Eastwood, Strathclyde

Coordinates: 55°48′25″N 4°17′42″W / 55.807°N 4.295°W / 55.807; -4.295

Eastwood
Eastwood district within Scotland
Population
• 1994	60,600
History
• Created	1975
• Abolished	1996
• Succeeded by	East Renfrewshire
Status	District
Government	Eastwood District Council
• HQ	Giffnock

Eastwood (Scottish Gaelic: A' Choille an Ear, Scots: Eastwid) was a local government district in the Strathclyde region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996,^[1] lying south-west of the City of Glasgow.

Local government[]

The district was named after the larger civil parish of Eastwood,^[2] itself named after a long-vanished woodland.^[3] The Local Government district was formed from the area of the First District of the former county of Renfrewshire. It was one of nineteen local government districts in the Strathclyde region. The council's headquarters were at Giffnock.

The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 abolished all of the districts and regions. The Eastwood District was merged with a few parts of the Renfrew District (the sector covering Barrhead) to form the East Renfrewshire unitary council area.

Electoral history[]

District result maps[]

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  1980 results map

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  1984 results map

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  1988 results map

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  1992 results map

Constituencies[]

The Eastwood Westminster constituency was created in 1983, and the Eastwood Holyrood constituency, with the same boundaries, in 1999.

The Westminster constituency was renamed East Renfrewshire in 2005. The Holyrood constituency retains its original name.

See also[]

• Subdivisions of Scotland

References[]

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