Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch.
Labour Party MP Katrina Murray holds the seat on 45.2% of the vote — a split-council geography across 2 councils.
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.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line. Each ward links to the council that runs it.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cumbernauld East(4 seats) | Smith · McCulloch · Barclay · Johnston | 4,156 | North Lanarkshire Lab | May 2022 |
| Cumbernauld North(4 seats) | Masterton · Ashraf · Currie · Fisher | 5,987 | North Lanarkshire Lab | May 2022 |
| Cumbernauld South(4 seats) | Ballinger · McPhilemy · McDade · Goldie | 4,078 | North Lanarkshire Lab | May 2022 |
| Kilsyth(3 seats) | Johnston · Brennan-McVey · Jones | 3,476 | North Lanarkshire Lab | May 2022 |
| Kirkintilloch East North Twechar(3 seats) | Marshall · MacDonald · Murray | 4,673 | East Dunbartonshire Ind | May 2022 |
| Lenzie Kirkintilloch South(3 seats) | McNally · Renwick · Paterson | 4,663 | East Dunbartonshire Ind | May 2022 |
| Stepps Chryston Muirhead(3 seats) | Williams · McLaren · Cairns | 2,981 | North Lanarkshire Lab | May 2022 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Headline indicators.
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Ethnicity.
Source · Census 2021
Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band
Income tax contribution.
| Total income tax | £213m |
| Taxpayers | 46,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £2,810 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £4,660 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
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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2024 — full result.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katrina MurrayWON | Lab | 18,513 | 45.2 |
| Stuart McDonald | SNP | 14,369 | 35.1 |
| Billy Ross | Ref | 3,167 | 7.7 |
| Satbir Gill | Con | 1,939 | 4.7 |
| Anne McCrossan | Ind | 1,694 | 4.1 |
| Adam Harley | LD | 1,294 | 3.2 |
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
2023 boundary review
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
±8% confidence
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo