East Renfrewshire

Current MP

Blair McDougall

Labour

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)

Efficiency 8.4/102 years as MP

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Election history

Most-signed petitions in East Renfrewshire

Petitions ranked by how many people in this constituency signed them.

• Do not introduce Digital ID cards3,041 local · 2,984,191 total
• Call a General Election2,618 local · 3,084,713 total
• Invest in brain cancer and give rights – turn terminal into treatable1,230 local · 109,063 total
• Call an immediate general election732 local · 1,059,229 total
• Repeal the Online Safety Act699 local · 550,136 total
• Introduce offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants660 local · 720,772 total
• Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza611 local · 198,966 total
• Reduce the school week to four days a week540 local · 126,014 total
• Introduce a compensation scheme for WASPI women377 local · 161,788 total
• Stop financial and other support for asylum seekers354 local · 427,447 total
• Raise the income tax personal allowance from £12,570 to £20,000 340 local · 281,794 total
• Ban immediately the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures322 local · 257,938 total
• Call a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy257 local · 118,874 total
• Cancel the clinical trial into puberty blockers & safeguard vulnerable children256 local · 150,424 total
• Keep 5-year ILR terms to Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visas254 local · 114,605 total
• Limit the sale of fireworks to those running local council approved events only254 local · 195,930 total
• Shut the migrant hotels down now and deport illegal migrants housed there250 local · 257,442 total
• Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold247 local · 189,887 total
• Mandatory collection and publication of certain child sexual offender data240 local · 260,974 total
• Protect Northern Ireland Veterans from Prosecutions234 local · 209,956 total

About East Renfrewshire

East Renfrewshire is one of 650 UK parliamentary constituencies that each elect a single Member of Parliament to the House of Commons under the first-past-the-post system. It sits in Scotland and has a registered electorate of 74,626 voters. Boundary reviews run on a regular cycle via the Boundary Commission — the current map was redrawn for the 2024 general election.