Riding profile

Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West

UK constituency — Scotland · Mixed · scotland

The question

Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West: will Labour lose this seat to SNP?

Current forecast

SNP

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
14.0
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • SNP 34.8%
  • Reform UK 20.8%
  • Labour 19.8%
  • Conservative 8.4%
  • Green 6.0%
  • Other 5.9%
  • Lib Dems 4.1%

Watch list

The tightest races

Smallest projected margin. Open one for the numbers.

  1. Birmingham ErdingtonReform UK60 %0.5 pt margin
  2. Derby NorthLabour62 %0.5 pt margin
  3. Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastReform UK62 %0.5 pt margin

In context

How this riding stacks up

SNP Reform UK Labour Conservative
HereInverclyde and Renfrewshire West 34.8%20.8%19.8%8.4%
National averageUnited Kingdom 2.8% +32.0 25.4% −4.6 21.8% −2.0 19.3% −10.9

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

Editorial read

Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West, a mixed constituency in Scotland, elected a member with Labour in the previous cycle, with a 16-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the SNP ahead at 35% vote share, against 21% for Reform UK, and the probability of a close race is negligible.

Sitting member

Martin McCluskey

Sits with Labour

Since
2024-07-04
Parliament
59th

Previous election · 2024

Won by
Labour
Margin
15.8 pts
Margin shift vs current projection
-1.8 pts

Detailed result · UK 2024

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Martin McCluskey Elected Labour 18,931 46.9
Ronnie Cowan SNP 12,560 31.1
Ted Runciman Conservative 2,863 7.1
Simon Moorehead Reform UK 2,476 6.1
Ross Stalker Lib Dems 1,259 3.1
Iain Hamilton Green 1,173 2.9
Christopher McEleny Other 723 1.8
John Burleigh Other 365 0.9

Demographics

Who lives here

Employment rate
70.1%

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

Last model run
Cycle
uk_2029