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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org">West Renfrewshire</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight: bold;">Former <a href="/wiki/County_constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="County constituency">county constituency</a><br /><span class="category">for the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WestRenfrewshire1997Constituency.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Outline map" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/WestRenfrewshire1997Constituency.svg/260px-WestRenfrewshire1997Constituency.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="430" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/WestRenfrewshire1997Constituency.svg/390px-WestRenfrewshire1997Constituency.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/WestRenfrewshire1997Constituency.svg/520px-WestRenfrewshire1997Constituency.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="691" data-file-height="1144" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Boundary of West Renfrewshire in Scotland for the 2001 general election</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%"><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland" title="Subdivisions of Scotland">Subdivisions of Scotland</a></th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Renfrewshire" title="Renfrewshire">Renfrewshire</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf;"><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997</a>–<a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Seats</th><td class="infobox-data">One</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Replaced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Inverclyde_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency)">Inverclyde</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley & Renfrewshire North</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire South (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley & Renfrewshire South</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf;"><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">1885</a>–<a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Seats</th><td class="infobox-data">One</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Created from</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Renfrewshire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Replaced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Renfrew_West_and_Inverclyde_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Renfrew West and Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency)">Renfrew West & Inverclyde</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Paisley_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley North</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Paisley_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley South (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley South</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>West Renfrewshire</b> was a <a href="/wiki/County_constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="County constituency">county constituency</a> of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a> from 1885 to 1983 and again from 1997 until 2005. In 2005 the constituency was abolished and the area is now represented by <a href="/wiki/Inverclyde_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency)">Inverclyde</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley and Renfrewshire North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire South (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley and Renfrewshire South</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boundaries">Boundaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Boundaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Redistribution_of_Seats_Act_1885" title="Redistribution of Seats Act 1885">Redistribution of Seats Act 1885</a> provided that the Western division should consist of "the parishes of <a href="/wiki/Inverkip" title="Inverkip">Inverkip</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greenock" title="Greenock">Greenock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Port_Glasgow" title="Port Glasgow">Port Glasgow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kilmacolm" title="Kilmacolm">Kilmalcolm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erskine" title="Erskine">Erskine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inchinnan" title="Inchinnan">Inchinnan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Houston,_Renfrewshire" title="Houston, Renfrewshire">Houston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kilbarchan" title="Kilbarchan">Kilbarchan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lochwinnoch" title="Lochwinnoch">Lochwinnoch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Renfrew" title="Renfrew">Renfrew</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abbey,_Renfrewshire" title="Abbey, Renfrewshire">Abbey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neilston" title="Neilston">Neilston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beith" title="Beith">Beith</a>, and Dunlop".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The Lower county District, inclusive of all <a href="/wiki/Burgh" title="Burgh">burghs</a> situated therein, except the burgh of Greenock, together with the burgh of Johnstone." </p><p>From 1997 to 2005 the constituency consisted of the <a href="/wiki/Renfrew_(district)" title="Renfrew (district)">Renfrew District</a> electoral divisions of Bargarran and Gryffe, and the <a href="/wiki/Inverclyde_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Inverclyde District">Inverclyde District</a> electoral division of Port Glasgow and Kilmacolm. </p><p>In 1999 with the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Devolution" title="Devolution">devolved</a> <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a>, a Scottish Parliamentary constituency of <a href="/wiki/West_Renfrewshire_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Renfrewshire (Scottish Parliament constituency)">West Renfrewshire</a> was created with the same name and boundaries as the UK Parliament constituency. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abolition">Abolition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Abolition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Under the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1983 (<i><a href="/wiki/Statutory_Instrument_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Statutory Instrument (UK)">SI</a> 1983/422</i>), made under the authority of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_(Redistribution_of_Seats)_Act_1949" title="House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949">House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949</a>, West Renfrewshire was abolished in 1983. The area of the constituency was divided between <a href="/wiki/Renfrew_West_and_Inverclyde_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Renfrew West and Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency)">Renfrew West and Inverclyde</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paisley_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paisley_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley South (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley South</a>. </p><p>In 2005, the constituency was again abolished and remains so to the present day. The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 2005 (<i>SI 2005/250</i>) made under the authority of the <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Constituencies_Act_1986" title="Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986">Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986</a> divided the former West Renfrewshire constituency amongst the new <a href="/wiki/Inverclyde_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency)">Inverclyde</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley and Renfrewshire North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire South (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley and Renfrewshire South</a> constituencies. