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Ochil and South Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Ochil and South Perthshire County constituency |
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| Ochil and South Perthshire shown within Scotland | |
| Created: | 2005 |
| MP: | Gordon Banks |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Council areas: | Clackmannanshire/Perth and Kinross |
| EP constituency: | Scotland |
Ochil and South Perthshire is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created as a result of the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland[1] and first used in the 2005 general election. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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| Council areas grouped by the Fifth Review |
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| Clackmannanshire and Perth and Kinross |
The constituency was created to cover the Clackmannanshire council area and a southern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area. Perth and North Perthshire was created, at the same time, to cover the rest of the Perth and Kinross council area.
Prior to the 2005 election, the council areas had been covered by the Angus, Ochil, Perth and North Tayside constituencies. The Perth constituency was entirely within the Perth and Kinross council area, the North Tayside constituency covered a northern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area and a northern portion of the Angus council area, the Angus constituency covered a small southeastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area, a southern portion of the Angus council area, and northern portions of the Dundee City council area, and the Ochil constituency covered another southeastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area, the whole of the Clackmannanshire council area and a southeastern portion of the Stirling council area.
- Gordon Banks, Labour (2005–present)
| General Election 2005: Ochil and South Perthshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Gordon Banks | 14,645 | 31.4 | −2.0 | |
| Scottish National | Annabelle Ewing | 13,957 | 29.9 | −1.7 | |
| Conservative | Elizabeth Smith | 10,021 | 21.5 | −0.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Catherine Whittingham | 6,218 | 13.3 | +2.8 | |
| Scottish Green | George Baxter | 978 | 2.1 | N/A | |
| Scottish Socialist | Iain Campbell | 420 | 0.9 | −0.9 | |
| UK Independence | David Bushby | 275 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Free Scotland Party | Maitland Kelly | 183 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 688 | 1.5 | |||
| Turnout | 46,697 | 66.0 | +3.6 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | −0.2 | |||
| General Election 2001: Ochil | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Martin O’Neill | 16,004 | 45.3 | +0.3 | |
| Scottish National | Keith Brown | 10,655 | 30.2 | −4.2 | |
| Conservative | Alasdair Campbell | 4,235 | 12.0 | −2.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Paul Edie | 3,253 | 9.2 | +4.0 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Pauline Thomson | 751 | 2.1 | N/A | |
| Monster Raving Loony | Flash Gordon Approaching | 405 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 5,349 | 15.1 | |||
| Turnout | 35,303 | 61.3 | −16.1 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
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