Strathkelvin and Bearsden (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Region or constituency of the Scottish Parliament
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Strathkelvin and Bearsden is a county constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of East Dunbartonshire.[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]
| Strathkelvin and Bearsden | |
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| County constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
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 Strathkelvin and Bearsden shown within the West Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Electoral region | West Scotland |
| Electorate | 63,417 (2026)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1999 |
| Party | Scottish Liberal Democrats |
| MSP | Adam Harley |
| Council area | East Dunbartonshire |
The seat has been held by Adam Harley of the Scottish Liberal Democrats since the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.
Electoral region
The other nine constituencies of the West Scotland region are: Clydebank and Milngavie, Cunninghame North, Cunninghame South, Dumbarton, Eastwood, Inverclyde, Paisley, Renfrewshire North and Cardonald, and Renfrewshire West and Levern Valley.[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 and council area
The Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, for the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, with the name and boundaries of the existing Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency of the UK House of Commons. Ahead of the 2005 United Kingdom general election the House of Commons constituencies in Scotland were altered, whilst the existing Scottish Parliament constituencies were retained, and there is now no longer any link between the two sets of boundaries.[5] The boundaries of the seat were altered slightly by the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries in 2011, but were left unchanged at the Second Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries in 2025.[6][7]
The rest of East Dunbartonshire is represented by the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency.[8]
The electoral wards of East Dunbartonshire Council used in the current creation of Strathkelvin and Bearsden are:[2]
Member of the Scottish Parliament
Election results
2020s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Adam Harley | 15,697 | 39.5 |  25.1 |
9,471 | 23.7 | 14.9 | |
| SNP | Denis Johnston | 13,125 | 33.0 |  12.5 |
9,513 | 23.8 | 12.9 | |
| Reform | Faten Hameed | 4,154 | 10.4 | New | 5,587 | 14.0 | 13.9 | |
| Labour | Colette McDiarmid | 4,678 | 11.8 | 6.6 |
5,440 | 13.6 | 6.0 | |
| Green | 4,944 | 12.4 | 4.1 | |||||
| Conservative | Pam Gosal[a] | 2,122 | 5.3 | 15.4 |
3,012 | 7.5 | 14.5 | |
| Liberal | 467 | 1.2 | New | |||||
| Scottish Family | 300 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |||||
| Independent Green Voice | 255 | 0.6 |  | |||||
| AtLS | 228 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 172 | 0.4 | New | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 148 | 0.4 | New | |||||
| ISP | 146 | 0.4 | New | |||||
| ADF | 96 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Independent | William Wallace | 60 | 0.2 | New | ||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 40 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| UKIP | 23 | 0.1 | | |||||
| Independent | Paddy McCarthy | 21 | 0.1 | N/A | ||||
| Scottish Common Party | 19 | 0.0 | New | |||||
| Independent | Paul Mack | 5 | 0.0 | New | ||||
| Majority | 2,572 | 6.5 | N/A | |||||
| Valid votes | 39,776 | 39,947 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 177 | 105 | ||||||
| Turnout | 39,953 | 63.0 | 9.0 |
40,052 | 63.2 | 9.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats gain from SNP | Swing | |||||||
Notes
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| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Rona Mackay[a] | 21,064 | 45.5 | 2.0 |
17,026 | 36.7 | 1.1 | |
| Conservative | Andrew Polson | 9,580 | 20.7 | 2.2 |
10,225 | 22.0 | 2.5 | |
| Labour Co-op | Callum McNally | 8,510 | 18.4 | 2.7 |
9,104 | 19.6 | 0.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Susan Murray | 6,675 | 14.4 | 1.9 |
4,099 | 8.8 | 0.4 | |
| Green | 3,873 | 8.3 | 1.7 | |||||
| Alba | 677 | 1.5 | New | |||||
| All for Unity | 412 | 0.9 | New | |||||
| Scottish Family | Liam McKechnie | 415 | 0.9 | New | 304 | 0.7 | New | |
| Independent Green Voice | 263 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 95 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Freedom Alliance (UK) | 84 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Reform | 61 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 44 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| TUSC | 32 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| UKIP | 31 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |||||
| Renew | 27 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| Independent | James Morrison | 18 | 0.0 | New | ||||
| Independent | Maurice Campbell | 10 | 0.0 | New | ||||
| Scotia Future | 6 | 0.0 | New | |||||
| Majority | 11,484 | 24.8 | 4.2 |
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| Valid votes | 46,244 | 46,391 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 119 | 74 | ||||||
| Turnout | 46,363 | 72.0 | 9.1 |
46,465 | 72.2 | 9.3 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | |||||||
2010s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Rona Mackay | 17,060 | 43.5 | 1.3 |
14,862 | 37.8 | 4.2 | |
| Conservative | Andrew Polson | 8,960 | 22.9 | 9.8 |
9,646 | 24.5 | 12.0 | |
| Labour | Margaret Mccarthy | 8,288 | 21.1 | 15.8 |
7,466 | 19.0 | 10.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Katy Gordon | 4,880 | 12.5 | 4.8 |
3,295 | 8.4 | 3.0 | |
| Green | 2,603 | 6.6 | 2.8 | |||||
| UKIP | 657 | 1.7 | 1.0 | |||||
| Scottish Christian | 312 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |||||
| Solidarity | 268 | 0.7 | 0.5 | |||||
| RISE | 167 | 0.4 | New | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 57 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| Majority | 8,100 | 20.6 | 15.3 |
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| Valid votes | 39,188 | 39,333 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 173 | 62 | ||||||
| Turnout | 39,361 | 62.9 | 5.8 |
39,395 | 62.9 | 5.8 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | |||||||
Notes | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Fiona McLeod | 14,258 | 42.2 | N/A | 14,187 | 42.0 | N/A | |
| Labour | David Whitton[a] | 12,456 | 36.9 | N/A | 10,032 | 29.7 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Stephanie Fraser | 4,438 | 13.1 | N/A | 4,236 | 12.5 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gordon Macdonald | 2,600 | 7.7 | N/A | 1,807 | 5.4 | N/A | |
| Green | 1,282 | 3.8 | N/A | |||||
| All-Scotland Pensioners Party | 508 | 1.5 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Christian | 376 | 1.1 | N/A | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 342 | 1.0 | N/A | |||||
| UKIP | 249 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
| BNP | 227 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 185 | 0.5 | N/A | |||||
| Solidarity | 56 | 0.2 | N/A | |||||
| Independent | Richard Vassie | 30 | 0.1 | N/A | ||||
| Others | 247 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
| Majority | 1,802 | 5.3 | N/A | |||||
| Valid votes | 33,752 | 33,764 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 149 | 118 | ||||||
| Turnout | 33,901 | 57.1 | N/A | 33,882 | 57.1 | N/A | ||
| SNP win (new seat) | ||||||||
2000s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Whitton | 11,396 | 31.1 | +1.2 | |
| SNP | Robin Easton | 8,008 | 21.9 | +8.2 | |
| Independent | Jean Turner | 6,742 | 18.4 | −12.7 | |
| Conservative | Stephanie Fraser | 5,178 | 14.2 | +2.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Cathy McInnes | 4,658 | 12.7 | −1.3 | |
| Scottish Christian | Bob Handyside | 613 | 1.7 | New | |
| Majority | 3,388 | 9.2 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 36,595 | 60.6 | |||
| Labour gain from Independent | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Jean Turner | 10,988 | 31.1 | N/A | |
| Labour | Brian Fitzpatrick | 10,550 | 29.9 | −20.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jo Swinson | 4,950 | 14.0 | +4.2 | |
| SNP | Fiona McLeod | 4,846 | 13.7 | −8.4 | |
| Conservative | Rory O'Brien | 4,002 | 11.3 | −5.1 | |
| Majority | 438 | 1.2 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 35,336 | ||||
| Independent gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Brian Fitzpatrick | 15,401 | 37.0 | −13.7 | |
| Independent | Jean Turner | 7,572 | 18.2 | New | |
| Liberal Democrats | John Morrison | 7,147 | 17.2 | +7.4 | |
| SNP | Janet Law | 6,457 | 15.5 | −6.6 | |
| Conservative | Charles Ferguson | 5,037 | 12.1 | −4.3 | |
| Majority | 7,829 | 18.8 | −9.8 | ||
| Turnout | 41,614 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
1990s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Sam Galbraith | 21,505 | 50.7 | N/A | |
| SNP | Fiona McLeod | 9,384 | 22.1 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Charles Ferguson | 6,934 | 16.4 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Anne Howarth | 4,144 | 9.8 | N/A | |
| Anti-Drug | Maxi Richards | 423 | 1.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 12,121 | 28.6 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 49,324 | N/A | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||