Edinburgh North and Leith (UK Parliament constituency)
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Edinburgh North and Leith | |
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Burgh constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Edinburgh North and Leith in Scotland | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | City of Edinburgh |
Major settlements | Leith, Pilrig, Broughton, New Town, Granton, Pilton, West Pilton, Trinity, Newhaven, Stockbridge |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Deidre Brock (SNP) |
Created from | Edinburgh Leith |
Edinburgh North and Leith is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster), first used in the 1997 general election. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
In 1999, a Scottish Parliament constituency was created with the same name and boundaries. See Edinburgh North and Leith (Scottish Parliament constituency). The boundaries of the Westminster constituency were altered, however, in 2005, and the Scottish Parliament constituency retained the older boundaries until 2011. Since then, the seat has mainly been split between the Edinburgh Northern and Leith and Edinburgh Central constituencies at Holyrood, with a small area also located in Edinburgh Western.
In the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the constituency returned an above average No vote; 60% opted for Scotland to stay in the United Kingdom, while 40% preferred Scotland to become an independent country.[1] In the 2016 referendum to leave the European Union, the constituency voted remain by 78.2%. This was the seventh highest support for remain for a constituency.[2]
Boundaries[]
When created in 1997, Edinburgh North and Leith was largely a replacement for the Edinburgh Leith constituency, and was one of six constituencies covering the City of Edinburgh council area. One of those six, Edinburgh East and Musselburgh straddled the boundary with the East Lothian council area to take in Musselburgh. In terms of wards used in elections to the City of Edinburgh Council between 1995-2007, the constituency included the wards of Broughton, Calton, Granton, , , New Town, Newhaven, Pilton, Stockbridge and Trinity.
Constituency boundaries in Scotland were revised for the 2005 election. The number of constituencies within the city was reduced from six to five, each now entirely within the city area, and Musselburgh was reunited with the remainder of East Lothian.[3] A new Edinburgh North and Leith constituency was created, including the whole of the former one, but also taking in the Dean ward from Edinburgh Central and Craigleith ward from Edinburgh West.
As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, these wards were replaced with new, larger wards for the Council elections on 3 May 2007. The constituency now includes parts of the new wards of Leith, Leith Walk, Forth, Inverleith and City Centre, but none of these exclusively.
The constituency is urbanised, and covers several northern communities of the city, as well as most of the former burgh of Leith, which controversially amalgamated with the City of Edinburgh in 1920. It has the highest proportion of residents living in tenements and flats of any parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom with a relatively high proportion of university graduates. It includes a mix of leafy, expensive residential areas in the South and West of the constituency and densely populated areas nearer to Leith with more young professionals and students, as well as older residents whose families have lived there during several previous generations.
It also includes Calton Hill, the shops and offices on the northern side of Princes Street, Bute House, the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland, St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, the Edinburgh Playhouse, the Edinburgh Waterfront, the stretch of the Water of Leith from Dean Village to Leith Harbour, the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Western General Hospital and the private schools of Fettes College, the Edinburgh Academy, The Mary Erskine School and Stewart's Melville College and Telford College.
