Dundee City East (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Dundee City East | |
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burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
Population | 70,971 (2019)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2011 |
Party | Scottish National Party |
MSP | Shona Robison |
Council area | Dundee City |
Created from | Dundee East |
Dundee City East is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of Dundee City. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is one of ten constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
The constituency was created for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, and largely replaced the previous seat of Dundee East.
Electoral region[]
The other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region are Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen Donside, Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns, Angus South, Banffshire and Buchan Coast and Dundee City West.
The region covers all of the Aberdeen City council area, the Aberdeenshire council area, the Angus council area, the Dundee City council area and part of the Moray council area.
Constituency boundaries and council area[]
Dundee City is represented by two constituencies in the Scottish Parliament: Dundee City East and Dundee City West.
A Dundee East constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the existing Westminster constituency. In 2005 the boundaries of the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency were subject to some alteration, and no longer correspond to Holyrood constituencies. The current Holyrood boundaries were introduced for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, with the former Dundeee East being renamed and redrawn slightly to exclude the 'Hebrides' neighbourhood at Claverhouse just west of the A90 road and include new housing developments north of the A92 road near Barnhill.[2][3] The constituency consists of the following electoral wards:[4]
- In full: East End, The Ferry
- In part: Coldside, Maryfield, North East (shared with Dundee City West)
Member of the Scottish Parliament[]
Election | Member | Party | |
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2011 | Shona Robison | Scottish National Party |
Election results[]
2020s[]
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
SNP | Shona Robison[a] | 19,230 | 59.2 | 1.1 | 16,403 | 50.4 | 2.8 | |
Labour | Owen Wright | 5,893 | 18.1 | 1.6 | 5,201 | 16.0 | 1.9 | |
Conservative | Philip Scott | 5,630 | 17.3 | 0.2 | 5,699 | 17.5 | 0.4 | |
Green | 2,267 | 7.0 | 1.8 | |||||
Liberal Democrats | Michael Crichton | 1,431 | 4.4 | 1.2 | 1,067 | 3.3 | 0.8 | |
Alba | 810 | 2.5 | New | |||||
TUSC | Wayne Scott | 287 | 0.9 | 0.6 | ||||
All for Unity | 261 | 0.8 | New | |||||
Independent Green Voice | 246 | 0.8 | New | |||||
Scottish Family | 193 | 0.6 | New | |||||
Freedom Alliance | 83 | 0.3 | New | |||||
Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 81 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Reform UK | 63 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Libertarian | 49 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||
UKIP | 44 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |||||
Restore Scotland | 36 | 0.1 | New | |||||
Independent | Laura Marshall | 29 | 0.1 | New | ||||
Independent | Geoffrey Farquharson | 15 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Renew | 5 | 0.0 | New | |||||
Majority | 13,337 | 41.1 | 2.8 | |||||
Valid Votes | 32,471 | 32,552 | ||||||
Invalid Votes | 155 | 62 | ||||||
Turnout | 32,626 | 58.6 | 6.9 | 32,614 | 58.6 | 6.9 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | |||||||
2010s[]
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
SNP | Shona Robison[a] | 16,509 | 58.1 | 6.2 | 15,159 | 53.2 | 3.2 | |
Labour | Richard McCready | 5,611 | 19.7 | 3.0 | 5,109 | 17.9 | 4.1 | |
Conservative | Bill Bowman | 4,969 | 17.5 | 7.6 | 5,095 | 17.9 | 7.5 | |
Green | 1,475 | 5.2 | 2.2 | |||||
Liberal Democrats | Craig Duncan | 911 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 691 | 2.5 | 0.1 | |
UKIP | 471 | 1.7 | 0.9 | |||||
TUSC | Leah Ganley | 437 | 1.5 | New | ||||
Solidarity | 152 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |||||
Scottish Christian | 137 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |||||
RISE | 77 | 0.3 | New | |||||
National Front | 64 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||||
Communist | 50 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Libertarian | 23 | 0.1 | New | |||||
Majority | 10,898 | 38.3 | 3.1 | |||||
Valid Votes | 28,437 | 28,503 | ||||||
Invalid Votes | 108 | 63 | ||||||
Turnout | 28,545 | 51.7 | 4.1 | 28,566 | 51.7 | 4.4 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | 4.6 | ||||||
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Region | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
SNP | Shona Robison[a] | 16,541 | 64.2 | N/A | 14,418 | 56.4 | N/A | |
Labour | Mohammed Asif | 5,862 | 22.8 | N/A | 5,643 | 22.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Brian Docherty | 2,550 | 9.9 | N/A | 2,664 | 10.4 | N/A | |
Green | 763 | 3.0 | N/A | |||||
Liberal Democrats | Allan Petrie | 800 | 3.1 | N/A | 593 | 2.3 | N/A | |
All-Scotland Pensioners Party | 524 | 2.0 | N/A | |||||
BNP | 207 | 0.8 | N/A | |||||
UKIP | 191 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
Scottish Christian | 179 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
Socialist Labour | 153 | 0.6 | N/A | |||||
Scottish Socialist | 127 | 0.5 | N/A | |||||
Solidarity | 54 | 0.2 | N/A | |||||
Angus Independents | 8 | 0.0 | N/A | |||||
National Front | 1 | 0.0 | N/A | |||||
Others | 57 | 0.2 | N/A | |||||
Majority | 10,679 | 41.4 | N/A | |||||
Valid Votes | 25,753 | 25,582 | ||||||
Invalid Votes | 139 | 118 | ||||||
Turnout | 25,892 | 47.6 | N/A | 25,700 | 47.2 | N/A | ||
SNP win (new seat) | ||||||||
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Scottish Parliamentary Constituency (SPC) Population Estimates (2011 Data Zone based)]". National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ^ Dundee East 1999-2011, Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland
- ^ Dundee City East - from 2011, Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland
- ^ "First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries Final Report" (PDF). Boundaries Scotland. May 2010. p. 105. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ^ "Constituencies A-Z: Dundee City East". BBC News. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
- ^ "Scottish Parliamentary Elections - 6th May 2021". Dundee City Council. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ^ "SPE2016 - North East Scotland Regional List results by constituency" (PDF). Aberdeen City Council. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- ^ "Dundee City East - Scottish Parliament constituency". BBC News. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "Results and turnout at the 2016 Scottish Parliament election". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ^ "2011 Election analysis (Excel 2.37MB)". Scottish Parliament. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ^ "Results and turnout at the 2011 Scottish Parliament election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
External links[]
- "Dundee City East constituency map" (PDF). Boundaries Scotland. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- Constituencies of the Scottish Parliament
- Politics of Dundee
- 2011 establishments in Scotland
- Constituencies established in 2011
- Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions from 2011
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