Stirling and Strathallan
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About the Stirling and Strathallan constituency
Stirling and Strathallan is a county constituency in Scotland, covering most or all of Stirling. The sitting MP is Chris Kane (Labour), first elected in July 2024.
At the 2024 general election, Labour won Stirling and Strathallan with 33.9% of the vote, ahead of the SNP on 31.1%, a majority of 1,394 votes. Turnout was 65.3%.
If a general election were held today, PollCheck's projection at the current seven-poll average has the SNP on 36.6% and the Conservatives on 19.9% in Stirling and Strathallan, a margin of 16.7 points, a projected change from Labour since 2024. The projection updates automatically as new polls are added.
Demographically, Stirling and Strathallan is a Remain-leaning area (an estimated 35.9% voted Leave in 2016). About 51.8% of residents hold a degree, 67.2% of homes are owner-occupied, and the seat has a median age of about 44 (2021 Census).
Across the last 5 general elections on record, the seat has been won by Labour 2 times, the SNP 2 times, the Conservatives 1 time (earlier years may be on predecessor boundaries).
Who lives in Stirling and Strathallan? Constituency demographics
From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did Stirling and Strathallan 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 Stirling and Strathallan
Switch between ward-level 2024 election winners and a demographic view. Ward winners are Britain Elects' / New Statesman modelled estimates with an average ~4pp margin of error per ward. The demographic view splits the seat into small neighbourhoods (around 800 residents each, from Scotland's 2022 Census). Hover any area for detail.
How Stirling and Strathallan voted at the Scottish Parliament election (7 May 2026)
Stirling and Strathallan crosses multiple Holyrood boundaries: Stirling (85%), Perthshire South and Kinross-shire (10%), Clackmannanshire and Dunblane (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 | Share of Stirling and Strathallan | Winner | Runner-up | Elected MSP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stirling | 85% | SNP 42.4% | Conservative 19.2% | Alyn Smith |
| Perthshire South and Kinross-shire | 10% | SNP 40.4% | Conservative 26.5% | Jim Fairlie |
| Clackmannanshire and Dunblane | 4% | SNP 37.8% | Labour 24.6% | Keith Brown |
Holyrood 2026 constituency results from official declarations. Overlap percentages are area-based using the post-2024 Westminster boundary against the new Holyrood second-review boundary (in force from 7 May 2026).
Stirling and Strathallan within Stirling
The Westminster constituency of Stirling and Strathallan sits entirely within Stirling Council. Local council elections are a separate ballot from Westminster general elections - English councils rotate their election cycles and Stirling was not due to vote in 2026, so the figures below show the most recent council ward results available.
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat |
|---|---|
| Stirling | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Oct 2025 | Stirling East | SNP GAIN from Con | Con 36% LD 24% Ref 23% |
| 24 Jan 2025 | Bannockburn | SNP GAIN from Lab | — |
| 6 Dec 2024 | Stirling East | SNP GAIN from Lab | — |
| 27 Sep 2024 | Strathallan | LD GAIN from Con | — |
| 16 Aug 2024 | Dunblane and Bridge of Allan | Lab GAIN from Ind | — |
Most recent council ward results
Latest council winner per ward. Where the council held a May 2026 election, those results are shown; otherwise we show the most recent available ward result (via DCLEAPIL, 2014-2024), or, where the seat was uncontested at the last election, the current sitting councillor from OpenCouncilData. The "Shift since GE2024" column is only computed for May 2026 results - earlier council votes pre-date the GE, so no directional shift is shown.
| Ward | GE2024 winner | Latest council winner | Shift since GE2024 | Turnout |
|---|
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for Stirling and Strathallan at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won Stirling and Strathallan at past general elections?
2024 result is on current boundaries. The 2019 row is the UK Parliament's notional recalculation onto the 2024 boundaries (directly comparable to 2024). The 2010, 2015 and 2017 rows are on the boundaries in force at the time and aren't directly comparable.
| Year | Result | MP | Lab | Con | LD | Majority | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010predecessor | Lab hold | Anne McGuire Stirling MP | 41.8% | 24.0% | 14.5% | 8,304 | 70.9% |
| 2015predecessor | SNP gain from Lab | Steven Paterson Stirling MP | 25.5% | 23.1% | 2.7% | 10,480 | 77.5%+6.6 |
| 2017predecessor | Con gain from SNP | Stephen Kerr Stirling MP | 22.1% | 37.1% | 3.4% | 148 | 74.3%-3.2 |
| 2019notional | Scottish National Party winner | Alyn Smith Stirling MP, pre-review boundary | 7.7% | 35.0% | 5.8% | 8,556 | 75.1% |
| 2024 | Lab gain from SNP | Chris Kane | 33.9% | 19.0% | 5.1% | 1,394 | 65.3%-9.8 |
Stirling and Strathallan was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat Stirling (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 Stirling and Strathallan
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Stirling and Strathallan. Politics shown for context.
- ↑Graduate51.8 / 49.3vs 33.7
- ↓Leave35.9 / 39.7vs 53.2
- ↓Private rent12.7 / 13.8vs 20.2
- ↓Leave35.9 / 36.3vs 53.2
- ↑Graduate51.8 / 49.6vs 33.7
- ↑Owner-occupied67.2 / 67.2vs 61.9
- ↓Leave35.9 / 39.6vs 53.2
- ↑Graduate51.8 / 46.5vs 33.7
- ↓No quals12.8 / 10.7vs 18.0
- ↑Graduate51.8 / 46.9vs 33.7
- ↓Leave35.9 / 40.7vs 53.2
- ↓Private rent12.7 / 10.6vs 20.2
- ↓Leave35.9 / 35.5vs 53.2
- ↑Graduate51.8 / 45.3vs 33.7
- ↓Private rent12.7 / 10.4vs 20.2
What would change this seat?
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Related
Sources
- 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 swingometer applied to the rolling 7-poll average from aggregated GB polls. Not a true MRP - vote-share movements are applied through per-constituency sensitivity multipliers derived from demographic regressions.
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