Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire |
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Educated |
2011 |
MP: |
John Lamont ( Conservative ) |
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 | |||
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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 | ||||
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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 |