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Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse

Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse is a burgh constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of South Lanarkshire. 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. The seat was first formed ahead of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

Electoral region
Following the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries in 2025, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse was moved from the Central Scotland electoral region into the South Scotland Region. The other nine constituencies of this region are: Ayr; Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley; Clydesdale; Dumfriesshire; Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire; Galloway and West Dumfries; East Kilbride; 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; and parts of the council areas of East Ayrshire, Midlothian, and South Lanarkshire. By population it is now the largest of Scotland's eight electoral regions. Prior to the 2025 review, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse formed part of the Central Scotland region; the review saw this replaced by a region entitled Central Scotland and Lothians West. The other eight constituencies of the Central Scotland region were: Airdrie and Shotts, Coatbridge and Chryston, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Falkirk East, Falkirk West, East Kilbride, Motherwell and Wishaw and Uddingston and Bellshill. The region covered all of the Falkirk council area, all of the North Lanarkshire council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council area. == Constituency boundaries and council areas ==
Constituency boundaries and council areas
Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse is one of five covering the South Lanarkshire council area. Of the five, Clydesdale, and East Kilbride 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. The constituency was created for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election from parts of the former constituencies of Hamilton South and Hamilton North and Bellshill, along with some areas that were formerly in the Clydesdale constituency. Its boundaries remained unchanged following the Second Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries undertaken by Boundaries Scotland ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. The Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse constituency consists of the following electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council: • Hamilton West and Earnock (entire ward) • Hamilton South (entire ward) • Larkhall (entire ward) • Avondale and Stonehouse (shared with Clydesdale) • Hamilton North and East (shared with Uddingston and Bellshill) == Member of the Scottish Parliament ==
Election results
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