From historically Labour to solid SNP – what do we know about this seat?published at 22:57 British Summer Time
Phil Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent
Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse has been an SNP seat – indeed Christina McKelvie’s seat – since it was created in 2011.
Prior to that, all of the previous constituencies covering the area were held by Labour. Ms McKelvie defeated Tom McCabe, the former Labour MSP for Hamilton South, who had served as Jack McConnell’s finance minister.
In 2021 the SNP held the seat with a majority of 12.6% – down 6.2 percentage points from 2016, with a three-point swing from the SNP to Labour.
A double-digit majority means it…