Falkirk East (UK Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Falkirk East (Scottish Parliament constituency).

Falkirk East
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Falkirk
Major settlements	Falkirk
1983–2005
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Linlithgow & East Falkirk Falkirk

Falkirk East was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005. It was largely replaced by Linlithgow and East Falkirk, with some of its territory going to the new Falkirk constituency.

Boundaries

When created in 1983, it consisted of the Falkirk District electoral divisions of Bainsford, Dundas, Kalantyre, Sealock, Carriden, Kinneil, Braes, Laurmont, and Avonside. In the 1997 redistribution, Bainsford was transferred to Falkirk West, but otherwise the constituency remained the same until its abolition in 2005.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Harry Ewing	Labour
	1992	Michael Connarty	Labour
2005		constituency abolished: see Linlithgow and East Falkirk

Elections of the 1980s

General Election 1983: Falkirk East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Harry Ewing	17,956	47.7	N/A
	Conservative	D.D.M. Masterton	7,895	21.0	N/A
	Social Democratic	A.A.I. Wedderburn	6,967	18.5	N/A
	SNP	John McGregor	4,490	11.9	N/A
	Communist	Miss Fiona McGregor	334	0.9	N/A
Majority			10,061	26.7	N/A
Turnout			37,642	72.3	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

General Election 1987: Falkirk East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Harry Ewing	21,379	54.2	+6.5
	Conservative	Kenneth Henry Brookes	7,356	18.7	−2.3
	SNP	Ronald Neil Forbes Halliday	6,056	15.4	+3.5
	Social Democratic	Mrs. Elizabeth Graham Dick	4,624	11.7	−7.1
Majority			14,023	35.5
Turnout			39,415	75.0	+2.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections of the 1990s

General Election 1992: Falkirk East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Michael Connarty	18,423	46.1	−8.1
	SNP	Ronald Neil Forbes Halliday	10,454	26.2	+10.8
	Conservative	Keith Harding	8,279	20.7	+2.0
	Liberal Democrat	Miss Debra M. Storr	2,775	6.9	−4.8
Majority			7,969	20.0
Turnout			39,931	76.9
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Falkirk East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Michael Connarty	23,344	56.1
	SNP	Keith Brown	9,959	23.9
	Conservative	Malcolm Nicol	5,813	14.0
	Liberal Democrat	Rodger J. Spillane	2,153	5.2
	Referendum	Sebastian C. Mowbray	325	0.8
Majority			13,385	32.2
Turnout			41,594	73.2
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Elections of the 2000s

General Election 2001: Falkirk East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Michael Connarty	18,536	55.0	−1.1
	SNP	Isobel Hutton	7,824	23.2	−0.7
	Conservative	Ian William Stevenson	3,252	9.6	−4.4
	Liberal Democrat	Miss Karen Jane Utting	2,992	8.9	+3.7
	Scottish Socialist	Anthony Weir	725	2.2	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Raymond Stead	373	1.1	N/A
	Independent	Hugh Lynch	490	1.6	N/A
Majority			10,712	31.8
Turnout			33,702	58.5	−14.7
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing