North East Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)
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| Scottish Parliament electoral region | |
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| The North East Scotland region shown within Scotland |
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| Created 1999 |
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| Scottish National Party | 5 MSPs |
| Labour Party | 4 MSPs |
| Liberal Democrats | 3 MSPs |
| Conservative Party | 3 MSPs |
| Scottish Green Party | 1 MSP |
| Constituencies Aberdeen Central Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Angus Banff and Buchan Dundee East Dundee West Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine |
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| Council areas Aberdeen City Aberdeenshire Angus (part) Dundee City Moray (part) Perth and Kinross (part) |
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North East Scotland is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament which were created in 1999. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elects a total of 16 MSPs.
The North East Scotland region shares boundaries with the Mid Scotland and Fife and Highlands and Islands regions.
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[edit] Constituencies and local government areas
In terms of first past the post constituencies the region covers:
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The constituencies were created in 1999 with the names and boundaries of Westminster constituencies, as existing in at that time. Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies in 2005[1]
In terms of local government areas the region covers:
- Aberdeenshire
- Aberdeen City
- the City of Dundee
- part of Angus (otherwise within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region)
- a small part of Moray (otherwise within the Highlands and Islands electoral region)
- a small part of Perth and Kinross (otherwise within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region)
[edit] Election results
[edit] 2003 Scottish Parliament election
In the 2003 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:
- 5 Scottish National Party MSPs (four constituency members and one additional member)
- 4 Labour MSPs (two constituency members and two additional members)
- 3 Liberal Democrat MSPs (all constituency members)
- 3 Conservative MSPs (all additional members)
- 1 Green MSP (additional member)
[edit] Constituency results
[edit] Additional member results
| Scottish parliamentary election, 2003: North East Scotland | ||||||
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| Party | Votes | % | ±% | Number of seats won | Elected candidates | |
| Scottish National Party | 66,463 | 27.3% | -5.0% | 1 | Richard Lochhead | |
| Labour | 49,189 | 20.2% | -5.3% | 2 | Marlyn Glen, Richard Baker | |
| Liberal Democrats | 45,831 | 18.8% | +1.3% | 0 | ||
| Conservative | 42,318 | 17.4% | -0.9% | 3 | David Davidson, Nanette Milne, Alex Johnstone | |
| Scottish Green | 12,724 | 5.2% | +2.4% | 1 | Shiona Baird | |
| Scottish Socialist | 10,226 | 4.2% | +3.1% | 0 | ||
| Scottish Pensioners Party | 5,584 | 2.3% | N/A | 0 | ||
| Scottish Fishing Party | 5,566 | 2.3% | N/A | 0 | ||
| Socialist Labour | 2,431 | 1.0% | -0.2% | 0 | ||
| UK Independence | 1,498 | 0.6% | N/A | 0 | ||
| Scottish People's Alliance | 941 | 0.4% | N/A | 0 | ||
| Independent | 902 | 0.4% | N/A | 0 | ||
Changes:
- Maureen Watt replaced Richard Lochhead. Lochhead resigned as an MSP in April 2006 to contest the Moray by-election following the death of Margaret Ewing. Watt was the next available candidate on the Scottish National Party list.
[edit] 1999 Scottish Parliament election
In the 1999 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:
- 6 Scottish National Party MSPs (two constituency members four additional members)
- 4 Labour MSPs (all constituency members)
- 3 Liberal Democrat MSPs (all constituency members)
- 3 Conservative MSPs (all additional members)
[edit] Constituency results
Changes:
- Banff and Buchan by-election, 2001: Stewart Stevenson replaced Alex Salmond, who had resigned. Alex Salmond was elected Member of Parliament for the Banff and Buchan constituency of the United Kingdom Parliament the same day as the Scottish Parliament by-election.
[edit] Additional member results
| Scottish parliamentary election, 1999: North East Scotland | ||||||
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| Party | Votes | % | ±% | Number of seats won | Elected candidates | |
| Scottish National Party | 93,329 | 32.3% | N/A | 4 | Brian Adam, Richard Lochhead, Shona Robison, Irene McGugan | |
| Labour | 72,666 | 25.5% | N/A | 0 | ||
| Conservative | 52,149 | 18.3% | N/A | 3 | David Davidson, Ben Wallace, Alex Johnstone | |
| Liberal Democrats | 49,843 | 17.5% | N/A | 0 | ||
| Scottish Green | 8,067 | 2.8% | N/A | 0 | ||
| Socialist Labour | 3,557 | 1.2% | N/A | 0 | ||
| Scottish Socialist | 3,016 | 1.1% | N/A | 0 | ||
| Independent | 2,303 | 0.8% | N/A | 0 | ||
| Independent | 770 | 0.3% | N/A | 0 | ||
| Natural Law | 746 | 0.3% | N/A | 0 | ||
