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Located in the West-Central Lowlands of Scotland, the constituency lies to the south of the town of Paisley and covers portions of the Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire council areas. It includes a number of small towns and villages that developed during the Industrial Revolution , when the chief industry was thread and cotton manufacture in ...
The constituency's first MP was Douglas Alexander, who had held the seat since its creation in 2005 and its predecessor Paisley South since 1997. Alexander was the Shadow Foreign Secretary, and has previously held Cabinet posts such as Transport Secretary and Scottish Secretary (2006–07; joint), and International Development Secretary (2007–10).
For the purposes of the review the Boundary Commission for Scotland must take into account the boundaries of the local government council areas.In order to do this some council areas were grouped together, the largest of these groupings of provisional proposals consisted of four of Scotland's 32 council areas the smallest only containing one.
Ochil & South Perthshire CC: Scotland: 2005 Current Orkney & Shetland CC: Orkney: 1708 Current Paisley BC: Renfrewshire: 1832 1983 Paisley & Renfrewshire North CC: Scotland: 2005 Current Paisley & Renfrewshire South CC: Scotland: 2005 Current Paisley North BC: Strathclyde: 1983 2005 Paisley South BC: Strathclyde: 1983 2005 Peebles & Southern ...
Of the 129 MSPs elected to the Scottish Parliament, 73 are elected to represent first past the post constituencies, whilst the remaining 56 are elected by the additional member system.
Renfrewshire or the County of Renfrew is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.The lieutenancy area covers the three modern council areas of Inverclyde, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire, and this area is occasionally termed Greater Renfrewshire to distinguish it from the modern council area called Renfrewshire.
Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Renfrew elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates. The number of commissioners was increased from two to three in 1690.
R. Ranfurly Castle; Renfrew (Parliament of Scotland constituency) Renfrew Castle; Renfrewshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency) ROF Bishopton; George Ross, 11th Lord Ross