Scottish Parliament constituencies and electoral regions from 2011

As a result of the first periodical review of Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) constituencies,[1] new constituencies and additional member regions of the Scottish Parliament were introduced for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election. The D'Hondt method is used, as previously, in the allocation of additional member seats.

The Boundary Commission for Scotland began the review as announced on 3 July 2007,[2][3] and provisional proposals were published on Thursday 14 February 2008.[4]

The Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004 required the commission to review boundaries of all constituencies except Orkney and Shetland (which cover, respectively, the Orkney Islands council area and the Shetland Islands council area) so that the area covered by the reviewed constituencies continues to be covered by a total of 71 constituencies.

The Orkney and Shetland constituencies were taken into account, however, in review of boundaries of the additional member regions.

Final recommendations followed public consultations and a series of local inquiries, and the terms of the 2004 act required final recommendations to be submitted in a report to the Secretary of State for Scotland not later than 30 June 2010.

Boundary changes

For the purposes of the review the Boundary Commission for Scotland must take into account the boundaries of the local government council areas. In order to do this some council areas were grouped together, the largest of these groupings of provisional proposals consisted of four of Scotland's 32 council areas the smallest only containing one. Constituencies created in 1999 were based on Scottish Westminster constituencies that were created in 1997 and they in turn were based on the boundaries of local government regions and districts and islands areas that existed at the time, but since have been abolished and replaced with the council areas.

Following their proposal processes the Commission published their Final Recommendations. All the review processes were completed with the outlined constituencies below no longer due for alteration.

Constituencies

Constituency	Council area or areas	Additional members region
Aberdeen Central	Aberdeen City	North East Scotland
Aberdeen Donside	Aberdeen City	North East Scotland
Aberdeen South and North Kincardine	Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire	North East Scotland
Aberdeenshire East	Aberdeenshire	North East Scotland
Aberdeenshire West	Aberdeenshire	North East Scotland
Airdrie and Shotts	North Lanarkshire	Central Scotland
Almond Valley	West Lothian	Lothian
Angus North and Mearns	Aberdeenshire, Angus	North East Scotland
Angus South	Angus	North East Scotland
Argyll and Bute	Argyll and Bute	Highlands and Islands
Ayr	South Ayrshire	South Scotland
Banffshire and Buchan Coast	Aberdeenshire, Moray	North East Scotland
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross	Highland	Highlands and Islands
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire	South Scotland
Clackmannanshire and Dunblane	Clackmannanshire, Stirling	Mid Scotland and Fife
Clydebank and Milngavie	East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire	West Scotland
Clydesdale	South Lanarkshire	South Scotland
Coatbridge and Chryston	North Lanarkshire	Central Scotland
Cowdenbeath	Fife	Mid Scotland and Fife
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	North Lanarkshire	Central Scotland
Cunninghame North	North Ayrshire	West Scotland
Cunninghame South	North Ayrshire	West Scotland
Dumbarton	Argyll and Bute, West Dunbartonshire	West Scotland
Dumfriesshire	Dumfries and Galloway	South Scotland
Dunfermline	Fife	Mid Scotland and Fife
Dundee City East	Dundee City	North East Scotland
Dundee City West	Dundee City	North East Scotland
East Kilbride	South Lanarkshire	Central Scotland
East Lothian	East Lothian	South Scotland
Eastwood	East Renfrewshire	West Scotland
Edinburgh Central	City of Edinburgh	Lothian
Edinburgh Eastern	City of Edinburgh	Lothian
Edinburgh Northern and Leith	City of Edinburgh	Lothian
Edinburgh Pentlands	City of Edinburgh	Lothian
Edinburgh Southern	City of Edinburgh	Lothian
Edinburgh Western	City of Edinburgh	Lothian
Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire	Scottish Borders	South Scotland
Falkirk East	Falkirk	Central Scotland
Falkirk West	Falkirk	Central Scotland
Galloway and West Dumfries	Dumfries and Galloway	South Scotland
Glasgow Anniesland	Glasgow City	Glasgow
Glasgow Cathcart	Glasgow City	Glasgow
Glasgow Kelvin	Glasgow City	Glasgow
Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn	Glasgow City	Glasgow
Glasgow Pollok	Glasgow City	Glasgow
Glasgow Provan	Glasgow City	Glasgow
Glasgow Shettleston	Glasgow City	Glasgow
Glasgow Southside	Glasgow City	Glasgow
Greenock and Inverclyde	Inverclyde	West Scotland
Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse	South Lanarkshire	Central Scotland
Inverness and Nairn	Highland	Highlands and Islands
Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley	East Ayrshire	South Scotland
Kirkcaldy	Fife	Mid Scotland and Fife
Linlithgow	West Lothian	Lothian
Midlothian North and Musselburgh	East Lothian, Midlothian	Lothian
Midlothian South, Tweedale and Lauderdale	Midlothian, Scottish Borders	South Scotland
Mid Fife and Glenrothes	Fife	Mid Scotland and Fife
Motherwell and Wishaw	North Lanarkshire	Central Scotland
Moray	Moray	Highlands and Islands
Na h-Eileanan an Iar	Na h-Eileanan Siar	Highlands and Islands
North East Fife	Fife	Mid Scotland and Fife
Orkney	Orkney Islands	Highlands and Islands
Paisley	Renfrewshire	West Scotland
Perthshire North	Perth and Kinross	Mid Scotland and Fife
Perthshire South and Kinross-shire	Perth and Kinross	Mid Scotland and Fife
Renfrewshire North and West	Inverclyde, Renfrewshire	West Scotland
Renfrewshire South	East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire	West Scotland
Rutherglen	South Lanarkshire	Glasgow
Shetland	Shetland Islands	Highlands and Islands
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch	Highland	Highlands and Islands
Stirling	Stirling	Mid Scotland and Fife
Strathkelvin and Bearsden	East Dunbartonshire	West Scotland
Uddingston and Bellshill	North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire	Central Scotland

Electoral regions

The Boundary Commission also recommended changes to the electoral regions used to elect "list" members of the Scottish Parliament. The recommendations[5] can be summarised below;

Region	Constituencies	map
Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill
Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Provan Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Southside Rutherglen
Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Ross Inverness and Nairn Moray Na h-Eileanan an Iar Orkney Shetland Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch
Lothian	Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh
Mid Scotland and Fife	Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Mid Fife and Glenrothes North East Fife Perthshire North Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Stirling
North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen Donside Aberdeen South and North Kincardine Aberdeenshire East Aberdeenshire West Angus North and Mearns Angus South Banffshire and Buchan Coast Dundee City East Dundee City West
South Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Dumfriesshire East Lothian Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire Galloway and West Dumfries Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale
West Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Cunninghame South Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley Renfrewshire North and West Renfrewshire South Strathkelvin and Bearsden

Historical representation by party

Central Scotland

Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Scottish Socialist

	1999	2003	2007	2011	14	2016
Airdrie and Shotts	Whitefield			Neil
Coatbridge and Chryston	E. Smith					MacGregor
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	Craigie			Hepburn
East Kilbride	A. Kerr			Fabiani
Falkirk East	Peattie			A. MacDonald
Falkirk West	Canavan		Matheson
Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse / Hamilton South (1999–2011)	McCabe			McKelvie
Motherwell and Wishaw	McConnell			Pentland		Adamson
Uddingston and Bellshill / Hamilton North and Bellshill (1999–2011)	M. McMahon					Lyle
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Jamieson		Coffey	abolished

Central Scotland 1	Gorrie		O'Donnell	Griffin
Central Scotland 2	A. Wilson	Leckie	Hepburn	S. McMahon		Leonard
Central Scotland 3	Neil			McCulloch		Lennon
Central Scotland 4	Fabiani			Lyle		E. Smith
Central Scotland 5	Matheson		McKelvie	Adamson		G. Simpson
Central Scotland 6	Paterson	Swinburne	J. Wilson		-->	Harris
Central Scotland 7	McIntosh	Mitchell

Glasgow

Conservative Green Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Scottish Socialist Solidarity

	1999	00	02	2003	05	06	2007	09	2011	2016
Glasgow Anniesland	Dewar	Butler							Kidd
Glasgow Cathcart	Watson				Gordon				Dornan
Glasgow Govan / Glasgow Southside (2011)	Jackson						Sturgeon
Glasgow Kelvin	McNeill								White
Glasgow Pollok	Lamont									Yousaf
Glasgow Rutherglen / Rutherglen (2011)	Hughes						Kelly			Haughey
Glasgow Shettleston	McAveety								Mason
Glasgow Maryhill / Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn (2011)	Ferguson									Doris
Glasgow Springburn / Glasgow Provan (2011)	Martin									McKee
Glasgow Baillieston	Curran								abolished

Glasgow 1	Gibson			P. Harvie
Glasgow 2	Sturgeon						Doris			Sarwar
Glasgow 3	White								Yousaf	Lamont
Glasgow 4	Elder		-->	Kane			Ahmad	McLaughlin	Malik	Kelly
Glasgow 5	Sheridan					-->	Kidd		D. Smith	McNeill
Glasgow 6	R. Brown								McTaggart	Tomkins
Glasgow 7	Aitken								R. Davidson	Wells

Highlands and Islands

Conservative Green Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party

	1999	2003	06	2007	2011	12	2016	17	19
Argyll and Bute	Lyon			Mather	Russell
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross / Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (1999–2011)	Stone				Gibson		G. Ross
Inverness and Nairn / Inverness East,Nairn and Lochaber (1999–2011)	F. Ewing
Moray	M. Ewing		Lochhead
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch / Ross, Skye and Inverness West (1999–2011)	Munro				Thompson		Forbes
Na h-Eileanan an Iar / Western Isles (1999–2011)	Morrison			Allan
Orkney	J. Wallace				McArthur
Shetland	T. Scott								Wishart

Highlands and Islands 1	W. Ewing	Gibson			J. Finnie	Finnie	Finnie
Highlands and Islands 2	Hamilton	Mather		Hamilton	MacKenzie		Todd
Highlands and Islands 3	Macmillan			D. Stewart
Highlands and Islands 4	Grant	E. Scott		Grant
Highlands and Islands 5	Peacock				Urquhart	Urquhart	D. Ross	Johnston
Highlands and Islands 6	McGrigor						Mountain
Highlands and Islands 7	Scanlon		Petrie	Scanlon			Cameron

Lothian / Lothians (1999–2011)

Conservative Green Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Scottish Socialist

	1999	2003	May 2007	Aug 07	2011	13	14	2016	19
Almond Valley / Livingston (1999–2011)	Muldoon		Constance
Edinburgh Eastern / Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (1999–2011)	Deacon		MacAskill					Denham
Edinburgh Central	Boyack				Biagi			R. Davidson
Edinburgh Northern and Leith / Edinburgh North and Leith (1999–2011)	Chisholm							Macpherson
Edinburgh Pentlands	Gray	McLetchie			G. MacDonald
Edinburgh Southern / Edinburgh South (1999–2011)	A. MacKay	Pringle		Eadie				Johnson
Edinburgh Western / Edinburgh West (1999–2011)	M. Smith				Keir			Cole-Hamilton
Linlithgow	Mulligan				Hyslop
Midlothian North and Musselburgh / Midlothian (1999–2011)	Brankin				Beattie

Lothian 1 / Lothians 1 (1999–2011)	Harper				Ali. Johnstone
Lothian 2 / Lothians 2 (1999–2011)	M. MacDonald	-->					vacant	Wightman
Lothian 3 / Lothians 3 (1999–2011)	Hyslop				Dugdale				Boyack
Lothian 4 / Lothians 4 (1999–2011)	MacAskill			McKee	Findlay
Lothian 5 / Lothians 5 (1999–2011)	Steel	Fox	Tymkewycz	Somerville	Boyack			Lindhurst
Lothian 6 / Lothians 6 (1999–2011)	Douglas-Hamilton		G. Brown					Briggs
Lothian 7 / Lothians 7 (1999–2011)	McLetchie	Ballard	Foulkes		McLetchie	Buchanan		Balfour

Mid Scotland and Fife

Conservative Green Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party

	1999	2003	05	2007	2011	12	13	14	2016
Cowdenbeath					Eadie			Rowley	A. Ewing
Dunfermline					Walker	-->	Hilton		Somerville
Dunfermline East (1999–2011)	Eadie
Dunfermline West (1999–2011)	Barrie			Tolson
Clackmannanshire and Dunblane / Ochil (1999–2011)	R. Simpson	Reid		K. Brown
Mid Fife and Glenrothes / Fife Central (1999–2011)	McLeish	May		Marwick					Gilruth
Kirkcaldy	Livingstone				Torrance
North East Fife	I. Smith				R. Campbell				Rennie
Perthshire North / North Tayside (1999–2011)	Swinney
Perthshire South and Kinross-shire / Perth (1999–2011)	Cunningham
Stirling	Jackson			Crawford

Mid Scotland and Fife 1	Crawford			C. Harvie	A. Ewing				Ruskell
Mid Scotland and Fife 2	Marwick			Park	Baxter				Rowley
Mid Scotland and Fife 3	Reid	Ruskell		Brennan-Baker
Mid Scotland and Fife 4	Raffan		Arbuckle	R. Simpson					Lockhart
Mid Scotland and Fife 5	Harding	Brocklebank			Rennie				A. Stewart
Mid Scotland and Fife 6	Johnston	Fraser
Mid Scotland and Fife 7	Monteith			E. Smith

North East Scotland

Conservative Green Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party

	1999	01	2003	06	2007	2011	13	Jan 16	May 2016	Dec 16	17
Aberdeen Central	L. MacDonald					K. Stewart
Aberdeen Donside / Aberdeen North (1999–2011)	E. Thomson		B. Adam				McDonald				-->
Aberdeen South and North Kincardine / Aberdeen South (1999–2011)	Stephen					Watt
Aberdeenshire East / Gordon (1999–2011)	Radcliffe			Salmond					Martin
Aberdeenshire West / West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (1999–2011)	Rumbles					Robertson			Burnett
Angus (1999–2011)	Welsh
Angus North and Mearns (2011-)						Don			Evans
Angus South (2011-)						Dey
Banffshire and Buchan Coast / Banff and Buchan (1999–2011)	Salmond	Stevenson
Dundee City East / Dundee East (1999–2011)	McAllion		Robison
Dundee City West / Dundee West (1999–2011)	Maclean				FitzPatrick

