Clydesdale (Gaelic: Dail Chluaidh) is a county constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of South Lanarkshire.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 140. Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of ten constituencies in the South Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 28.
The seat has been held by Màiri McAllan of the Scottish National Party since the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.
Electoral region
Following the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries in 2025, the other nine constituencies of the South Scotland region are: Ayr; Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley; Dumfriesshire; East Kilbride; Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire; Galloway and West Dumfries; Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse; Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley; and Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale. The region covers the whole of the council areas of Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, and South Ayrshire council areas; and parts of the council areas of East Ayrshire, Midlothian, and South Lanarkshire.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 143. By population it is now the largest of Scotland's eight electoral regions.
Prior to the 2025 review, there were nine constituencies in the South Scotland region. Besides Clydesdale, the other eight constituencies were: Ayr; Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley; Dumfriesshire; East Lothian; Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire; Galloway and West Dumfries; Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley and Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale. The region covered the Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire, Scottish Borders and South Ayrshire council areas in full and elements of the East Lothian, Midlothian and South Lanarkshire council areas.
Constituency boundaries and council area
Clydesdale constituency is one of five covering the South Lanarkshire council area. Of the five, East Kilbride and Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse are also now within the South Scotland region. Rutherglen is within the Glasgow region; Uddingston and Bellshill is part of the Central Scotland and Lothians West region.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 140-143.
The Clydesdale constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Clydedale Parliament constituency of the UK Parliament. For the 2005 United Kingdom general election Scottish House of Commons constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland The seat remained unchanged following the Second Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries undertaken by Boundaries Scotland ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 54-67. The electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council used in the current creation of Clydesdale are:
Clydesdale West (entire ward) Clydesdale North (entire ward) Clydesdale East (entire ward) Clydesdale South (entire ward) Avondale and Stonehouse (shared with Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) East Kilbride South (shared with East Kilbride)
Member of the Scottish Parliament Election Member Party 1999 Karen Gillon Labour 2011 Aileen CampbellSNP 2021Màiri McAllan
Election results
2020s
2010s
2000s
1990s
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See also Clydesdale (UK Parliament constituency)
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