Edinburgh Southern (constituency, Scotland)

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Edinburgh Southern
Edinburgh Southern

Lothian

Educated
1999
MP
Daniel Johnson ( Labor )
Regions
Edinburgh

Edinburgh Southern is a constituency for the Scottish Parliament . It was introduced in 1999 under the name Edinburgh South as one of nine constituencies in the Lothians electoral region . In the course of the revision of the electoral regions in 2011, the Lothians region was redesigned and renamed Lothian . The boundaries of Edinburgh South were redrawn and the constituency was renamed Edinburgh Southern . The constituency includes the southern areas of Edinburgh and sends one MP.

The constituency covers an area of ​​19.2 km 2 . In the 2011 census survey, a total of 77,561 people lived within its borders.

Election results

General election 1999

Results of the 1999 general election
Political party candidate be right %
Labor Angus MacKay 14,869 37.1
SNP Margo MacDonald 9445 23.5
Liberal Democrats Mike Pringle 8961 22.3
Conservative Iain Whyte 6378 15.9
Socialist Workers William Black 482 1.2
Turnout: 40,135 (62.61%)

General election 2003

Results of the 2003 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Liberal Democrats Mike Pringle 10,005 32.1 +9.8
Labor Angus MacKay 9847 31.6 −5.5
Conservative Gordon Buchan 5180 16.6 +0.7
SNP Alex Orr 4396 14.1 −9.4
Socialist Shirley Gibb 1768 5.7 +5.7
Turnout: 31,196 (51.68%)

General election 2007

Results of the 2007 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Liberal Democrats Mike Pringle 11,398 35.0 +2.9
Labor Donald Anderson 9469 29.1 −2.5
SNP Robert Holland 6117 18.8 +4.7
Conservative Gavin Brown 5589 17.2 +0.6
Turnout: 32,573 (56.53%)

Parliamentary election 2011

Results of the 2011 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
SNP Jim Eadie 9947 29.4 +10.6
Labor Paul Godzik 9254 27.4 −1.7
Liberal Democrats Mike Pringle 8279 24.6 −10.4
Conservative Gavin Brown 6298 18.6 +1.4
Turnout: 33,796 (61.60%)

General election 2016

Results of the 2016 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Labor Daniel Johnson 13,597 35.5 +8.2
SNP Jim Eadie 12,474 32.6 +3.2
Conservative Miles Briggs 9,972 26.1 +7.4
Liberal Democrats Pramod Subbaraman 2,216 5.8 −18.8
Turnout: 38,259 (64.2%)

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