East Kilbride (Gaelic: Cille Bhrìghde an Ear) is a burgh constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of South Lanarkshire. Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of ten constituencies in the South Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
The seat has been held by Collette Stevenson of the Scottish National Party since the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.
Following the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries in 2025, East Kilbride was moved from the Central Scotland electoral region into the South Scotland Region. The other nine constituencies of this region are: Ayr; Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley; Clydesdale; Dumfriesshire; Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire; Galloway and West Dumfries; Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse; Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley; and Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale. The region covers the whole of the council areas of Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, and South Ayrshire; and parts of the council areas of East Ayrshire, Midlothian, and South Lanarkshire. By population it is now the largest of Scotland's eight electoral regions.
Prior to the 2025 review, East Kilbride formed part of the Central Scotland region; the review saw this replaced by a region entitled Central Scotland and Lothians West. The other eight constituencies of this region were: Airdrie and Shotts, Coatbridge and Chryston, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Falkirk East, Falkirk West, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, Motherwell and Wishaw and Uddingston and Bellshill. The region covered all of the Falkirk council area, all of the North Lanarkshire council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council area.
East Kilbride constituency is one of five covering the South Lanarkshire council area. Of the five, Clydesdale and Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse are also now within the South Scotland region. Rutherglen is within the Glasgow region; Uddingston and Bellshill is part of the Central Scotland and Lothians West region.
The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing UK House of Commons constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish House of Commons constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies. The seat remained unchanged following the Second Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries undertaken by Boundaries Scotland ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.
Covering the entirety of the large town of East Kilbride, the electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council used in the current creation of East Kilbride are:
BBC profile for 2016 election: