The placeConstituency · Scotland · 2010 boundaries

East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow.

Conservative and Unionist Party MP Lisa Cameron holds the seat.

Member of ParliamentLisa Cameron · Conservative and Unionist Party
Boundary set2010
ONS codeS14000019
Electorate · 2024
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
Settlements
0
Named built-up areas
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
1 Jun 2026

A decade in parliament, but Lisa Cameron's recent record is effectively a blank slate -- there are no votes, speeches, committee appearances, or notable news stories on file for the current period. This is partly explained by her unusual political journey: she was elected in 2015 as an SNP MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow, then defected to the Conservatives in late 2023, before losing her seat at the 2024 general election. The data here reflects a period in which she was no longer a sitting MP.

With zero recorded divisions and no speech activity to analyse, it is impossible to assess parliamentary engagement, party loyalty, or policy focus for this period. Her pre-defection record included work on mental health policy -- she served as chair of the Cross-Party Group on Psychology -- but whether those interests carried into her brief time as a Conservative MP cannot be determined from the available data.

The core context is structural: Cameron is a former MP, not a current one, which explains every gap in the dataset. Constituents searching for an active representative should note that East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow returned a different MP at the 2024 election. The constituency label in this briefing also contains an error -- it is a Scottish seat, not an English one. No meaningful conclusions about recent parliamentary behaviour can be drawn here; the absence of data reflects absence from the Commons, not simply a low profile.

§ 06Election history.4 contests · created on 2010 boundaries

2019 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Lisa CameronWONSNP26,11346.4
Monique McAdamsLab12,79122.7
Gail MacgregorCon11,96121.2
Ewan McRobertLD3,7606.7
Erica Bradley-YoungGrn1,1532.0
David MackayInd5591.0

Turnout 56,337

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2017Lisa CameronSNP38.9
2015Lisa CameronSNP55.6
2010McCann, MichaelLab51.5
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BoundariesONS Open Geography Portal
2010 boundary review
Wards & councilsLGBCE · Democracy Club
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
SettlementsONS Built-Up Areas
Census 2021
Crimedata.police.uk
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo
ElectionsElectoral Commission