Renfrewshire North and Cardonald
Constituency of the Scottish Parliament
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Renfrewshire North and Cardonald is a burgh constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering parts of the council areas of Renfrewshire and Glasgow.[2] Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.[3]
| Renfrewshire North and Cardonald | |
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| Burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
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 Renfrewshire North and Cardonald shown within the West Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Electoral region | West Scotland |
| Electorate | 63,745 (2022)[1] |
| Major settlements | Bishopton, Cardonald, Erskine, Renfrew |
| Future constituency | |
| Created | 2026 |
| Seats | 1 |
| Council area | Renfrewshire, Glasgow |
| Created from | Renfrewshire North and West, Glasgow Pollok |
The seat was created by the Second Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries in 2025, and is expected to be first contested at the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.
Electoral region
The other nine constituencies of the West Scotland region are: Cunninghame North, Cunninghame South, Clydebank and Milngavie, Dumbarton, Eastwood, Inverclyde, Paisley, Renfrewshire West and Levern Valley, and Strathkelvin and Bearsden.[3] The region covers the whole of the council areas of East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, and West Dunbartonshire; and parts of the council areas of Argyll and Bute, East Ayrshire, and Glasgow.[4]
Constituency boundaries
The constituency was formed at the Second Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries in 2025, when Boundaries Scotland determined that due to a relative decline in population compared to other parts of Scotland, the Glasgow and Greater Renfrewshire region was required to lose one seat. As a result, a seat crossing the boundary between Renfrewshire and Glasgow was established.[5] Renfrewshire North and Cardonald is largely a replacement for Renfrewshire North and West, but also including areas that were formerly in the Glasgow Pollok constituency. Both of these constituencies were abolished as a result of the second periodic review.[6] Following this review, the Renfrewshire North and Cardonald seat comprises the following electoral wards of Renfrewshire Council and Glasgow City Council:[2]
- Renfrewshire:
- Renfrew North and Braehead (entire ward)
- Renfrew South and Gallowhill (shared with Paisley)
- Bishopton, Bridge of Weir and Langbank (shared with Renfrewshire West and Levern Valley)
- Erskine and Inchinnan (entire ward)
- Glasgow:
- Cardonald (entire ward)
Election results
2020s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Michelle Simone Campbell | 14,300 | 40.9 | −8.5 | 9,936 | 28.4 | N/A | |
| Labour | Mike McKirdy | 9,424 | 26.9 | −1.1 | 7,501 | 21.4 | N/A | |
| Reform | Moira Ramage | 7,083 | 20.2 | New | 7,204 | 20.6 | N/A | |
| Green | 4,460 | 12.7 | N/A | |||||
| Conservative | Jack Hall | 1,929 | 5.5 | −12.2 | 2,309 | 6.6 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Grant Robert Toghill | 1,642 | 4.7 | +2.5 | 1,401 | 4.0 | N/A | |
| TUSC | Jim Halfpenny | 610 | 1.7 | New | ||||
| AtLS | 379 | 1.1 | N/A | |||||
| Independent Green Voice | 372 | 1.1 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Family | 320 | 1.0 | N/A | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 299 | 0.9 | N/A | |||||
| ISP | 191 | 0.5 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 174 | 0.5 | N/A | |||||
| Liberal | 160 | 0.5 | N/A | |||||
| Alliance for Democracy and Freedom Scotland | 87 | 0.2 | N/A | |||||
| Independent | William Wallace | 87 | 0.2 | N/A | ||||
| UKIP | 44 | 0.1 | N/A | |||||
| Independent | Paddy McCarthy | 33 | 0.1 | N/A | ||||
| Scottish Common Party | 32 | 0.1 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 29 | 0.1 | N/A | |||||
| Independent | Paul Mack | 15 | 0.0 | N/A | ||||
| Majority | 4,876 | 13.9 | N/A | |||||
| Valid votes | 34,988 | 35,033 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 162 | 109 | ||||||
| Turnout | 35,150 | 53.8 | N/A | 35,142 | 53.7 | N/A | ||
| SNP win (new boundaries) | ||||||||
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