Angus North and Mearns

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Angus North and Mearns
Angus North and Mearns

North East Scotland

Educated
2011
MP
Mairi Gougeon ( SNP )
Regions
Aberdeenshire
Angus

Angus North and Mearns 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 Angus North and Mearns was formed from areas of the former constituencies West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine and Angus and the northeastern parts of the former constituency North Tayside of the neighboring electoral region Mid Scotland and Fife . It covers southern areas of the Council Area Aberdeenshire and parts of Angus with the towns of Brechin , Forfar and Stonehaven . The constituency sends a representative.

The constituency covers an area of ​​1,442.8 km 2 . In the 2011 census survey, a total of 70,567 people lived within its borders.

Election results

Parliamentary election 2011

Results of the 2011 general election
Political party candidate be right %
SNP Nigel Don 13,660 54.8
Conservative Alex Johnstone 6374 25.6
Labor Kevin Hutchens 3160 12.7
Liberal Democrats Sanjay Samani 1726 6.9
Turnout: 24,920 (47.81%)

General election 2016

Results of the 2016 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
SNP Mairi Gougeon
(as Mairi Evans) 		13,417 45.7 −9.1
Conservative Alex Johnstone 10,945 37.3 +11.7
Labor John Ruddy 2,752 9.4 −3.3
Liberal Democrats Euan Davidson 2,265 7.7 +0.8
Turnout: (54.1%)

Individual evidence

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