The placeConstituency · Scotland · Electorate 70,350 · 2023 boundaries

Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch.

Labour Party MP Katrina Murray holds the seat on 45.2% of the vote — a split-council geography across 2 councils.

Member of ParliamentKatrina Murray · Labour Party
CouncilsNorth Lanarkshire · East Dunbartonshire
Boundary set2023
ONS codeS14000072
Electorate · 2024
70.3k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
45.2%
Labour Party · +10.1pp over SNP
Settlements
0
Named built-up areas
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
2 Jun 2026

Three rebel votes on the assisted dying bill in a single day mark Murray out as one of the more engaged backbenchers on that legislation. In June 2025 she voted three times against her party's majority position -- backing amendments to close a loophole whereby voluntary self-starvation could be used to meet the bill's terminal illness criteria, and supporting a procedural motion to allow a further clause to be considered. She also made headlines in April 2025 for publicly warning that government welfare cuts would push people into "deeper poverty" and launching a constituency consultation on disability benefit changes -- stopping short of committing to vote against the cuts, but publicly breaking from party leadership. Earlier, she disclosed a personal experience of an abusive relationship during a Commons debate on violence against women and girls.

Murray has spoken in 143 contributions across 102 debates, a 78% voting participation rate that sits slightly below the Commons average. She votes with Labour 96.5% of the time -- a reliable party-liner outside the specific rebel votes noted above. Her speeches cluster around the economy and jobs, local government, health, and social care. On the stance data, she sits notably above her party average on end-of-life autonomy and assisted dying safeguards, and well below it on NHS funding votes -- a gap of 41 percentage points against the party average that is the sharpest deviation in her profile.

Murray sits on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee and the Procedure Committee, the latter relevant given her rebel vote on a procedural motion regarding the sitting-in-private rule. Her UNISON background informs her focus on workers' rights, where she aligns 90% of the time. She has also signed onto calls for abortion decriminalisation in Scotland, a devolved matter. News sentiment data for the most recent 90-day period is insufficient to draw conclusions.

45.2%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
2
Councils overlapping the seat
7
Wards · 24 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.7 wards · 24 councillors · 2 councils

Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line. Each ward links to the council that runs it.

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Cumbernauld East(4 seats)Smith · McCulloch · Barclay · Johnston4,156North Lanarkshire LabMay 2022
Cumbernauld North(4 seats)Masterton · Ashraf · Currie · Fisher5,987North Lanarkshire LabMay 2022
Cumbernauld South(4 seats)Ballinger · McPhilemy · McDade · Goldie4,078North Lanarkshire LabMay 2022
Kilsyth(3 seats)Johnston · Brennan-McVey · Jones3,476North Lanarkshire LabMay 2022
Kirkintilloch East North Twechar(3 seats)Marshall · MacDonald · Murray4,673East Dunbartonshire IndMay 2022
Lenzie Kirkintilloch South(3 seats)McNally · Renwick · Paterson4,663East Dunbartonshire IndMay 2022
Stepps Chryston Muirhead(3 seats)Williams · McLaren · Cairns2,981North Lanarkshire LabMay 2022

Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ

Ethnicity.

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 48.4% Female 51.7% Median seat
MaleAgeFemale
85+
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
16-19
10-15
5-9
0-4

Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band

§ 04Local economy.Income · tax · businesses · schools
Median income
£27,900
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£33,300
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
1,960
VAT/PAYE-registered

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£213m
Taxpayers46,000
Median per taxpayer£2,810
Mean per taxpayer£4,660

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

This constituency is served by North Lanarkshire and East Dunbartonshire. Each council’s service spend, peer rank and supplier list lives on its own page — open from the meta block above or the compass strip below.

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§ 06Election history.1 contest · created on 2023 boundaries

2024 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Katrina MurrayWONLab18,51345.2
Stuart McDonaldSNP14,36935.1
Billy RossRef3,1677.7
Satbir GillCon1,9394.7
Anne McCrossanInd1,6944.1
Adam HarleyLD1,2943.2

Turnout 40,976

Prior contests.

Created on the 2023 boundary review. 2024 General Election was the first contest on these boundaries.

Sources, methods & last update
Method The dispatch paragraphs are AI-generated from the public sources listed below. Every figure links to its source. If we’re wrong, please tell us — corrections within 48 hours.
BoundariesONS Open Geography Portal
2023 boundary review
Wards & councilsLGBCE · Democracy Club
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
SettlementsONS Built-Up Areas
Census 2021
DemographicsONS · Nomis · Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
Income & taxHMRC SPI
±8% confidence
Crimedata.police.uk
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo
ElectionsElectoral Commission