North East Scotland 1	Robison		Glen			Marra
North East Scotland 2	B. Adam		Baird		Don	L. MacDonald
North East Scotland 3	McGugan		Baker					Brennan	R. Thomson		Mason
North East Scotland 4	Lochhead			Watt		McDonald	Allard		Chapman
North East Scotland 5	Ale. Johnstone									Bowman
North East Scotland 6	B. Wallace		Milne						L. Kerr
North East Scotland 7	D. Davidson				McInnes				Rumbles

South of Scotland / South Scotland (2011)

Conservative Green Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Reform UK Scottish National Party Scottish Socialist Solidarity

	1999	00	2003	05	06	2007	2011	2016	17	20	21
Ayr	Welsh	J. Scott
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	Jamieson						Ingram	Freeman
Clydesdale	Gillon						A. Campbell
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale / Galloway and West Dumfries (2011)	Morgan		Fergusson					Carson
Dumfries / Dumfriesshire (2011)	Murray							O. Mundell
Roxburgh and Berwickshire / Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire (2011)	Robson					Lamont			Hamilton
Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale / Midlothian S, Tweeddale & Lauderdale (2011)	Jenkins		Purvis				Grahame
East Lothian	Home Robertson					Gray
Cunninghame South	Oldfather
Kilmarnock & Irvine Valley							Coffey

South of Scotland 1 / South Scotland 1 (2011)	Grahame						McAlpine
South of Scotland 2 / South Scotland 2 (2011)	Ingram						Wheelhouse
South of Scotland 3 / South Scotland 3 (2011)	Russell		Morgan				McLeod	Harper
South of Scotland 4 / South Scotland 4 (2011)	Fergusson		Byrne		-->	Russell	Brodie	Hamilton	Ballantyne	-->	-->
South of Scotland 5 / South Scotland 5 (2011)	Tosh		Ballance			A. Campbell	Beamish
South of Scotland 6 / South Scotland 6 (2011)	D. Mundell			Brownlee			Pearson	Smyth
South of Scotland 7 / South Scotland 7 (2011)	Gallie					Hume		Whittle

West of Scotland / West Scotland (2011)

Conservative Green Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Scottish Socialist

	1999	01	2003	2007	2011	2016	20
Strathkelvin and Bearsden	Galbraith	Fitzpatrick	Turner	Whitton	McLeod	R. Mackay
Clydebank and Milngavie	McNulty				Paterson
Dumbarton	Baillie
Eastwood	Macintosh					Carlaw
Paisley South / Renfrewshire South (2011)	Henry					Arthur
Paisley North / Paisley (2011)	Alexander				G. Adam
West Renfrewshire / Renfrewshire North and West (2011)	Godman				D. Mackay		-->
Greenock and Inverclyde	McNeil					McMillan
Cunninghame North	A. Wilson			K. Gibson
Cunninghame South					Burgess	Maguire

West of Scotland 1 / West Scotland 1 (2011)	C. Campbell		Maxwell			Greer
West of Scotland 2 / West Scotland 2 (2011)	Ullrich		Martin	McMillan		Macintosh
West of Scotland 3 / West Scotland 3 (2011)	Quinan		McFee	W. Wilson	Fee
West of Scotland 4 / West Scotland 4 (2011)	McLeod		F. Curran	Paterson	Bibby
West of Scotland 5 / West Scotland 5 (2011)	R. Finnie				McDougall	Greene
West of Scotland 6 / West Scotland 6 (2011)	Goldie					Golden
West of Scotland 7 / West Scotland 7 (2011)	Young		Tosh	Carlaw		Corry

References

"First Periodical Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries". Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
"Review of Constituencies at the Scottish Parliament" (PDF) (Press release). Boundary Commission for Scotland website. 3 July 2007. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
"Constituency boundaries reviewed". BBC News. 3 July 2007.
"Provisional proposals for constituencies for the Scottish Parliament" (PDF) (Press release). Scottish Office. 14 February 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
"First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries. Public Consultation (map)" (PDF). Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 3 July 2016.

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[1] "First Periodical Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries". Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 3 July 2016.

[2] "Review of Constituencies at the Scottish Parliament" (PDF) (Press release). Boundary Commission for Scotland website. 3 July 2007. Retrieved 3 July 2016.

[3] "Constituency boundaries reviewed". BBC News. 3 July 2007.

[4] "Provisional proposals for constituencies for the Scottish Parliament" (PDF) (Press release). Scottish Office. 14 February 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2016.

[5] "First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries. Public Consultation (map)" (PDF). Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 3 July 2016.