Perth (constituency, Scotland)

Perth

Educated
1999
Abolished
2011
Regions
Perth and Kinross

Perth was a constituency for the Scottish Parliament . It was introduced in 1999 as one of nine constituencies in the electoral region of Mid Scotland and Fife , which was redesigned as part of the constituency revision in 2011 and continues to include nine constituencies. Here the constituency of Perth was abolished. It included areas of the Council Area Perth and Kinross with the cities of Auchterader , Crieff and Stirling . The areas of the former constituency have essentially merged into the new constituency of Perthshire South and Kinross-shire . In the 2001 census survey, a total of 79,402 people lived within its borders. A deputy was sent.

Election results

General election 1999

Results of the 1999 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%
SNP	Roseanna Cunningham	13,570	36.3
Conservative	Ian Stevenson	11,543	30.9
Labor	Jillian Richards	8725	23.3
Liberal Democrats	Chic Brodie	3558	9.5

General election 2003

Results of the 2003 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
SNP	Roseanna Cunningham	10,717	33.9	−2.4
Conservative	Alexander Stewart	9990	31.6	+0.7
Labor	Robert Ball	5629	17.8	−5.5
Liberal Democrats	Gordon Campbell	3530	11.2	+1.7
Socialist	Philip Stott	982	3.1	+3.1
Non-party	Thomas Burns	509	1.6	+1.6
Scottish People's	Kenneth Buchanan	257	0.8	+0.8
Turnout: 31,614 (51.3%)

General election 2007

Results of the 2007 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
SNP	Roseanna Cunningham	13,751	39.4	+5.5
Conservative	Elizabeth Smith	11,256	32.3	+0.7
Liberal Democrats	Peter Barret	4767	13.7	+2.5
Labor	Doug Maughan	4513	13.0	−4.8
Free Scotland	Jim Fairlie	575	1.6	+1.6
Turnout: 34,862 (56.03%)

Individual evidence

[1] Map of the constituency

[2] 2001 census

[3] Information from the Scottish Parliament

[4] Information from the Scottish Parliament

[5] Information from the Scottish Parliament