	Scottish National Party	Keith Brown	10,655	30.2	−4.2
	Conservative	Alasdair Campbell	4,235	12.0	−2.6
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Edie	3,253	9.2	+4.0
	Scottish Socialist	Pauline Thomson	751	2.1	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	Flash Gordon Approaching	405	1.1	N/A
Majority			5,349	15.1
Turnout			35,303	61.3	−16.1
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

List of UK Parliamentary constituencies in Scotland

UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland
Labour	Aberdeen North \| Aberdeen South \| Airdrie and Shotts \| Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock \| Central Ayrshire \| Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill \| Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East \| Dumfries and Galloway \| Dundee West \| East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow \| East Lothian \| East Renfrewshire \| Edinburgh East \| Edinburgh North and Leith \| Edinburgh South \| Edinburgh South West \| Falkirk \| Glasgow Central \| Glasgow East \| Glasgow North \| Glasgow North West \| Glasgow South \| Glasgow South West \| Glenrothes \| Inverclyde \| Kilmarnock and Loudoun \| Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath \| Lanark and Hamilton East \| Linlithgow and East Falkirk \| Livingston \| Midlothian \| Motherwell and Wishaw \| North Ayrshire and Arran \| Ochil and South Perthshire \| Paisley and Renfrewshire North \| Paisley and Renfrewshire South \| Rutherglen and Hamilton West \| Stirling \| West Dunbartonshire
Liberal Democrat	Argyll and Bute \| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk \| Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross \| Dunfermline and West Fife \| East Dunbartonshire \| Edinburgh West \| Gordon \| Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey \| North East Fife \| Orkney and Shetland \| Ross, Skye and Lochaber \| West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
SNP	Angus \| Banff and Buchan \| Dundee East \| Moray \| Na h-Eileanan an Iar \| Perth and North Perthshire
Conservative and Unionist	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Speaker	Glasgow North East
Scotland European constituency: Labour (2) \| SNP (2) \| Conservative and Unionist (1) \| Liberal Democrats (1)