Strathkelvin and Bearsden is a county constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of East Dunbartonshire.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 142. 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 West 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 29.
The seat has been held by Adam Harley of the Scottish Liberal Democrats since the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.
Electoral region
The other nine constituencies of the West Scotland region are: Clydebank and Milngavie, Cunninghame North, Cunninghame South, Dumbarton, Eastwood, Inverclyde, Paisley, Renfrewshire North and Cardonald, and Renfrewshire West and Levern Valley. The region covers the whole of the council areas of East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, and West Dunbartonshire; and parts of the council areas of Argyll and Bute, East Ayrshire, and Glasgow.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 143.
Constituency boundaries and council area
The Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, for the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, with the name and boundaries of the existing Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency of the UK House of Commons. Ahead of the 2005 United Kingdom general election the House of Commons constituencies in Scotland were altered, whilst the existing Scottish Parliament constituencies were retained, and there is now no longer any link between the two sets of boundaries.See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland The boundaries of the seat were altered slightly by the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries in 2011, but were left unchanged at the Second Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries in 2025.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 54-67.
The rest of East Dunbartonshire is represented by the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 140-142.
The electoral wards of East Dunbartonshire Council used in the current creation of Strathkelvin and Bearsden are:
Bearsden South Bishopbriggs North and Campsie Bishopbriggs South Kirkintilloch East and North and Twechar Lenzie and Kirkintilloch South
Member of the Scottish Parliament Election Member Party 1999 Sam GalbraithLabour 2001Brian Fitzpatrick 2003 Jean Turner Independent 2007 David WhittonLabour 2011 Fiona McLeodSNP 2016 Rona Mackay2026Adam HarleyLiberal Democrats
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