Members of Parliament[]
Election | Member[4] | Party | |
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1997 | Malcolm Chisholm | Labour | |
2001 | Mark Lazarowicz | Labour Co-op | |
2015 | Deidre Brock | SNP |
Election results[]
Elections in the 2010s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Deidre Brock | 25,925 | 43.7 | ![]() | |
Labour Co-op | Gordon Munro | 13,117 | 22.1 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Iain McGill | 11,000 | 18.5 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Bruce Wilson | 6,635 | 11.2 | ![]() | |
Green | Steve Burgess | 1,971 | 3.3 | ![]() | |
Brexit Party | Robert Speirs | 558 | 0.9 | New | |
Renew | Heather Astbury | 138 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 12,808 | 21.6 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 59,334 | 73.0 | ![]() | ||
SNP hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Deidre Brock | 19,243 | 34.0 | ![]() | |
Labour Co-op | Gordon Munro | 17,618 | 31.1 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Iain McGill | 15,385 | 27.2 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Martin Veart | 2,579 | 4.6 | ![]() | |
Green | Lorna Slater | 1,727 | 3.0 | ![]() | |
Majority | 1,625 | 2.9 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 56,552 | 71.2 | ![]() | ||
SNP hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Deidre Brock | 23,742 | 40.9 | ![]() | |
Labour Co-op | Mark Lazarowicz[10] | 18,145 | 31.3 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Iain McGill[11] | 9,378 | 16.2 | ![]() | |
Green | Sarah Beattie-Smith[12] | 3,140 | 5.4 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Martin Veart | 2,634 | 4.5 | ![]() | |
UKIP | Alan Melville[13] | 847 | 1.5 | New | |
Left Unity (TUSC) | Bruce Whitehead[14] | 122 | 0.2 | ![]() | |
Majority | 5,597 | 9.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 58,008 | 71.7 | ![]() | ||
SNP gain from Labour Co-op | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Mark Lazarowicz | 17,740 | 37.5 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Kevin Lang | 16,016 | 33.8 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Iain McGill | 7,079 | 14.9 | ![]() | |
SNP | Calum Cashley | 4,568 | 9.6 | ![]() | |
Green | Kate Joester | 1,062 | 2.2 | ![]() | |
Liberal | John Hein | 389 | 0.8 | New | |
TUSC | Willie Black | 233 | 0.5 | New | |
Socialist Labour | David Jacobsen | 141 | 0.3 | New | |
Independent | Cameron James MacIntyre | 128 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 1,724 | 3.7 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 47,356 | 68.4 | ![]() | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ![]() |
Elections in the 2000s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Mark Lazarowicz | 14,597 | 34.2 | -7.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mike Crockart | 12,444 | 29.2 | +8.9 | |
Conservative | Iain Whyte | 7,969 | 18.7 | ±0.0 | |
SNP | Davie Hutchison | 4,344 | 10.2 | -4.2 | |
Green | Mark Sydenham | 2,482 | 5.8 | N/A | |
Scottish Socialist | Bill Scott | 804 | 1.9 | -1.7 | |
Majority | 2,153 | 5.0 | -21.5 | ||
Turnout | 42,640 | 62.7 | +8.8 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | -8.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Mark Lazarowicz | 15,271 | 45.9 | -1.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sebastian Tombs | 6,454 | 19.4 | +6.4 | |
SNP | Kaukab Stewart | 5,290 | 15.9 | -4.2 | |
Conservative | Iain Mitchell | 4,626 | 13.9 | -4.0 | |
Scottish Socialist | Catriona Grant | 1,334 | 4.0 | +3.2 | |
Socialist Labour | Don Jacobsen | 259 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 8,817 | 26.5 | -0.3 | ||
Turnout | 33,234 | 53.0 | -13.5 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Malcolm Chisholm | 19,209 | 46.9 | N/A | |
SNP | Anne Dana | 8,231 | 20.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Ewen Stewart | 7,312 | 17.9 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Hillary Campbell | 5,335 | 13.0 | N/A | |
Referendum | Sandy Graham | 441 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Scottish Socialist | Gavin Browne | 320 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Paul Douglas-Reid | 97 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,978 | 26.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 40,945 | 66.5 | N/A | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
See also[]
Notes and references[]
- ^ https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/election-results/scottish-independence-referendum-2014-results/1. Missing or empty
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(help) - ^ "Revised estimates of leave vote in Westminster constituencies". Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- ^ Fifth Periodical Review, Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
- ^ "UK Parliamentary General Election - 12 December 2019". The City of Edinburgh Council. The City of Edinburgh Council. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ "Edinburgh North & Leith parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 May 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ Council, The City of Edinburgh. "UK Parliamentary election results 2015 | The City of Edinburgh Council". www.edinburgh.gov.uk.
- ^ "UK ELECTION RESULTS: EDINBURGH NORTH & LEITH 2015".
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 January 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Edinburgh North & Leith". UK Polling Report. Archived from the original Check
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value (help) on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014. - ^ "UK Polling Report".
- ^ http://votebruce.org
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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