Greenock and Inverclyde was a

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represented in the

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of the

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from 1997 until 2005, when it was replaced by the

Inverclyde Inverclyde ( sco, Inerclyde, gd, Inbhir Chluaidh, , "mouth of the Clyde") is one of 32 council areas used for local government in Scotland. Together with the East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire council areas, Inverclyde forms part of the hist ...

constituency. It elected one

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(MP) using the

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voting system.

Boundaries

The Inverclyde District electoral divisions of Greenock Central East, Greenock South West, and Inverclyde West. The constituency included all of the council area of

except the wards covering Port Glasgow and

Kilmacolm Kilmacolm () is a village and civil parish in the Inverclyde council area, and the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on the northern slope of the Gryffe Valley, southeast of Greenock and aroun ...

, which were in the West Renfrewshire constituency. The unusual choice of name (since the town of Greenock is in Inverclyde) reflects the fact that the constituency was created from parts of two predecessor constituencies, Greenock and Port Glasgow and Renfrew West and Inverclyde.

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections of the 2000s

Elections of the 1990s

References

*{{Rayment-hc, g, 2, date=March 2012 Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 2005 Politics of Inverclyde Greenock Gourock