Edinburgh South West

Edinburgh South West
Educated
2005
MP
Joanna Cherry ( SNP )
Regions
Edinburgh

Edinburgh South West is a constituency for the British House of Commons . It was created in 2005 and covers the southwest areas of the Edinburgh Council Area . The constituency sends a representative.

Before the elections in 1997, Edinburgh was divided into six constituencies, one of which, Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, also included the city of Musselburgh in neighboring East Lothian . In the course of the electoral reform in 2005, the number of constituencies in Edinburgh was reduced to five, but they only cover the Council Area itself. Edinburgh South West took on large parts of the dissolved constituency of Edinburgh Pentlands .

Election results

General election 2005

Results of the general election 2005
Political party	candidate	be right	%
Labor	Alistair Darling	17,476	39.8
Conservative	Gordon Buchan	10,234	23.3
Liberal Democrats	Simon Clark	9252	21.2
SNP	Nick Elliott-Cannon	4654	10.6
Green	John Blair-Fish	1520	3.5
Socialist	Pat Smith	585	1.3
UKIP	William Boys	205	0.5

General election 2010

Results of the 2010 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Alistair Darling	19,473	42.8	+3.0
Conservative	Jason Rust	11,026	24.3	+1.0
Liberal Democrats	Tim McKay	8194	18.0	−3.2
SNP	Kaukab Stewart	5530	12.2	+1.6
Green	Clare Cooney	872	1.9	−1.6
Socialist	Colin Fox	319	0.7	+0.7
Communist League	Caroline Bellamy	48	0.1	+0.1

General election 2015

Results of the general election 2015
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
SNP	Joanna Cherry	22,168	43.0	+30.8
Labor	Ricky Henderson	14,033	27.2	−15.6
Conservative	Gordon Lindhurst	10,444	20.2	−4.1
Green	Richard Doherty	1965	3.8	+1.9
Liberal Democrats	Dan Farthing-Sykes	1920	3.7	−14.3
UKIP	Richard Lucas	1072	2.1	+2.1

General election 2017

Results of the 2017 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
SNP	Joanna Cherry	17,575	35.6	−7.4
Conservative	Miles Briggs	16,478	33.4	+13.2
Labor	Foysol Choudhury	13,213	26.8	−0.4
Liberal Democrats	Aisha Mir	2124	4.3	+0.6

Individual evidence

1. ^ Map of the constituency
2. ↑ Results of the lower house elections 2005 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Results of the 2010 general election ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the general election 2015