Scottish Westminster constituencies from 2005
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As a result of the Fifth Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, Scotland is covered by 59 constituencies of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament - 19 Burgh constituencies and 40 County constituencies. Constituencies marked * appear on the Central Area Enlargement.
Constituencies and council areas[]
The Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland related the boundaries of new constituencies to those of Scottish local government council areas and to local government wards. Apart from a few minor adjustments, the council area boundaries dated from 1996 and the ward boundaries dated from 1999. Some council areas were grouped to form larger areas and, within these larger areas, some constituencies straddle council area boundaries.
The same council area and ward boundaries were in use when the new constituencies were first used in 2005, but ward boundaries have changed since then. New wards were introduced for the 2007 Scottish local government elections.
Current MPs[]
Scottish National Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats Alba
Name | Electorate[1] | Majority[2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | ||
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Aberdeen North BC | 62,489 | 12,670 | Kirsty Blackman | Ryan Houghton | ||
Aberdeen South BC | 65,719 | 3,990 | Stephen Flynn | Douglas Lumsden | ||
Airdrie and Shotts CC | 64,011 | 1,757 | Anum Qaisar | Kenneth Stevenson | ||
Angus CC | 63,952 | 3,795 | Dave Doogan | Kirstene Hair | ||
Argyll and Bute CC | 66,525 | 4,110 | Brendan O'Hara | Gary Mulvaney | ||
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock CC | 71,970 | 2,329 | Allan Dorans | Martin Dowey | ||
Banff and Buchan CC | 66,655 | 4,118 | David Duguid | Paul Robertson | ||
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk CC | 74,518 | 5,148 | John Lamont | Calum Kerr | ||
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross CC | 46,930 | 204 | Jamie Stone | Karl Rosie | ||
Central Ayrshire CC | 69,742 | 5,304 | Philippa Whitford | Derek Stillie | ||
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill BC | 72,943 | 5,624 | Steven Bonnar | Hugh Gaffney | ||
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East CC | 66,079 | 12,976 | Stuart McDonald | James McPhilemy | ||
Dumfries and Galloway CC | 74,580 | 1,805 | Alister Jack | Richard Arkless | ||
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale CC | 68,330 | 3,781 | David Mundell | Amanda Burgauer | ||
Dundee East BC | 66,210 | 13,375 | Stewart Hosie | Phillip Scott | ||
Dundee West BC | 64,431 | 12,259 | Chris Law | Jim Malone | ||
Dunfermline and West Fife CC | 76,652 | 10,669 | Douglas Chapman | Cara Hilton | ||
East Dunbartonshire CC | 66,075 | 149 | Amy Callaghan | Jo Swinson | ||
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow CC | 81,224 | 13,322 | Lisa Cameron | Monique McAdams | ||
East Lothian CC | 81,600 | 3,886 | Kenny MacAskill[n 1] | Martin Whitfield | ||
East Renfrewshire CC | 72,232 | 5,425 | Kirsten Oswald | Paul Masterton | ||
Edinburgh East BC | 69,424 | 10,417 | Tommy Sheppard | Sheila Gilmore | ||
Edinburgh North and Leith BC | 81,336 | 12,808 | Deidre Brock | Gordon Munro | ||
Edinburgh South BC | 66,188 | 11,095 | Ian Murray | Catriona McDonald | ||
Edinburgh South West BC | 73,501 | 11,982 | Joanna Cherry | Callum Laidlaw | ||
Edinburgh West BC | 72,507 | 3,769 | Christine Jardine | Sarah Masson | ||
Falkirk CC | 84,472 | 14,948 | John McNally | Lynn Munro | ||
Glasgow Central BC | 69,230 | 6,474 | Alison Thewliss | Faten Hameed | ||
Glasgow East BC | 67,381 | 5,556 | David Linden | Kate Watson | ||
Glasgow North BC | 57,130 | 5,601 | Patrick Grady | Pam Duncan-Glancy | ||
Glasgow North East BC | 61,075 | 2,458 | Anne McLaughlin | Paul Sweeney | ||
Glasgow North West BC | 63,402 | 8,359 | Carol Monaghan | Patricia Ferguson | ||
Glasgow South BC | 70,891 | 9,005 | Stewart McDonald | Johann Lamont | ||
Glasgow South West BC | 64,575 | 4,900 | Chris Stephens | Matt Kerr | ||
Glenrothes CC | 65,762 | 11,757 | Peter Grant | Pat Egan | ||
Gordon CC | 79,629 | 819 | Richard Thomson | Colin Clark | ||
Inverclyde CC | 60,622 | 7,512 | Ronnie Cowan | Martin McCluskey | ||
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey CC | 78,059 | 10,440 | Drew Hendry | Fiona Fawcett | ||
Kilmarnock and Loudoun CC | 74,517 | 12,659 | Alan Brown | Caroline Hollins | ||
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath CC | 72,853 | 1,243 | Neale Hanvey[n 2] | Lesley Laird | ||
Lanark and Hamilton East CC | 77,659 | 5,187 | Angela Crawley | Shona Haslam | ||
Linlithgow and East Falkirk CC | 87,044 | 11,266 | Martyn Day | Charles Kennedy | ||
Livingston CC | 82,285 | 13,435 | Hannah Bardell | Damian Timson | ||
Midlothian CC | 70,544 | 5,705 | Owen Thompson | Danielle Rowley | ||