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members_of_Parliament">Members of Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Members of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="MPs_1885–1983"><span id="MPs_1885.E2.80.931983"></span>MPs 1885–1983</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: MPs 1885–1983"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Election </th> <th>Member<sup id="cite_ref-rayment-hc_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rayment-hc-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Party </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">1885</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Campbell,_1st_Baron_Blythswood" title="Archibald Campbell, 1st Baron Blythswood">Sir Archibald Campbell, Bt</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1892_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1892 United Kingdom general election">1892</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sir_Charles_Renshaw,_1st_Baronet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Charles Renshaw, 1st Baronet">Charles Renshaw</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1906_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1906 United Kingdom general election">1906</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Glen-Coats,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, 1st Baronet">Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, Bt</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="January 1910 United Kingdom general election">January 1910</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Greig_(British_politician)" title="James Greig (British politician)">James Greig</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">1922</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Murray_(Scottish_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Murray (Scottish politician)">Robert Murray</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">1924</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/McInnes_Shaw" title="McInnes Shaw">McInnes Shaw</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Forgan" title="Robert Forgan">Robert Forgan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">1931</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Scrymgeour-Wedderburn,_11th_Earl_of_Dundee" title="Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee">Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn</a>, later <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Dundee" title="Earl of Dundee">Earl of Dundee</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1945 United Kingdom general election">1945</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Scollan" title="Thomas Scollan">Thomas Scollan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #AFEEEE"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Maclay,_1st_Viscount_Muirshiel" title="John Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel">John Maclay</a> later <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Muirshiel" class="mw-redirect" title="Viscount Muirshiel">Viscount Muirshiel</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK,_1931)" title="National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)">National Liberal and Conservative</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">1964</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Norman_Buchan" title="Norman Buchan">Norman Buchan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><i>constituency abolished</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Constituency divided amongst: </p> <dl><dd><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Renfrew_West_and_Inverclyde_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Renfrew West and Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency)">Renfrew West and Inverclyde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley South (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley South</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="MPs_1997–2005"><span id="MPs_1997.E2.80.932005"></span>MPs 1997–2005</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: MPs 1997–2005"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Election </th> <th>Member<sup id="cite_ref-rayment-hc_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rayment-hc-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Party </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td>1997 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tommy_Graham_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tommy Graham (politician)">Tommy Graham</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> then <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td>2001 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jim_Sheridan_(politician)" title="Jim Sheridan (politician)">Jim Sheridan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><i>constituency abolished</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Constituency divided amongst: </p> <dl><dd><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Inverclyde_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency)">Inverclyde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley and Renfrewshire North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire South (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley and Renfrewshire South</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Election_results">Election results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Election results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1880s">Elections in the 1880s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1880s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">General election 1885</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Campbell,_1st_Baron_Blythswood" title="Archibald Campbell, 1st Baron Blythswood">Archibald Campbell</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,618 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Harry Smith </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,980 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.2 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">638 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,598 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">85.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7,750 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>win</b> (new seat) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1886 United Kingdom general election">General election 1886</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Campbell,_1st_Baron_Blythswood" title="Archibald Campbell, 1st Baron Blythswood">Archibald Campbell</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,434 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.4 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−0.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">William Dunn </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,881 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">553 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,315 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">81.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7,750 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1890s">Elections in the 1890s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1890s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1906_Robert_Wallace.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0d/1906_Robert_Wallace.jpg/120px-1906_Robert_Wallace.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0d/1906_Robert_Wallace.jpg/180px-1906_Robert_Wallace.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0d/1906_Robert_Wallace.jpg/240px-1906_Robert_Wallace.jpg 2x" data-file-width="285" data-file-height="362" /></a><figcaption>Wallace</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1892_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1892 United Kingdom general election">General election 1892</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Sir_Charles_Renshaw,_1st_Baronet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Charles Renshaw, 1st Baronet">Charles Renshaw</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,773 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−1.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Wallace_(MP_for_Perth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Wallace (MP for Perth)">Robert Wallace</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,322 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">451 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,095 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">86.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8,192 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−1.2 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1895_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1895 United Kingdom general election">General election 1895</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceC_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceC-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Sir_Charles_Renshaw,_1st_Baronet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Charles Renshaw, 1st Baronet">Charles Renshaw</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,909 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+1.