Edinburgh Pentlands (constituency, Scotland)

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Edinburgh Pentlands
Edinburgh Pentlands

Lothian

Educated
1999
MP
Gordon MacDonald ( SNP )

Gordon MacDonald

Regions
Edinburgh

Edinburgh Pentlands is a constituency for the Scottish Parliament . It was founded in 1999 as one of nine constituencies of the election region Lothians introduced, as part of the revision of constituencies again cut in 2011 and in Lothian has been renamed. The boundaries of the constituency of Edinburgh Pentlands were redrawn. The constituency includes the south-west areas of Edinburgh and sends one MP.

The constituency covers an area of ​​100.4 km 2 . In the 2011 census survey, a total of 73,177 people lived within its borders.

Election results

General election 1999

Results of the 1999 general election
Political party candidate be right %
Labor Iain Gray 14,343 36.2
Conservative David McLetchie 11,458 28.9
SNP Stewart Gibb 8770 22.2
Liberal Democrats Ian Gibson 5029 12.7

General election 2003

Results of the 2003 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Conservative David McLetchie 12,420 37.2 +8.3
Labor Iain Gray 10,309 30.9 −5.3
SNP Ian McKee 5620 16.8 −5.4
Liberal Democrats Simon Clark 3943 11.8 −0.9
Socialist Frank O'Donnell 1090 3.3 +3.3
Turnout: 33,382 (57.03%)

General election 2007

Results of the 2007 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Conservative David McLetchie 12,927 37.6 +0.4
Labor Sheila Gilmore 8402 24.4 −6.5
SNP Ian McKee 8234 24.0 +7.2
Liberal Democrats Simon Clark 4814 14.0 +2.2
Turnout: 34,377 (59.38%)

Parliamentary election 2011

Results of the 2011 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
SNP Gordon MacDonald 11,197 37.3 +13.3
Conservative David McLetchie 9439 31.4 −6.2
Labor Ricky Henderson 7993 26.6 +2.2
Liberal Democrats Simon Clark 1420 4.5 −9.5
Turnout: 30,049 (57.11%)

General election 2016

Results of the 2016 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
SNP Gordon MacDonald 13,181 39.5 +2.3
Conservative Gordon Lindhurst 10,725 32.2 +0.8
Labor Blair Heary 7,811 23.4 −3.2
Liberal Democrats Emma Farthing-Sykes 1,636 4.9 −0.4
Turnout: 33,353 (60.4%)

Individual evidence

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