Riding profile

Airdrie and Shotts

UK constituency — Scotland · Mixed · scotland

The question

Airdrie and Shotts: will Labour lose this seat to SNP?

Editorial read

Airdrie and Shotts, a mixed constituency in Scotland, elected a member with Labour in the previous cycle, with a 21-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the SNP ahead at 30% vote share, against 27% for Labour, and the probability of a close race is negligible.

Sitting member

Kenneth Stevenson

Sits with Labour

Since
2024-07-04
Parliament
59th

Current forecast

SNP

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
5.9
P(close race)
5%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • SNP 30.5%
  • Labour 26.9%
  • Reform UK 23.0%
  • Conservative 5.9%
  • Green 5.7%
  • Lib Dems 4.1%
  • Other 3.8%

In context

How this riding stacks up

SNP Labour Reform UK Conservative
HereAirdrie and Shotts 30.5%26.9%23.0%5.9%
National averageUnited Kingdom 2.5% +27.9 21.7% +5.2 25.3% −2.3 18.9% −13.0

Nationwide averages computed across the 650 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Previous election · UK 2024

Won by
Labour
Margin
20.6 pts
Margin shift vs current projection
-14.7 pts

Detailed result · UK 2024

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Kenneth Stevenson Elected Labour 18,871 51.5
Anum Qaisar SNP 11,324 30.9
David Hall Reform UK 2,971 8.1
Alexandra Herdman Conservative 1,696 4.6
Lewis Younie Lib Dems 725 2.0
Josh Robertson Other 623 1.7
John Leckie Other 456 1.2

Demographics

Who lives here

Employment rate
70.7%

Data source : ONS mid-2022 population + Jan 2026 labour market

Last model run
Cycle
uk_2029