Cunninghame South (UK Parliament constituency)

Cunninghame South
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	North Ayrshire
1983–2005
Number of members	One
Replaced by	North Ayrshire & Arran Central Ayrshire
Created from	Ayrshire Central Bute and Northern Ayrshire^[1]

Cunninghame South was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster) from 1983 until 2005. It was represented by one Member of Parliament (MP) elected by the first-past-the-post system of election.

In 2005 a northern area of the constituency was merged with Cunninghame North to form North Ayrshire and Arran. The rest of the Cunninghame South constituency was merged with a northern area from Ayr and a small area from Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley to form Central Ayrshire.

The Cunninghame South constituency of the Scottish Parliament, which was created in 1999 with the same boundaries as the Westminster constituency, continues in existence unaltered.

Boundaries

The Cunninghame District electoral divisions of Irvine Central, Irvine South, and Kilwinning and Stevenston.

The constituency was created to cover part of the Cunninghame district of the Strathclyde region, and it included the town of Irvine. The rest of the district was covered by Cunninghame North.

In 1996 the district was reconstituted as the North Ayrshire council area.

General Election 1983: Cunninghame South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Lambie	19,344	54.1	N/A
	Conservative	Phil Gallie	7,576	21.2	N/A
	Liberal	John Alan Boss	6,370	17.8	N/A
	SNP	Kay Ullrich	2,451	6.9	N/A
Majority			11,768	32.9	N/A
Turnout			35,741	73.6	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

General Election 1987: Cunninghame South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Lambie	22,728	60.8	+6.7
	Conservative	Eric Rae Gibson	6,095	16.3	−6.9
	Liberal	John Alan Boss	4,426	11.9	−5.9
	SNP	Kay Ullrich	4,115	11.0	+5.1
Majority			16,633	46.6
Turnout			37,364	75.0	+1.4
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.8

General Election 1992: Cunninghame South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Brian Donohoe	19,687	52.9	−7.9
	SNP	Ricky Bell	9,007	24.2	+13.2
	Conservative	Sebastian Anthony Arbuthnot Leslie	6,070	16.3	+0.0
	Liberal Democrat	Brian James Ashley	2,299	6.2	−5.7
	Natural Law	William Turner Jackson	128	0.4	N/A
Majority			10,680	28.7
Turnout			37,191	75.9	+0.9
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Cunninghame South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Brian Donohoe	22,233	62.7	+9.8
	SNP	Mrs. Margaret Burgess	7,364	20.8	−3.4
	Conservative	Mrs Pamela M. Paterson	3,571	10.1	−6.2
	Liberal Democrat	Erlend Watson	1,604	4.5	−1.7
	Socialist Labour	Krishna Edwin	494	1.4	N/A
	Referendum	Allan Martlew	178	0.5	N/A
Majority			14,869	42.0
Turnout			35,444	71.5
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2001: Cunninghame South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Brian Donohoe	16,424	58.4	−4.3
	SNP	Bill Kidd	5,194	18.5	−2.3
	Conservative	Mrs Pamela Mildred Paterson	2,782	9.9	−0.2
	Liberal Democrat	John Robert Boyd	2,094	7.4	+2.9
	Scottish Socialist	Rosemary Byrne	1,233	4.4	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Bobby Cochrane	382	1.4	+0.0
Majority			11,230	39.9
Turnout			28,109	56.2	−15.3
	Labour hold		Swing

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