Sentences with phrase «paisley south»

The other eight constituencies of the West of Scotland region are Dumbarton, Clydebank and Milngavie, Cunninghame North, Eastwood, Paisley North, Greenock and Inverclyde, Paisley South and Strathkelvin and Bearsden.

The rest of the Renfrewshire area is covered by the Paisley North, Paisley South and Glasgow Govan constituencies.

This seat is held by Labour stalwart Hugh Henry, who represented the previous Paisley South Constituency.

Alexander, who grew up in Renfrewshire, was chosen to contest the by - election and he was duly elected to serve as the Member of Parliament for Paisley South on 6 November 1997.

At the 2005 general election, the Paisley South constituency was abolished and Alexander was elected to represent its successor seat of Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1997 to 2015, representing the Scottish constituencies of Paisley South (1997 — 2005) and Paisley and Renfrewshire South (2005 — 15).

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The «baby of the house», 20 - year - old SNP MP Mhairi Black, is the best known of the brood after ousting Labour heavyweight Douglas Alexander from his seat in Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

Three of them are Labour held seats that Ashcroft previously polled in January or February this year — East Renrewshire, Glasgow South West and Paisley & Renfrew South.

Articulate and personable, he humiliatingly lost his Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat to a 20 - year - old student, Mhairi Black of the Scottish National Party, who has since become something of a social media star.

Youngest MP Mhairi Black, of the SNP, will find out if she's held back Paisley & Renfrewshire South from Labour again.

The shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, who represents Paisley and Renfrewshire South, told an audience at Glasgow University on Saturday that the time had arrived to make clear to the Scottish people that real change would follow a no vote.

Shocks of the night included Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexanderlosing his Paisley and South Renfrewshire seat to 20 - year - old SNP candidate Mhairi Black.

«If it works between Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley... if it worked in South Africa...»

He was the victim of a massive 26.9 % swing from Labour to the SNP in the Paisley and Renfrewshire South constituency.

The two constituencies covering Renfrewshire in the Westminster Parliament are Paisley and Renfrewshire North and Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

Mhairi Black, who becomes the UK's youngest MP at the age of 20, overturned former shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander's majority of 16,600 in Paisley and Renfrewshire South to win by 5,684 votes - a swing of 27 % from Labour to the SNP.

In Paisley and Renfrewshire South a 20 - year - old student, Mhairi Black, became Britain's youngest member of Parliament since 1667 having defeated Labour's Douglas Alexander with a 26.9 % swing.

The youngest MP in the house, just 20 in 2015 when she defeated the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, to take Paisley Renfrewshire South for the SNP, Black confirmed on Twitter that she would defend her seat — a month after declaring that she hated Westminster and found it depressing.

Douglas Alexander, Labour's campaign manager and the Shadow Foreign Secretary, would lose his Paisley & Renfrewshire South seat with a swing to the SNP of 25 %.

The election of 20 - year - old Mhairi Black is one of the stories of the night, taking an early scalp in the form of Douglas Alexander, the Shadow Foreign Secretary in Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

Today, the MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South paised her predecessor for how he had handled himself on election night.

Many senior party figures were unseated, including Murphy himself (East Renfrewshire), Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South) and Shadow Scotland Secretary Margaret Curran (Glasgow East).

The biggest news was the demise of Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy in Renfrewshire East and Labour's campaign strategist Douglas Alexander in Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

Also prominent among the new crop of female MPs is 20 - year - old Mhairi Black, a SNP Glasgow University student who won Paisley and Renfrewshire South from the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander and becomes the youngest MP since 1667.

Paisley & Renfrewshire South and Glasgow Central were also easier Labour targets than many other constituencies that Labour won or lost by 2 or 3 figure majorities.

Mhairi Black, who was 20 when she won the seat of Paisley and Renfrewshire South for the SNP from Labour's Douglas Alexander in 2015, says she finds parliament «depressing» and «defunct».

Renfrewshire is represented in the Scottish Parliament by three constituencies: Paisley, Renfrewshire North and West and Renfrewshire South.

As the rest of the country bundles up in earth - toned scarfs and coats I'm sitting pretty in south Florida in a blue paisley print maxi skirt.