Hamilton and Clyde Valley
Scotland · County constituency · South Lanarkshire
About the Hamilton and Clyde Valley constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley is a county constituency in Scotland. The sitting MP is Imogen Walker (Labour), MP since July 2024. At the 2024 general election, Labour won with 50.0% to 27.4% for the SNP, a majority of 9,472 votes on a 55.8% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has Labour on 32.5% and the SNP on 28.9%, a margin of 3.6 points.
Who lives in Hamilton and Clyde Valley? Constituency demographics
From Scotland's 2022 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did Hamilton and Clyde Valley 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 Hamilton and Clyde Valley
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 Hamilton and Clyde Valley voted at the Scottish Parliament election (7 May 2026)
Hamilton and Clyde Valley crosses multiple Holyrood boundaries (approximate share of the seat's area in each): Clydesdale (62%), Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse (34%), Uddingston and Bellshill (1%), Motherwell and Wishaw (1%). 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 Hamilton and Clyde Valley's area | Winner | Runner-up | Elected MSP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clydesdale | 62% | SNP 36.3% | Labour 24.1% | Màiri McAllan |
| Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse | 34% | SNP 37.8% | Labour 29.2% | Alex Kerr |
| Uddingston and Bellshill | 1% | SNP 41.5% | Labour 29.1% | Steven Bonnar |
| Motherwell and Wishaw | 1% | SNP 43.7% | Labour 23.6% | Clare Adamson |
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.
Hamilton and Clyde Valley within South Lanarkshire
Hamilton and Clyde Valley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Jul 2026 | Larkhall | Ref GAIN from Lab | Ref 35% SNP 30% Lab 24% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blantyre | Labour 58.4%vs SNP 30.8% | 2022 Labour 44.8%SNP 42.1%, Conservative 7.7%, Green 3.2%, Lib Dem 2.1% | - | 15.8% |
| Clydesdale North | Labour 50.2%vs SNP 27.1% | 2022 Labour 33.8%SNP 33.4%, Conservative 26.9%, Independent 5.9% | - | 47.8% |
| Clydesdale South | Labour 43.8%vs SNP 29.7% | 2022 SNP 33.5%Labour 25.9%, Conservative 18.8%, Independent 17.7%, Green 3.1%, Others 1.0% | - | 32.6% |
| Clydesdale West | Labour 55.5%vs SNP 28.7% | 2022 Labour 38.2%SNP 32.7%, Conservative 23.6%, Green 3.1%, Lib Dem 2.5% | - | 47.1% |
| Hamilton North and East | Labour 50.7%vs SNP 30.8% | 2022 SNP 40.9%Labour 32.4%, Conservative 19.0%, Lib Dem 5.2%, Independent 2.6% | - | 39.5% |
| Hamilton South | Labour 56.1%vs SNP 27.5% | 2022 Labour 45.4%SNP 41.4%, Conservative 13.1% | - | 44.2% |
| Hamilton West and Earnock | Labour 50.1%vs SNP 31.7% | 2022 SNP 41.4%Labour 30.7%, Conservative 12.9%, Lib Dem 11.9%, Green 3.1% | - | 38.6% |
| Larkhall | Labour 53.4%vs SNP 25.8% | 2022 Labour 33.0%SNP 28.9%, Conservative 24.5%, Independent 10.3%, Lib Dem 2.4%, Others 0.9% | - | 21.5% |
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for Hamilton and Clyde Valley at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won Hamilton and Clyde Valley 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 | Jim Hood Lanark and Hamilton East MP | 50.0% | 15.0% | 11.3% | 21.0% | 13,478 | 62.3% |
| 2015predecessor | SNP gain from Lab | Angela Crawley Lanark and Hamilton East MP | 30.5% | 15.9% | 2.2% | 48.8% | 10,100 | 69.1%+6.8 |
| 2017predecessor | SNP hold | Angela Crawley Lanark and Hamilton East MP | 31.9% | 32.1% | 2.4% | 32.6% | 266 | 65.3%-3.8 |
| 2019notional | Scottish National Party winner | Angela Crawley Lanark and Hamilton East MP, pre-review boundary | 27.1% | 25.5% | 3.8% | 43.4% | 7,758 | 63.6% |
| 2024 | Lab gain from SNP | Imogen Walker | 49.9% | 10.9% | 3.6% | 27.4% | 9,472 | 55.8%-7.8 |
Hamilton and Clyde Valley was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat Lanark and Hamilton East (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 Hamilton and Clyde Valley
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Hamilton and Clyde Valley. Politics shown for context.
- ↓Leave36.8 / 36.6vs 53.2
- ↓Private rent10.2 / 9.3vs 20.2
- ↑Graduate40.3 / 42.0vs 33.7
- ↓Leave36.8 / 36.8vs 53.2
- ↓Private rent10.2 / 9.0vs 20.2
- ↑Graduate40.3 / 43.1vs 33.7
- ↓Leave36.8 / 39.5vs 53.2
- ↓Private rent10.2 / 9.8vs 20.2
- ↑Graduate40.3 / 40.2vs 33.7
- ↓Leave36.8 / 35.5vs 53.2
- ↓Private rent10.2 / 10.2vs 20.2
- ↑Graduate40.3 / 42.8vs 33.7
- ↓Leave36.8 / 34.8vs 53.2
- ↓Private rent10.2 / 11.8vs 20.2
- ↑Graduate40.3 / 43.0vs 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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