Moray CC | 71,035 | 413 | Douglas Ross | Laura Mitchell | ||
Motherwell and Wishaw BC | 68,856 | 6,268 | Marion Fellows | Angela Feeney | ||
Na h-Eileanan an Iar CC | 21,106 | 2,538 | Angus MacNeil | Alison McCorquodale | ||
North Ayrshire and Arran | 73,534 | 8,521 | Patricia Gibson | David Rocks | ||
North East Fife CC | 60,905 | 1,316 | Wendy Chamberlain | Stephen Gethins | ||
Ochil and South Perthshire CC | 78,776 | 4,498 | John Nicolson | Luke Graham | ||
Orkney and Shetland CC | 34,211 | 2,507 | Alistair Carmichael | Robert Leslie | ||
Paisley and Renfrewshire North CC | 72,007 | 11,902 | Gavin Newlands | Alison Taylor | ||
Paisley and Renfrewshire South CC | 64,385 | 10,679 | Mhairi Black | Moira Ramage | ||
Perth and North Perthshire CC | 72,600 | 7,550 | Pete Wishart | Angus Forbes | ||
Ross, Skye and Lochaber CC | 54,230 | 9,443 | Ian Blackford | Craig Harrow | ||
Rutherglen and Hamilton West BC | 80,918 | 5,230 | Margaret Ferrier | Gerard Killen | ||
Stirling CC | 68,473 | 9,254 | Alyn Smith | Stephen Kerr | ||
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine CC | 72,640 | 843 | Andrew Bowie | Fergus Mutch | ||
West Dunbartonshire CC | 66,517 | 9,553 | Martin Docherty-Hughes | Jean-Anne Mitchell |
The aggregate votes of all Scottish constituencies for the 2019 general election are as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
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Scottish National Party | 1,242,380 | 45.0% | 8.1% | 48 | 13 |
Conservative | 692,939 | 25.1% | 3.5% | 6 | 7 |
Labour | 511,838 | 18.6% | 8.5% | 1 | 6 |
Liberal Democrats | 263,417 | 9.5% | 2.7% | 4 | 0 |
Greens | 28,122 | 1.0% | 0.8% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 13,243 | 0.5% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 7,122 | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 2,759,061 | 100.0 | 59 |
List of constituencies by party[]
Proposed boundary changes[]
The Boundary Commission for Scotland submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.
Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.
On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries. Subsequently, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020 was passed into law on 14 December 2020. This formally removed the duty to implement the 2018 review and set out the framework for future boundary reviews. The Act provided that the number of constituencies should remain at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.
The Act specified that the next review should be completed no later than 1 July 2023 and the Boundary Commission formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021. The Commission have calculated that the number of seats to be allocated to Scotland will decrease by 2, from 59 to 57. This includes the protected constituencies of Na h-Eileanan an Iar and Orkney and Shetland.
As part of public consultations for the ongoing 2023 review of Westminster constituency boundaries, the Boundary Commission for Scotland released its initial proposals on 14 October 2021.[3] The 55 proposed constituencies for Scotland are as follows.[3]
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Results history[]
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[4]
Percentage votes[]
Key:
CON - Conservative Party, including the National Liberal Party up to 1966 and the Unionist Party up to 1964
LAB - Labour Party
LIB - Liberal Party up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992
SNP - Scottish National Party
Other - includes Scottish Green Party, UK Independence Party and Brexit Party (2019)
Seats[]
CON - Conservative Party, including the National Liberal Party up to 1966 and the Unionist Party up to 1964
LAB - Labour Party (2001 & 2005 - includes the Speaker, Michael Martin)
LIB - Liberal Party up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992
OTH - 1945 - Independent Labour Party (3); Communist Party (1); Independent Unionist (John Mackie) (1); 1959 - Independent Unionist (David Robertson)
SNP - Scottish National Party
See also[]
- List of Great Britain and UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland from 1707 for graphical representation by party
- Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions for seats in the Scottish Parliament
- Scottish Westminster constituencies 1918 to 1950
Footnotes[]
References[]
- ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Cite journal requires
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- ^ a b "Boundary Commission for Scotland consults on new boundaries for UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland" (PDF) (Press release). Boundary Commission for Scotland. 14 October 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Cite journal requires
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- Lists of constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Scotland
- 2005 establishments in Scotland
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2005