Aberdeenshire East

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Aberdeenshire East
Aberdeenshire East

North East Scotland

Educated
2011
MP
Gillian Martin ( SNP )

Gillian Martin

Regions
Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire East is a constituency for the Scottish Parliament . It was introduced in 2011 as one of ten constituencies in the electoral region of North East Scotland , which was redesigned and expanded from nine to ten constituencies as part of the constituencies' revision in 2011. Here, the constituency of Aberdeenshire East was formed from areas of the former constituencies of Gordon and Banff and Buchan . It covers northeastern areas of the Council Area Aberdeenshire with the cities of Inverurie , Ellon and Turriff . The constituency sends a representative.

The constituency covers an area of ​​1395.5 km 2 . In the 2011 census survey, a total of 77,427 people lived within its borders.

Election results

Parliamentary election 2011

Results of the 2011 general election
Political party candidate be right %
SNP Alex Salmond 19,533 64.5
Liberal Democrats Alison McInnes 4238 14.0
Conservative Geordie Burnett Stuart 4211 13.9
Labor Peter Smyth 2304 7.6
Turnout: 30,286 (52.59%)

General election 2016

Results of the 2016 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
SNP Gillian Martin 15,912 45.8 −18.7
Conservative Colin Clark 10,075 29.0 +15.1
Liberal Democrats Christine Jardine 6,611 19.0 +5.0
Labor Sarah Flavell 2,155 6.2 −1.4
Turnout: 34,753 (55.3%)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Map of the constituency
  2. ↑ 2011 census
  3. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  4. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament