East Kilbride and Strathaven
Scotland · County constituency · South Lanarkshire
About the East Kilbride and Strathaven constituency
East Kilbride and Strathaven is a county constituency in Scotland. The sitting MP is Joani Reid (Labour), MP since July 2024. At the 2024 general election, Labour won with 48.6% to 29.2% for the SNP, a majority of 9,057 votes on a 61.1% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has Labour on 32.6% and the SNP on 31.6%, a margin of 1.0 points.
Who lives in East Kilbride and Strathaven? Constituency demographics
From Scotland's 2022 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did East Kilbride and Strathaven vote in 2024 and how would it vote now?
2024 vote shares from the HoC Library. Current projection is at the 7-poll average.
2024 general election
Current projection
Map of East Kilbride and Strathaven
Switch between GE2024 ward winners (modelled estimates, ~4pp average error) and a demographic view from Scotland's 2022 Census. Hover any area for detail. How the map is built ›
How East Kilbride and Strathaven voted at the Scottish Parliament election (7 May 2026)
East Kilbride and Strathaven crosses multiple Holyrood boundaries (approximate share of the seat's area in each): Clydesdale (78%), East Kilbride (15%), Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse (4%). Scotland uses the Additional Member System: voters cast one ballot for a constituency MSP and a second for a regional list. The figures below are the constituency vote.
| Holyrood constituency | Approx. share of East Kilbride and Strathaven's area | Winner | Runner-up | Elected MSP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clydesdale | 78% | SNP 36.3% | Labour 24.1% | Màiri McAllan |
| East Kilbride | 15% | SNP 42.4% | Labour 27.8% | Collette Stevenson |
| Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse | 4% | SNP 37.8% | Labour 29.2% | Alex Kerr |
Holyrood 2026 constituency results from official declarations. Overlap percentages are approximate shares of the Westminster seat's land area, not of its electorate. They come from an area overlay of the post-2024 Westminster boundary on simplified Holyrood second-review boundaries (in force from 7 May 2026), so they do not always sum to 100% and small overlaps may be artefacts of the simplified boundaries.
East Kilbride and Strathaven within South Lanarkshire
East Kilbride and Strathaven sits entirely within South Lanarkshire Council. South Lanarkshire was not due to vote in 2026, so the figures below are the most recent ward results with vote counts available. About this layer ›
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat |
|---|---|
| South Lanarkshire | 100% |
Recent council by-elections
Council ward by-elections held inside this seat, most recent first. The result column shows which party won; the share column shows the top three parties’ vote shares on the day.
| Date | Ward | Result | Top 3 vote shares |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Sep 2026 | Avondale and Stonehouse | SNP GAIN from Ind | SNP 28% Lab 20% Ref 20% |
| 7 Jul 2023 | East Kilbride West | Lab GAIN from SNP | Lab 40% Con 26% SNP 23% |
Most recent council ward results
Latest council result per ward, from the most recent election with vote counts available. How this table is sourced ›
Scottish council wards elect several councillors each by STV, so for these wards the table shows first preferences, not seats: the party with the most first-preference votes and each other party's share. 2022 figures are from the official cast-vote records.
| Ward | GE2024 winner | Latest council first preferences | Shift since GE2024 | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avondale and Stonehouse | Labour 46.0%vs SNP 28.7% | 2022 SNP 28.4%Independent 23.7%, Conservative 20.6%, Labour 19.8%, Green 6.4%, Others 1.1% | - | 36.4% |
| East Kilbride Central North | Labour 54.5%vs SNP 29.9% | 2022 SNP 43.8%Labour 37.3%, Conservative 12.2%, Independent 3.4%, Lib Dem 3.3% | - | 44.4% |
| East Kilbride Central South | Labour 56.2%vs SNP 30.1% | 2022 SNP 43.9%Labour 38.6%, Conservative 9.1%, Green 3.9%, Lib Dem 2.6%, Others 1.9% | - | 18.7% |
| East Kilbride East | Labour 49.5%vs SNP 30.2% | 2022 SNP 37.4%Labour 27.0%, Conservative 13.5%, Green 12.7%, Independent 6.8%, Lib Dem 2.6% | - | 45.2% |
| East Kilbride South | Labour 45.9%vs SNP 36.3% | 2022 SNP 48.7%Labour 23.0%, Lib Dem 13.7%, Conservative 8.7%, Others 3.0%, Green 2.9% | - | 26.4% |
| East Kilbride West | Labour 51.4%vs SNP 28.2% | 2022 SNP 30.9%Labour 26.5%, Conservative 20.0%, Independent 18.6%, Lib Dem 2.1%, Others 1.9% | - | 50.4% |
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for East Kilbride and Strathaven at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won East Kilbride and Strathaven at past general elections?