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Duncan_Pirie" title="Duncan Pirie">Duncan Pirie</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,306 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">603 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,215 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">86.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8,386 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+1.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1900s">Elections in the 1900s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1900s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1900_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1900 United Kingdom general election">General election 1900</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceC_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceC-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Sir_Charles_Renshaw,_1st_Baronet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Charles Renshaw, 1st Baronet">Charles Renshaw</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,323 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.6 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−2.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Glen-Coats,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, 1st Baronet">Thomas Glen-Coats</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,053 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">270 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,376 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">9,861 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−2.6 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1906_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1906 United Kingdom general election">General election 1906</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 12,079 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Glen-Coats,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, 1st Baronet">Thomas Glen-Coats</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>5,858 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.6 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+8.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Charles Cunninghame </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,490 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,368 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,348 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">85.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">12,079 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+8.2 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1910s">Elections in the 1910s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1910s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="January 1910 United Kingdom general election">General election January 1910</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Greig_(British_politician)" title="James Greig (British politician)">James Greig</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>6,480 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−3.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Charles Cuninghame </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,631 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">849 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,111 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">87.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">13,900 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−3.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/December_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="December 1910 United Kingdom general election">General election December 1910</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Greig_(British_politician)" title="James Greig (British politician)">James Greig</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>6,366 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−2.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Henry Mechan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,082 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">284 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,448 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">86.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14,363 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−2.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>General Election 1914–15</b>: </p><p>Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; </p> <ul><li><b>Liberal</b>: <a href="/wiki/James_Greig_(British_politician)" title="James Greig (British politician)">James Greig</a></li> <li><b>Unionist</b>: Henry Mechan<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1916_Sir_James_William_Greig.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a7/1916_Sir_James_William_Greig.jpg/120px-1916_Sir_James_William_Greig.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a7/1916_Sir_James_William_Greig.jpg/180px-1916_Sir_James_William_Greig.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a7/1916_Sir_James_William_Greig.jpg/240px-1916_Sir_James_William_Greig.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1197" data-file-height="1690" /></a><figcaption>James Greig</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">General election 1918</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px"><b><a href="/wiki/Coalition_Coupon" title="Coalition Coupon"><span style="color:black">C</span></a></b> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Greig_(British_politician)" title="James Greig (British politician)">James Greig</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>11,524</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>61.8</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>+10.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Murray_(Scottish_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Murray (Scottish politician)">Robert Murray</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,126 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,398 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+21.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,650 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">65.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−21.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">28,542 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6"><b>C</b> <small>indicates <a href="/wiki/Coalition_Coupon" title="Coalition Coupon">candidate endorsed by the coalition government</a>.</small> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1920s">Elections in the 1920s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1920s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">General election 1922</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Robert_Murray_(Scottish_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Murray (Scottish politician)">Robert Murray</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>11,787 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+15.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFF890; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK,_1922)" title="National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)">National Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/James_William_Greig" class="mw-redirect" title="James William Greig">James Greig</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,051 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−15.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,736 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21,838 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">75.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">28,868 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+15.8 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1923_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1923 United Kingdom general election">General election 1923</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Robert_Murray_(Scottish_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Murray (Scottish politician)">Robert Murray</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>10,904 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−5.9 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #5555FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn">Alexander Thomson Taylor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,602 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/James_Scott_(Liberal_politician)" title="James Scott (Liberal politician)">James Scott</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,149 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−27.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,302 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,655 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">77.