Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire | |
Parliament: | uk |
Year: | 1918 |
Abolished: | 1983 |
Type: | County |
Elects Howmany: | One |
Next: | Clackmannan, Falkirk East and Falkirk West[1] |
Region: | Scotland |
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire was a parliamentary constituency in the Clackmannan area of Central Scotland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was replaced by the new Clackmannan constituency.
The constituency comprised two separate parts, north and south of Falkirk town centre, with part of the similarly split Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth constituency in between.
Following the Representation of the People Act 1948, the seat of Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire was described in 1950 as being composed of:
This would continue until the seat's abolition in 1983.