Alloa & Grangemouth.

Alloa and Grangemouth is a central-Scotland seat of roughly 94,000 people, its two named towns sitting on either side of the boundary between the Clackmannanshire and Falkirk council areas. The median age, at 44, is a little older than the Scottish average, and the seat takes in the Forth-side industrial belt around Grangemouth alongside the smaller former mining and brewing town of Alloa. Local services are split across two authorities -- Clackmannanshire, which holds five of the eight wards, and Falkirk, which holds the remaining three. Both are Scottish council authorities, and a seat that straddles two of them is, in itself, a meaningful fact about how the place is governed.

At ward level the recent picture has been mixed rather than settled. Across the most recent round of council contests, fought in 2022, the SNP took the largest number of wards, with Labour the clear second force and the Conservatives, an Independent and a Green holding the remainder. Those results are now several years old, and the parliamentary picture has since moved: at the 2024 general election, the first fought on these boundaries, Labour won the seat with 43.8% to the SNP's 28.9%. The sitting MP, Brian Leishman of Labour, took the seat in that contest and has on occasion voted against his party's line in the Commons.

On the figures available the seat looks competitive rather than locked down: a clear Labour win in 2024, but over an SNP that remains the stronger party in the older ward returns. Recent coverage has carried an anxious, economically focused tenor, weighted heavily towards the area's industrial future and the livelihoods tied to it -- a register that sits squarely with the sitting member's emphasis on jobs and energy. The result is a constituency in visible flux: a Westminster majority newly won, a council map drawn before that shift, and a local conversation dominated less by party contest than by the question of what the area's economy becomes next.