Dumfries (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Dumfries | |
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Former county constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
Former constituency | |
Created | 1999 |
Abolished | 2011 |
Council area | Dumfries and Galloway |
Replaced by | Dumfriesshire, Galloway and West Dumfries |
Dumfries (dum-FREESS) was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It was also one of nine constituencies in the South of Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
From the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, the Dumfries constituency was abolished, with the city being divided between two new constituencies; Dumfriesshire, and Galloway and West Dumfries.
Electoral region
Constituency boundaries and council area
The Dumfries constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.[1]
Member of the Scottish Parliament
Election | Member | Party | ||
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1999 | Elaine Murray | Labour | ||
2011 | Constituency abolished: see Dumfriesshire and Galloway and West Dumfries |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Elaine Murray | 13,707 | 41.0 | +1.0 | |
Conservative | Murray Tosh | 10,860 | 32.5 | -4.1 | |
SNP | Michael Russell | 6,306 | 18.9 | +6.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lynne Hume | 2,538 | 7.6 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 2,839 | 8.5 | +5.1 | ||
Rejected ballots | 1,006 | ||||
Turnout | 33,419 | 53.5 | +1.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Elaine Murray | 12,834 | 40.0 | +3.3 | |
Conservative | David Mundell | 11,738 | 36.6 | +9.4 | |
SNP | Andrew Wood | 3,931 | 12.3 | -7.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Clare Humblen | 2394 | 7.5 | -8.7 | |
Scottish Socialist | John Dennis | 1213 | 3.8 | New | |
Majority | 1,096 | 3.4 | -6.1 | ||
Turnout | 32,110 | 52.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Elaine Murray | 14,101 | 36.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | David Mundell | 10,447 | 27.2 | N/A | |
SNP | Stephen Norris | 7,625 | 19.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Iain Haughie | 6,209 | 16.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,654 | 10.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 38,382 | N/A | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Footnotes
- ^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived September 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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- Use British English from January 2018
- Politics of Dumfries and Galloway
- Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions 1999–2011
- 1999 establishments in Scotland
- Constituencies established in 1999
- 2011 disestablishments in Scotland
- Constituencies disestablished in 2011
- Dumfries
- Annan, Dumfries and Galloway
- Moffat
- Lockerbie
- Langholm