Hamilton South (UK Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Hamilton South (Scottish Parliament constituency).

Hamilton South was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Formed in 1997 from the Hamilton constituency, it was abolished in 2005 and parts of the constituency went to make the constituencies of Lanark and Hamilton East and Rutherglen and Hamilton West.

Hamilton South
Former burgh constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Hamilton South in Scotland for the 2001 general election
1997–2005
Seats	One
Created from	Hamilton
Replaced by	Lanark & Hamilton East Rutherglen & Hamilton West

Boundaries

The Hamilton District electoral divisions of Blantyre and Burnbank, Hamilton South, and Hamilton West.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party	Notes
	1997	George Robertson	Labour	resigned 1999 to become Secretary General of NATO
	1999 by-election	Bill Tynan	Labour

Election results

Elections of the 2000s

General election 2001: Hamilton South^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bill Tynan	15,965	59.7	−5.9
	SNP	John Wilson	5,190	19.4	+1.8
	Liberal Democrats	John Oswald	2,388	8.9	+3.8
	Conservative	Dr. Neil Richardson	1,876	7.0	−1.6
	Scottish Socialist	Georgina (Gena) Mitchell	1,187	4.4	N/A
	UKIP	Janice Murdoch	151	0.6	N/A
Majority			10,775	40.3	−7.7
Turnout			26,757	57.3	−13.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections of the 1990s

By-election 1999: Hamilton South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bill Tynan	7,172	36.9	−28.7
	SNP	Annabelle Ewing	6,616	34.0	+16.4
	Scottish Socialist	Shareen Blackall	1,847	9.5	New
	Conservative	Charles Ferguson	1,406	7.2	−1.4
	Independent	Stephen A. Mungall	1,075	5.5	New
	Liberal Democrats	Marilyne A. MacLaren	634	3.3	−1.8
	ProLife Alliance	Monica Burns	257	1.3	−0.8
	Socialist Labour	Tom Dewar	238	1.2	New
	Scottish Unionist Party (modern)	Jim W. Reid	113	0.6	New
	UKIP	Alastair D. McConnachie	61	0.3	New
	Natural Law	George W. Stidolph	18	0.1	New
	Independent	John S.H. Moray	17	0.1	New
Majority			556	2.9	−45.1
Turnout			19,454	41.3	−29.8
	Labour hold		Swing	-22.6

Mungall used the description "Hamilton Accies Home, Watson Away", referring to demands by some fans that Hamilton Academical should play their home matches locally and that Watson, the chairman, should go. He was a member of the Socialist Labour Party.

General election 1997: Hamilton South^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Robertson	21,709	65.6
	SNP	Ian Black	5,831	17.6
	Conservative	Robert Kilgour	2,858	8.6
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Pitts	1,693	5.1
	ProLife Alliance	Colin S. Gunn	684	2.1
	Referendum	Stuart W. Brown	316	1.0
Majority			15,878	48.0
Turnout			33,091	71.1
	Labour win (new seat)