Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire

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Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire

South Scotland

Educated
2011
MP:
John Lamont ( Conservative )

John Lamont

Regions
Scottish Borders

Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire is a constituency for the Scottish Parliament . It was introduced in the course of the constituencies' revision in 2011 as one of nine constituencies in the electoral region of South of Scotland . It covers much of the former constituency of Roxburgh and Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders Council Area and sends one MP.

The constituency covers an area of ​​3,169.2 km 2 . In the 2011 census survey, a total of 68,312 people lived within its borders.

Election results

Parliamentary election 2011

Results of the 2011 general election
Political party candidate be right %
Conservative John Lamont 12,933 44.9
SNP Paul Wheelhouse 7599 26.4
Liberal Democrats Euan Robson 4990 17.3
Labor Rab Stewart 2986 10.4
Non-party Jesse Rae 308 1.1
Turnout: 28,816 (53.04%)

General election 2016

Results of the 2016 general election
Political party candidate be right % ±
Conservative John Lamont 18,257 55.2 +10.3
SNP Paul Wheelhouse 10,521 31.8 +5.4
Liberal Democrats Jim Hume 2,551 7.7 −9.6
Labor Barrie Cunning 1,766 5.3 −5.0
Turnout: 33,095

Individual evidence

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