Cumbernauld and Kilsyth (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Region or constituency of the Scottish Parliament
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Cumbernauld and Kilsyth (Gaelic: Comar nan Allt agus Cill Saidh) is a burgh constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of North Lanarkshire.[2] It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it is also one of nine constituencies in the Central Scotland and Lothians West 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.
| Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | |
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| Burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
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 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth shown within the Central Scotland and Lothians West electoral region, and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Electoral region | Central Scotland and Lothians West |
| Electorate | 50,828 (2026)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2011 |
| Party | Scottish National Party |
| MSP | Jamie Hepburn |
| Council area | North Lanarkshire |
The seat has been held by Jamie Hepburn of the Scottish National Party since the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.
Electoral region
The other eight constituencies of the Central Scotland and Lothians West region are Airdrie, Almond Valley, Bathgate, Coatbridge and Chryston, Falkirk East and Linlithgow, Falkirk West, Motherwell and Wishaw, and Uddingston and Bellshill.[3] The region covers all of the Falkirk, North Lanarkshire and West Lothian council areas, and part of the South Lanarkshire council area.
Prior to 2026, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth formed part of the Central Scotland Scottish Parliament region. The other eight constituencies of this region were: Airdrie and Shotts, Coatbridge and Chryston, East Kilbride, Falkirk East, Falkirk West, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, Motherwell and Wishaw and Uddingston and Bellshill. The region covered 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 area
The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, for the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, using the name and boundaries of the existing Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency of the UK Parliament. Ahead of the 2005 United Kingdom general election, Scottish constituencies for the UK Parliament were mostly replaced with new constituencies,[4] whilst initially being retained for election to the Scottish Parliament. Scottish Parliament constituencies were themselves reviewed ahead of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, however Cumbernauld and Kilsyth was left, being the only mainland seat to remain unchanged during this review.[5] The seat also remained unchanged following the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries.[6]
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth is one of four covering the North Lanarkshire council area, the others being Airdrie, Coatbridge and Chryston, and Motherwell and Wishaw; Uddingston and Bellshill spans parts of both North and South Lanarkshire. All five are within the Central Scotland electoral region.
Following the first Scottish Parliamentary Boundary Review the electoral wards forming Cumbernauld and Kilsyth were:
- In full: Cumbernauld East, Cumbernauld North, Cumbernauld South, Kilsyth
When redrawn following the second review of Scottish Parliament boundaries, the same electoral wards were used to redefine the seat.[2]
Member of the Scottish Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Cathie Craigie | Labour | |
| 2011 | Jamie Hepburn | SNP | |
Election results
2020s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Jamie Hepburn[a] | 13,787 | 50.8 |  7.8 |
9,574 | 35.2 | 14.2 | |
| Labour | James McPhilemy | 6,472 | 23.8 | 5.4 |
5,575 | 20.5 | 2.7 | |
| Reform | Steve Grant | 4,580 | 16.9 | New | 4,798 | 17.7 |  17.5 | |
| Green | 3,562 | 13.1 | 6.4 | |||||
| Conservative | Keith Allan | 1,129 | 4.2 | 5.9 |
1393 | 5.1 | 8.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | William Howieson | 949 | 3.5 | 1.5 |
984 | 3.6 | 1.9 | |
| Scottish Family | 299 | 1.1 | 0.3 | |||||
| Sovereignty | Alan McManus[b] | 226 | 0.8 | New | 281 | 1.0 | New | |
| Independent Green Voice | 259 | 1.0 | 0.4 | |||||
| ISP | 159 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 112 | 0.4 | New | |||||
| Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 64 | 0.2 |  | |||||
| Workers Party | 44 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Advance UK | 34 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 20 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||
| UKIP | 18 | 0.1 | | |||||
| Majority | 7,315 | 26.9 | 2.4 |
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| Valid votes | 27,143 | 27,176 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 106 | 81 | ||||||
