Dundee City East

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Dundee City East
Dundee City East

North East Scotland

Educated
2011
MPs
Shona Robison ( SNP )

Shona Robinson

Regions
Dundee

Dundee City 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 constituency revision in 2011. The constituency of Dundee City East was essentially formed from areas of the former constituency of Dundee East . It covers the eastern part of the city of Dundee and sends one MP.

The constituency covers an area of ​​27 km 2 . In the 2011 census survey, a total of 72,001 people lived within its borders.

Election results

Parliamentary election 2011

Results of the 2011 general election
Political party candidate be right %
SNP Shona Robison 16,541 64.2
Labor Mohammed Asif 5862 22.8
Conservative Brian Docherty 2550 9.9
Liberal Democrats Allan Petrie 800 3.1
Turnout: 25,753 (47.34%)

General election 2016

Results of the 2016 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
SNP Shona Robison 16,509 58.1 −6.2
Labor Richard McCready 5,611 19.7 −3.0
Conservative Bill Bowman 4,969 17.5 +7.6
Liberal Democrats Craig Duncan 911 3.2 +0.1
TUSC Leah Ganley 437 1.5 +1.5
Turnout: (51.5%)

Individual evidence

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