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">29,426 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+10.9 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">General election 1924</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/McInnes_Shaw" title="McInnes Shaw">McInnes Shaw</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>13,267 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+20.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Murray_(Scottish_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Murray (Scottish politician)">Robert Murray</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,252 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,015 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24,519 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">29,029 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+9.2 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">General election 1929</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Robert_Forgan" title="Robert Forgan">Robert Forgan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>14,419 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+0.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #5555FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn">Alexander Thomson Taylor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,183 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−14.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Sheed_Anderson" title="Francis Sheed Anderson">Francis Anderson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,682 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFFF66; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Scotland" title="National Party of Scotland">National (Scotland)</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Roland_Muirhead" title="Roland Muirhead">Roland Muirhead</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,667 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,236 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30,951 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">81.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">37,947 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+7.7 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1930s">Elections in the 1930s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1930s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">General election 1931</a>: West Renfrewshire<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1918_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1918-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Henry_Scrymgeour-Wedderburn,_11th_Earl_of_Dundee" title="Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee">Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>17,318 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+14.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #B22222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Labour Party (UK)">Ind. Labour Party</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Jean_Mann" title="Jean Mann">Jean Mann</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,203 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFFF66; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Scotland" title="National Party of Scotland">National (Scotland)</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Roland_Muirhead" title="Roland Muirhead">Roland Muirhead</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,547 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: black; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Party_(UK)" title="New Party (UK)">New Party</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Forgan" title="Robert Forgan">Robert Forgan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,304 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,115 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+14.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32,372 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">83.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.6 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1935 United Kingdom general election">General election 1935</a>: West Renfrewshire <sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Henry_Scrymgeour-Wedderburn,_11th_Earl_of_Dundee" title="Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee">Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>15,906 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−3.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Jean_Mann" title="Jean Mann">Jean Mann</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,407 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Roland_Muirhead" title="Roland Muirhead">Roland Muirhead</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,697 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,499 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32,010 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">81.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1940s">Elections in the 1940s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1940s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>General Election 1939–40</b> </p><p>Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; </p> <ul><li><b>Unionist</b>: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Scrymgeour-Wedderburn,_11th_Earl_of_Dundee" title="Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee">Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn</a></li> <li><b>Labour</b>: <a href="/wiki/David_Cleghorn_Thomson" title="David Cleghorn Thomson">David Cleghorn Thomson</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>SNP</b>:</li></ul> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1945 United Kingdom general election">General election 1945</a>: West Renfrewshire </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Scollan" title="Thomas Scollan">Thomas Scollan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>15,050 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.9 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+10.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #5555FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Scrymgeour-Wedderburn,_11th_Earl_of_Dundee" title="Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee">Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,836 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Robert Blair Wilkie </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,955 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,214 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30,841 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">70.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+7.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1950s">Elections in the 1950s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1950s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">General election 1950</a>: West Renfrewshire </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#AFEEEE; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_and_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="National Liberal and Conservative">National Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Maclay,_1st_Viscount_Muirshiel" title="John Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel">John Maclay</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>20,810 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.03 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Scollan" title="Thomas Scollan">Thomas Scollan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,708 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.97 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,102 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.06 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38,518 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">77.42 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #AFEEEE"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_and_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="National Liberal and Conservative">National Liberal</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">General election 1951</a>: West Renfrewshire </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#AFEEEE; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_and_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="National Liberal and Conservative">National Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Maclay,_1st_Viscount_Muirshiel" title="John Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel">John Maclay</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>21,456 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.71 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Millan" title="Bruce Millan">Bruce Millan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,493 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.29 