| Turnout | 27,249 | 53.6 | 11.7 |
27,257 | 53.6 | 11.7 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | 1.2 |
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| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Jamie Hepburn[a] | 19,633 | 58.6 | 1.5 |
16,592 | 49.5 | 2.9 | |
| Labour | Mark Griffin[b] | 9,792 | 29.2 | 2.6 |
7,787 | 23.2 | 0.4 | |
| Conservative | Haroun Malik | 3,375 | 10.1 | 0.7 |
4,679 | 13.9 | 1.8 | |
| Green | 2,260 | 6.7 | 1.7 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Elaine Ford | 678 | 2.0 | 0.4 |
575 | 1.7 | 0.2 | |
| Alba | 568 | 1.7 | New | |||||
| All for Unity | 258 | 0.8 | New | |||||
| Scottish Family | 257 | 0.8 | New | |||||
| Independent Green Voice | 198 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| Independent | Paddy Hogg | 86 | 0.3 | New | ||||
| Freedom Alliance (UK) | 78 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 68 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Reform | 54 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 48 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| UKIP | 38 | 0.1 | 1.9 | |||||
| Majority | 9,841 | 29.4 | 4.1 |
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| Valid votes | 33,478 | 33,546 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 115 | 52 | ||||||
| Turnout | 33,593 | 65.3 | 8.5 |
33,598 | 65.3 | 8.4 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | |||||||
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2010s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Jamie Hepburn | 17,015 | 60.1 | 6.3 |
14,863 | 52.4 | 1.2 | |
| Labour | Mark Griffin | 7,537 | 26.6 | 13.5 |
6,683 | 23.6 | 10.6 | |
| Conservative | Anthony Newman | 3,068 | 10.8 | 6.2 |
3,441 | 12.1 | 8.0 | |
| Green | 1,431 | 5.0 | 2.7 | |||||
| UKIP | 579 | 2.0 | 1.7 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Irene Lang | 688 | 2.4 | 0.9 |
541 | 1.9 | 0.8 | |
| RISE | 265 | 0.9 | New | |||||
| Solidarity | 263 | 0.9 | 0.7 | |||||
| Scottish Christian | 255 | 0.9 | 0.5 | |||||
| Independent | Deryck Beaumont | 51 | 0.2 | New | ||||
| Majority | 9,478 | 33.5 | 19.8 |
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| Valid votes | 28,308 | 28,372 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 93 | 58 | ||||||
| Turnout | 28,401 | 56.8 | 4.1 |
28,430 | 56.9 | 4.5 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | 9.9 |
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| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Jamie Hepburn | 13,595 | 53.8 | 13.6 |
12,873 | 51.2 | ||
| Labour | Cathie Craigie | 10,136 | 40.1 | 7.9 |
8,607 | 34.2 | ||
| Conservative | James Boswell | 1,156 | 4.6 | 0.9 |
1,021 | 4.1 | ||
| All-Scotland Pensioners Party | 577 | 2.3 | ||||||
| Green | 577 | 2.3 | ||||||
| Scottish Christian | 363 | 1.4 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Martin Oliver | 367 | 1.5 | 4.8 |
270 | 1.1 | ||
| BNP | 207 | 0.8 | ||||||
| Independent | Hugh O'Donnell | 156 | 0.6 | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 101 | 0.4 | ||||||
| Scottish Socialist | 97 | 0.4 | ||||||
| UKIP | 85 | 0.3 | ||||||
| Solidarity | 42 | 0.2 | ||||||
| Others | 160 | 0.6 | ||||||
| Majority | 3,459 | 13.7 | ||||||
| Valid votes | 25,254 | 25,136 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 69 | 55 | ||||||
| Turnout | 25,323 | 52.7 | 0.9 |
25,191 | 52.5 | |||
| SNP gain from Labour | Swing | 10.8 |
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2000s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Cathie Craigie | 12,672 | 48.0 | +6.4 | |
| SNP | Jamie Hepburn | 10,593 | 40.2 | +0.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Hugh O'Donnell | 1,670 | 6.3 | +1.1 | |
| Conservative | Anne Harding | 1,447 | 5.5 | +1.5 | |
| Majority | 2,079 | 7.8 | +5.6 | ||
| Rejected ballots | 803 | 3.0 | |||
| Turnout | 26,382 | 53.6 | +3.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -2.8 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Cathie Craigie | 10,146 | 41.6 | −8.0 | |
| SNP | Andrew Wilson | 9,626 | 39.4 | +3.7 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Kenny McEwan | 1,823 | 7.5 | +3.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Hugh O'Donnell | 1,264 | 5.2 | −1.4 | |
| Conservative | Margaret McCulloch | 978 | 4.0 | −0.5 | |
| Independent | Christopher Donohue | 567 | 2.3 | New | |
| Majority | 520 | 2.2 | −11.7 | ||
| Turnout | 24,404 | 50.1 | −11.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
1990s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Cathie Craigie | 15,182 | 49.6 | N/A | |
| SNP | Andrew Wilson | 10,923 | 35.7 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Hugh O'Donnell | 2,029 | 6.6 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Robin Slack | 1,362 | 4.5 | N/A | |
| Scottish Socialist | Kenny McEwan | 1,116 | 3.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,259 | 13.9 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 30,612 | 62.0 | N/A | ||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||