Editing Renfrewshire (section)

==Wider politics==
===UK Parliament===
The two [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|parliamentary]] constituencies covering Renfrewshire are [[Paisley and Renfrewshire North]] and [[Paisley and Renfrewshire South]], being represented by [[Scottish Labour Party|Labour Party]] politicians [[Alison Taylor (politician)|Alison Taylor]] and [[Johanna Baxter]] of the respectively. Created in 2005, both seats had held by the Labour Party, until they were won by [[Gavin Newlands]] and [[Mhairi Black]] with swings of over 26% in the SNP landslide at the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]]. Both seats returned to Labour following the 2024 general election.

{{election table|title=UK general election results in Renfrewshire 2005–2024}}
|-
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party
! colspan="6"|Votes cast
! colspan="6"|%
! colspan="6"|Seats
|-
!2005
!2010
!2015
!2017
!2019
!2024
!2005
!2010
!2015
!2017
!2019
!2024
!2005
!2010
!2015
!2017
!2019
!2024
|-
| style="background:#dc241f;"|
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| '''38,601'''
| '''47,455'''
| 34,389
| 29,265
| 22,409
| '''39,144'''
| '''49.0'''
| '''56.7'''
| 35.6
| 33.1
| 24.2
| '''47.3'''
| '''2'''
| '''2'''
| 0
| 0
| 0
| '''2'''
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Scottish National Party}};"|
| style="text-align:left;" |[[Scottish National Party|Scottish National]]
| 14,349
| 15,621
| '''49,149'''
| '''34,419'''
| '''44,990'''
| 26,284
| 18.2
| 18.6
| '''50.8'''
| '''39.0'''
| '''48.5'''
| 31.7
| 0
| 0
| '''2'''
| '''2'''
| '''2'''
| 0
|-
| style="background:#0087dc;"|
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| 8,754
| 10,360
| 9,709
| 20,964
| 18,788
| 4,878
| 11.1
| 12.4
| 10.0
| 23.7
| 20.3
| 5.9
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
|-
| style="background:#fdbb30;"|
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Liberal Democrat (UK)|Liberal Democrat]]
| 14,136
| 8,409
| 2,065
| 2,803
| 6,579
| 2,689
| 18.0
| 10.0
| 2.1
| 3.2
| 7.1
| 3.2
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
|-
| style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
| style="text-align:left;" | Others
| 2,905
| 1,920
| 1,376
| 876
| N/A
| 9,807
| 3.7
| 2.3
| 1.4
| 1.0
| N/A
| 11.9
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| N/A
| 0
|-
! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |Margin
! 24,252
! 31,834
! 14,760
! 5,154
! 22,581
! 12,860
! 30.8
! 38.1
! 15.2
! 5.9
! 24.3
! 15.6
! 2
! 2
! 2
! 2
! 2
! 2
|-
! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Total
! 78,745
! 83,765
! 96,688
! 88,327
! 92,766
! 82,802
! 100%
! 100%
! 100%
! 100%
! 100%
! 100%
! 2
! 2
! 2
! 2
! 2
! 2
|}

===Scottish Parliament===
Following the establishment of the [[Scottish Parliament]] in 1999, the Labour Party held the three seats covering Renfrewshire, although with lower majorities than their House of Commons equivalents.

Constituency boundaries were redrawn for the [[2011 Scottish Parliament election]], with the new constituencies of [[Renfrewshire North and West (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Renfrewshire North and West]] and [[Paisley (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Paisley]] being gained by [[Derek Mackay]] and [[George Adam]], who became the first SNP parliamentarians in Renfrewshire. The remaining Labour seat, [[Renfrewshire South (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Renfrewshire South]], was gained by the SNP's [[Tom Arthur (Scottish politician)|Tom Arthur]] at the [[2016 Scottish Parliament election|2016 Scottish election]]. Arthur and Adam were re-elected in [[2021 Scottish Parliament election|2021]] winning over half the vote in their respective seats, while Mackay was replaced by Renfrewshire Councillor [[Natalie Don]].

Renfrewshire is also contained with the [[West Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)|West Scotland]] which elects seven additional members.

===Referendum results===
A majority of Renfrewshire rejected independence in the [[2014 Scottish independence referendum]], although with 55,466 (47.2%) votes cast in favour and 62,067 (52.8%) against, the ''Yes'' vote was higher than the national result. The turnout was 117,612 or 87.3%, the highest recorded in the democratic era.

With a turnout of 69.2% (88,197), Renfrewshire voted to remain in the [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|2016 European Union membership referendum]] with 64.8% (57,119) of votes cast in favour of remaining while 35.2% (31,010) were for leaving. This was the sixth highest vote for ''Remain'' out of Scotland's 32 councils.