Paisley and Renfrewshire South (UK Parliament constituency)

Paisley and Renfrewshire South
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Paisley and Renfrewshire South in Scotland.
Current constituency
Created	2005
Member of parliament	Mhairi Black (SNP)
Created from	Paisley South, Paisley North, and Renfrewshire West
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Scotland

Coordinates: 55°48′50″N 4°29′06″W / 55.814°N 4.485°W / 55.814; -4.485

Paisley and Renfrewshire South is a constituency of the British House of Commons, located in Renfrewshire, Scotland to the southwest of Glasgow. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years using the first-past-the-post system of voting.

The seat was formed in 2005, and was traditionally a safe seat for the Labour Party, who previously had a majority of over 16,000 until the SNP gained the seat in the 2015 General Election. Its first MP was Douglas Alexander, who had been the constituency's MP since 2005 (and for the predecessor seat of Paisley South since 1997). Alexander was the Shadow Foreign Secretary, and has previously held cabinet posts such as Transport Secretary and Scottish Secretary (2006-07; joint), and International Development Secretary (2007-10).