2024 and notional 2019 rows are on current boundaries; 2010-2017 rows are on the boundaries in force at the time. More on boundaries ›
| Year | Result | MP | Lab | Con | LD | SNP | Majority | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010predecessor | Lab hold | Michael McCann East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow MP | 51.5% | 13.0% | 9.9% | 23.0% | 14,503 | 66.6% |
| 2015predecessor | SNP gain from Lab | Lisa Cameron East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow MP | 28.3% | 11.8% | 1.7% | 55.6% | 16,527 | 72.8%+6.2 |
| 2017predecessor | SNP hold | Lisa Cameron East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow MP | 31.7% | 25.3% | 2.9% | 38.9% | 3,866 | 67.3%-5.5 |
| 2019notional | Scottish National Party winner | Lisa Cameron East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow MP, pre-review boundary | 21.6% | 21.4% | 6.9% | 47.0% | 13,169 | 68.8% |
| 2024 | Lab gain from SNP | Joani Reid | 48.6% | 7.6% | 2.3% | 29.2% | 9,057 | 61.1%-7.7 |
East Kilbride and Strathaven was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow (the seat that covered most of this area), so vote shares and majorities aren’t directly comparable to the post-2024 figures.
Constituencies most like East Kilbride and Strathaven
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to East Kilbride and Strathaven. Politics shown for context.
- ↓Leave36.8 / 40.7vs 53.2
- ↑Graduate45.4 / 46.9vs 33.7
- ↓Private rent9.9 / 10.6vs 20.2
- ↓Leave36.8 / 35.4vs 53.2
- ↑Owner-occupied73.7 / 74.4vs 61.9
- ↑Graduate45.4 / 42.9vs 33.7
- ↓Leave36.8 / 36.6vs 53.2
- ↓Private rent9.9 / 9.3vs 20.2
- ↑Graduate45.4 / 42.0vs 33.7
- ↓Leave36.8 / 35.5vs 53.2
- ↑Graduate45.4 / 45.3vs 33.7
- ↓Private rent9.9 / 10.4vs 20.2
- ↓Leave36.8 / 40.3vs 53.2
- ↓Private rent9.9 / 8.3vs 20.2
- ↑Graduate45.4 / 43.5vs 33.7
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Related
Sources
Every figure on this page is computed from the sources below. Read the full methodology ›
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- 2024 general election results · UK Parliament Election Results portal and House of Commons Library briefing CBP-10009.
- Notional 2019 results on 2024 boundaries · UK Parliament Election Results portal. Recalculated by Parliament; carries assumptions about how 2019 voters would have distributed across the redrawn boundaries.
- Historic general election results (2010-2017) · House of Commons Library historic results files (on the boundaries in force at the time).
- Ward-level GE2024 estimates · Britain Elects / New Statesman - article by Ben Walker, underlying spreadsheet. Modelled from constituency totals; average ~4pp per-ward MoE.
- May 2026 council ward results · Democracy Club via PollCheck's locals 2026 dataset.
- Earlier council ward results (2014-2024) · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's LEAP dataset and Democracy Club).
- Demographics · ONS Census 2021 (England and Wales), aggregated to constituency level using the ONS LSOA21 -> PCON24 best-fit lookup.
- EU referendum 2016 estimates · Constituency-level Leave vote estimates (Hanretty 2017 method).
- MP details and Cabinet roles · UK Parliament Members API. MP photos are fetched live from the same source.
- Boundary geometry and lookups · ONS Open Geography Portal (PCON24 boundaries, LSOA21 boundaries, LSOA21-WD24-LAD24 best-fit lookup).
- Current projection and trajectory · PollCheck's demographic model at the rolling 7-poll average from aggregated GB polls, built from the British Election Study Internet Panel (Fieldhouse et al.), Census 2021 (ONS) and Scotland's Census 2022 (NRS). The trajectory was recalculated with the current model, introduced in autumn 2026.
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