Summary
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale 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. This constituency was abolished for the 2011 election, with 78.4% of the constituency being incorporated into the new Galloway and West Dumfries (Scottish Parliament constituency), with the rest becoming part of the Dumfriesshire (Scottish Parliament constituency).[1]
| Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | |
|---|---|
| Former county constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
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 Galloway and Upper Nithsdale shown within the South of Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1999 |
| Abolished | 2011 |
| Council area | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Replaced by | Dumfriesshire, Galloway and West Dumfries |
Electoral region edit
Constituency boundaries and council area edit
The Galloway and Upper Nithsdale 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 (House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.[2]
Member of the Scottish Parliament edit
Alex Fergusson represented the constituency from the 2003 election until its abolition in 2011, having previously been an additional MSP for the South of Scotland region from 1999 to 2003. Originally elected as a Conservative, he was the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2007 to 2011, a post which required him to relinquish party allegiance.
| Election | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Alasdair Morgan | Scottish National Party | ||
| 2003 | Alex Fergusson | Conservative | ||
| 2007 | Presiding Officer | |||
| 2011 | constituency abolished: replaced by Dumfriesshire, and Galloway and West Dumfries | |||
Election results edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Alex Fergusson | 13,387 | 44.2 | +6.0 | |
| SNP | Alasdair Morgan | 10,054 | 33.2 | -4.7 | |
| Labour | Stephen Hodgson | 4,935 | 16.3 | +1.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alastair Cooper | 1,631 | 5.4 | -0.8 | |
| Independent | Sandy Richardson | 311 | 1.0 | New | |
| Majority | 3,333 | 11.0 | +10.7 | ||
| Turnout | 31,295 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Alex Fergusson | 11,332 | 38.2 | +8.0 | |
| SNP | Alasdair Morgan | 11,233 | 37.9 | −1.4 | |
| Labour | Norma Harte | 4,299 | 14.5 | −5.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Neil Wallace | 1,847 | 6.2 | −3.9 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Joy Cherkaoui | 709 | 2.4 | New | |
| Majority | 99 | 0.3 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 29,420 | ||||
| Conservative gain from SNP | Swing | +4.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Alasdair Morgan | 13,873 | 39.3 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Alex Fergusson | 10,672 | 30.2 | N/A | |
| Labour | Jim Stevens | 7,209 | 20.4 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Joan Mitchell | 3,562 | 10.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 3,201 | 9.1 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 35,316 | N/A | |||
| SNP win (new seat) | |||||
Footnotes edit
- ^ "The New Scottish Parliament Constituencies 2011" (PDF). BBC News.
- ^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sub-constituency election results for the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections - data Archived 6 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine- Scotland Office; 30 April 2008 (retrieved 5 April 2011)