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,963 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.42 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39,949 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.66 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #AFEEEE"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_and_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="National Liberal and Conservative">National Liberal</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">General election 1955</a>: West Renfrewshire </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#AFEEEE; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_and_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="National Liberal and Conservative">National Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Maclay,_1st_Viscount_Muirshiel" title="John Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel">John Maclay</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>21,283 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>55.24 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-op</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Dickson_Mabon" title="Dickson Mabon">Dickson Mabon</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,243 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.76 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,040 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.48 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38,526 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">83.02 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #AFEEEE"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_and_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="National Liberal and Conservative">National Liberal</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1959 United Kingdom general election">General election 1959</a>: West Renfrewshire </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#AFEEEE; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_and_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="National Liberal and Conservative">National Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Maclay,_1st_Viscount_Muirshiel" title="John Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel">John Maclay</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>20,959 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.51 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Charles Minihan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,206 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.49 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,753 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.02 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39,165 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">82.64 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #AFEEEE"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_and_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="National Liberal and Conservative">National Liberal</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1960s">Elections in the 1960s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1960s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">General election 1964</a>: West Renfrewshire </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Norman_Buchan" title="Norman Buchan">Norman Buchan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>19,518 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.17 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #5555FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn">Roy Pickering Paton </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,507 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.77 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gavin E McFadyean </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,253 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.06 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,011 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.40 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42,278 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">82.87 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/National_Liberal_and_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="National Liberal and Conservative">National Liberal</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">General election 1966</a>: West Renfrewshire </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Norman_Buchan" title="Norman Buchan">Norman Buchan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>23,849 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.31 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Roy Pickering Paton </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,060 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.69 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,789 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.62 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43,909 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">81.62 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1970s">Elections in the 1970s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1970s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">General election 1970</a>: West Renfrewshire </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Norman_Buchan" title="Norman Buchan">Norman Buchan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>22,999 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.02 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Fletcher_(British_politician)" title="Alexander Fletcher (British politician)">Alexander Fletcher</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,699 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.22 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Allan_Macartney" title="Allan Macartney">Allan Macartney</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,195 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.76 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,300 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47,893 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.41 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">General election February 1974</a>: West Renfrewshire </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Norman_Buchan" title="Norman Buchan">Norman Buchan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>22,178 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>40.25 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">J. Ross-Harper </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,510 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.41 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Charles Cameron </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,394 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.23 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">David Young </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,022 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,668 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.84 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">55,104 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">82.92 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="October 1974 United Kingdom general election">General election October 1974</a>: West Renfrewshire </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Norman_Buchan" title="Norman Buchan">Norman Buchan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>20,674 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>38.49 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Charles Cameron </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,374 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.62 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">J. Ross-Harper </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,399 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26.80 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">D Brown </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,271 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.09 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,300 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.87 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53,718 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80.08 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">General election 1979</a>: West Renfrewshire </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Norman_Buchan" title="Norman Buchan">Norman Buchan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>28,236 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>44.47 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.98 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">W Boyle </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,664 