User:Laurel Bush/Workshop IV

Workshop links

• User:Laurel Bush/Toolshed
• User:Laurel Bush/Workshop I
• User:Laurel Bush/Workshop II
• User:Laurel Bush/Workshop III
• User:Laurel Bush/Workshop IV
• User:Laurel Bush/Workshop V
• User:Laurel Bush/Workshop VI

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• Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973
• Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994
• Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994

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Re North Wales (National Assembly for Wales constituency)

North Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of eight constituencies. The electoral region was first used in 1999, when the Assembly for Wales was created.

Each constituency elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elects four additional or top-up Assembly Members, to create a degree of proportional representation. The additional member seats are allocated from closed lists by the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.

Constitueuncies

The eight constituencies have the names and boundaries of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster):

Alyn & Deeside, Caernarfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Conwy, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn

Additional member election results

2003

Party	Regional vote	%	Regional seats	Members elected
Labour	55,250	31.6	0
Plaid Cymru	41,640	23.8	1	Janet Ryder
Conservative	38,543	22.0	2	Mark Isherwood, Brynle Williams
Liberal Democrats	17,503	10.0	1	Eleanor Burnham
John Marek Independent	11,008	6.3	0
UKIP	4,500	2.6	0
Green Party	4,200	2.4	0
Independent Wales	1,552	0.9	0
Communist	522	0.3	0
ProLife	310	0.2	0
TOTAL VOTES	175,028		4

1999

Party	Regional vote	%	Regional seats	Members elected
Labour	73,673	34.2	0
Plaid Cymru	69,518	32.2	1	Janet Ryder
Conservative	41,700	19.4	2	Rod Richards, Peter Rogers
Liberal Democrats	22,130	10.3	1	Christine Humphreys
Rhuddlan Debt Protest Campaign	1,353	0.6	0
Natural Law Party	917	0.4	0
United Socialist	828	0.4	0
Communist	714	0.3	0
TOTAL VOTES	215,500		4

Re Highland Council management areas

• North Highland (Caithness; Sutherland; Tain; Cromarty Firth, which includes Alness, Invergordon and Evanton and Easter Ross);
• Mid and West Highland (Skye, Lochaber, Wester and Mid Ross and Black Isle);
• East Highland (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey).

Re Strathkelvin and Bearsden (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Period	Member of Parliament	Party
1999 to 2001	Sam Galbraith	Labour
2001 to 2003	Brian Fitzpatrick	Labour
3003 to present	Jean Turner	Independent

Re Politics of Edinburgh

• Edinburgh Central constituency was abolished and split between the original Edinburgh North and Leith and Edinburgh West constituencies and an entirely new constituency that was created - Edinburgh South West.
• Edinburgh East and Musselburgh took in parts of the Edinburgh North and Leith seat, with the town of Musselburgh being transferred into the East Lothian constituency, with the new seat renamed Edinburgh East.
• Edinburgh Pentlands constituency was also divided between the new Edinburgh South West seat and the existing Edinburgh South seat.
• Edinburgh North and Leith was increased in size by taking in parts of the old Edinburgh Central constituency.
• Edinburgh South was expanded in size taking in elements of the old Edinburgh Pentlands seat.
• Edinburgh South West was an entirely new constituency created for the 2005 UK general election taking in elements of the old Edinburgh Central seat, the original Edinburgh West seat and Edinburgh Pentlands seat.
• Edinburgh West was expanded to include some parts of the defunct Edinburgh Central seat.

Re City status in the United Kingdom

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City status in the United Kingdom is usually associated with recognition, in the form of letters patent, from the monarch. Also, at present, such cities are usually local government areas, as defined under legislation which has been created during and since the late 19th century.

Re Buchan

For other uses, see User:Laurel Bush/Workshop IV (disambiguation).

Buchan is one six committee areas of Aberdeenshire Council, Scotland. The committee areas were created by the council in 1996, when the Aberdeenshire unitary council area was created under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994. The council area was formed by merging three districts of the Grampian region, Banff and Buchan, Gordon and Kincardine and Deeside.

There is also a town of Buchan and an Earldom of Buchan.

The modern administrative area has a population of 39,160 (2001 census) and an area of 547 km². It contains the towns of Peterhead & Fraserburgh and is adjacent to the administrative areas of Banff and Buchan and Formartine. RAF Buchan, a radar station, is in the area.

Peterhead is the largest town in Buchan and Aberdeenshire; the principal white fish landing port in Europe; and a major oil industry service centre. Equally important is the nearby gas terminal at St Fergus.

Attempts are being made to counter the negative effects of several recent key company closures and economic threats. Inland, the area is dependent upon agriculture, and many villages have seen a decline in population and services. Issues affecting Banff and Buchan also apply here, as does the future of the oil and gas industry. Part of Buchan benefits from EU aid coverage. Opportunities exist through the Buchan Local Action Plan to safeguard and enhance the economic future of Peterhead and Buchan.

The Formartine and Buchan Way runs through Buchan.

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