Falkirk (UK Parliament constituency)

Falkirk
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Falkirk in .
Subdivisions of Scotland	Falkirk
Major settlements	Falkirk
Current constituency
Created	2005
Member of parliament	John McNally (SNP)
Created from	Falkirk West and Falkirk East
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Scotland

Falkirk is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election, replacing Falkirk West and part of Falkirk East. In 2015 it became the safest seat for the SNP and the safest seat in Scotland.

The constituency takes in the town of the same name and stretches west to include Denny, Stenhousemuir and Banknock.

Falkirk has been joined by the various sized towns and villages of its council area in this new seat, including Bonnybridge, Polmont and Larbert. A south eastern arm of the seat curls around Grangemouth. The seat sits to the south of the River Forth.

The Labour party leadership was embroiled in a row with the Unite the Union over the selection of a candidate to replace disgraced ex-Labour MP Eric Joyce. In 2013, local officials of Unite, led by Len McCluskey, were accused of abusing membership procedures by 'bulk-buying' and 'packing' the Falkirk Constituency Labour Party with its own members in an attempt to get its favoured candidate, Karie Murphy (Labour election chief Tom Watson's office manager), selected. Unite was alleged to have signed up and paid the subscriptions for over 100 new party members in Falkirk, some of them allegedly unaware they were joining the Labour Party.

A leaked Unite document from December 2012 detailed its activity in Falkirk as "exemplary" for the way in which "we have recruited well over 100 Unite members to the party in a constituency with less than 200 members. 57 came from responses to a text message alone, (followed up face to face). A collective effort locally, but led and inspired by the potential candidate".