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.97 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.17 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Charles Cameron </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,333 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.13 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−15.49 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Ross_Finnie" title="Ross Finnie">Ross Finnie</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,256 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.43 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.34 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,572 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.50 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.63 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">63,489 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">81.17 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.09 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1990s">Elections in the 1990s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">General election 1997</a>: West Renfrewshire<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus1997_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus1997-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Tommy_Graham_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tommy Graham (politician)">Tommy Graham</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>19,525 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.6 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+3.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Colin_Campbell_(Scottish_politician)" title="Colin Campbell (Scottish politician)">Colin Campbell</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,546 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Charles J.S. Cormack </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,387 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bruce J.S. Macpherson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,045 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #bf475c; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Referendum_Party" title="Referendum Party">Referendum</a> </td> <td class="fn">Shaw T. Lindsay </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">283 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,979 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39,786 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">76.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>win</b> (new seat) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2000s">Elections in the 2000s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2000s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">General election 2001</a>: West Renfrewshire<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus2001_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus2001-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jim_Sheridan_(politician)" title="Jim Sheridan (politician)">Jim Sheridan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>15,720 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.9 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+0.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Carol Puthucheary </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,145 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">David Sharpe </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,522 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Clare Hamblen </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,185 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #ff0000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Socialist_Party" title="Scottish Socialist Party">Scottish Socialist</a> </td> <td class="fn">Arlene Nunnery </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">925 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,575 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33,497 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">63.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−12.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1832_to_1868" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1832 to 1868">1832 to 1868</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1868_to_1885" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1868 to 1885">1868 to 1885</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1885_to_1918" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1885 to 1918">1885 to 1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1918_to_1950" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1918 to 1950">1918 to 1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1950_to_1955" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1950 to 1955">1950 to 1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1955_to_1974" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1955 to 1974">1955 to 1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1974_to_1983" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1974 to 1983">1974 to 1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1983_to_1997" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1983 to 1997">1983 to 1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1997_to_2005" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1997 to 2005">1997 to 2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_2005_to_2024" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 2005 to 2024">2005 to 2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0;background:#bfd7ff;padding:1px;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b>Current constituencies (2024)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeen_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Aberdeen North (UK Parliament constituency)">Aberdeen North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeen_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Aberdeen South (UK Parliament constituency)">Aberdeen South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeenshire_North_and_Moray_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Aberdeenshire North and Moray East (UK Parliament constituency)">Aberdeenshire North and Moray East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Airdrie_and_Shotts_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Airdrie and Shotts (UK Parliament constituency)">Airdrie & Shotts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alloa_and_Grangemouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Alloa and Grangemouth (UK Parliament constituency)">Alloa & Grangemouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angus_and_Perthshire_Glens_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Angus and Perthshire Glens (UK Parliament constituency)">Angus & Perthshire Glens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arbroath_and_Broughty_Ferry_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Arbroath and Broughty Ferry (UK Parliament constituency)">Arbroath & Broughty Ferry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argyll,_Bute_and_South_Lochaber_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)">Argyll, Bute & South Lochaber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayr,_Carrick_and_Cumnock_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock (UK Parliament constituency)">Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bathgate_and_Linlithgow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bathgate and Linlithgow (UK Parliament constituency)">Bathgate & Linlithgow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berwickshire,_Roxburgh_and_Selkirk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (UK Parliament constituency)">Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caithness,_Sutherland_and_Easter_Ross_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency)">Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Ayrshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Central Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Central Ayrshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_and_Bellshill_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Coatbridge and Bellshill (UK Parliament constituency)">Coatbridge & Bellshill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cowdenbeath_and_Kirkcaldy_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy (UK Parliament constituency)">Cowdenbeath & Kirkcaldy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumbernauld_and_Kirkintilloch_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch (UK Parliament constituency)">Cumbernauld & Kirkintilloch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dumfries_and_Galloway_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dumfries and Galloway (UK Parliament constituency)">Dumfries & Galloway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dumfriesshire,_Clydesdale_and_Tweeddale_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (UK Parliament constituency)">Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dundee_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dundee Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Dundee Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunfermline_and_Dollar_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dunfermline and Dollar (UK Parliament constituency)">Dunfermline & Dollar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Kilbride_and_Strathaven_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Kilbride and Strathaven (UK Parliament constituency)">East Kilbride & Strathaven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)">East Renfrewshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_East_and_Musselburgh_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh East & Musselburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_North_and_Leith_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh North and Leith (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh North & Leith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh South (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_South_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh South West (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh South West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh West (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falkirk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Falkirk (UK Parliament constituency)">Falkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow East (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow North (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_North_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow North East (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow North East</a></li> <li><a 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and Renfrewshire West (UK Parliament constituency)">Inverclyde & Renfrewshire West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverness,_Skye_and_West_Ross-shire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire (UK Parliament constituency)">Inverness, Skye & West Ross-shire </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilmarnock_and_Loudoun_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kilmarnock and Loudoun (UK Parliament constituency)">Kilmarnock & Loudoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livingston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Livingston (UK Parliament constituency)">Livingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lothian_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lothian East (UK Parliament constituency)">Lothian East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid_Dunbartonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mid Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Mid Dunbartonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midlothian_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Midlothian (UK Parliament constituency)">Midlothian</a></li> 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style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Scotland" title="Local government in Scotland">Local Government</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Renfrewshire#Renfrewshire_Council" title="Renfrewshire">Renfrewshire Council</a> (local authority)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wards_of_Renfrewshire" title="Wards of Renfrewshire">Council wards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renfrewshire_(historic)" title="Renfrewshire (historic)">County of Renfrew</a> (registration county)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Renfrewshire" title="Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire">Renfrewshire lieutenancy area</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Towns</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paisley,_Renfrewshire" title="Paisley, Renfrewshire">Paisley</a> (administrative centre)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renfrew" title="Renfrew">Renfrew</a> (traditional county town)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnstone" title="Johnstone">Johnstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erskine" title="Erskine">Erskine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linwood,_Renfrewshire" title="Linwood, Renfrewshire">Linwood</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Villages</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Areas_in_Paisley,_Renfrewshire" title="Category:Areas in Paisley, Renfrewshire">Areas of Paisley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishopton,_Renfrewshire" title="Bishopton, Renfrewshire">Bishopton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridge_of_Weir" title="Bridge of Weir">Bridge of Weir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookfield,_Renfrewshire" title="Brookfield, Renfrewshire">Brookfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crosslee" title="Crosslee">Crosslee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elderslie,_Scotland" title="Elderslie, Scotland">Elderslie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houston,_Renfrewshire" title="Houston, Renfrewshire">Houston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howwood" title="Howwood">Howwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inchinnan" title="Inchinnan">Inchinnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilbarchan" title="Kilbarchan">Kilbarchan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langbank" title="Langbank">Langbank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lochwinnoch" title="Lochwinnoch">Lochwinnoch</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other locations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Braehead" title="Braehead">Braehead</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Braehead_Arena" title="Braehead Arena">arena</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clyde_Muirshiel_Regional_Park" title="Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park">Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Airport" title="Glasgow Airport">Glasgow Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_Abbey" title="Paisley Abbey">Paisley Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mirren_Park" title="St Mirren Park">St Mirren Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_the_West_of_Scotland" title="University of the West of Scotland">University of the West of Scotland</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliamentary</a> constituencies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley and Renfrewshire North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire South (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley and Renfrewshire South</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliamentary</a> constituencies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Paisley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renfrewshire_North_and_West_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Renfrewshire North and West (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Renfrewshire North and West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renfrewshire_South_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Renfrewshire South (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Renfrewshire South</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renfrewshire_(historic)" title="Renfrewshire (historic)">Renfrewshire (historic)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strathclyde" title="Strathclyde">Strathclyde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strathgryffe" title="Strathgryffe">Strathgryffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Renfrewshire_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Renfrewshire (Scottish Parliament constituency)">West Renfrewshire (Scottish Parliament constituency)</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">West Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <dl><dt><span class="nobold">Neighbouring council areas</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/East_Renfrewshire" title="East Renfrewshire">East Renfrewshire</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Inverclyde" title="Inverclyde">Inverclyde</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/North_Ayrshire" title="North Ayrshire">North Ayrshire</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/West_Dunbartonshire" title="West Dunbartonshire">West Dunbartonshire</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&oldid=1250350523">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&oldid=1250350523</a>"</div></div> <div 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