Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (UK Parliament constituency)
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | |
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Burgh constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | City of Edinburgh East Lothian |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | None |
Seats | One |
Created from | Edinburgh East |
1997–2005 | |
Created from | Edinburgh East |
Replaced by | Edinburgh East East Lothian |
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster) from 1997 to 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
In 1999, a Scottish Parliament constituency was created with the same name and boundaries and continued in use until 2011. See headnote above.
The constituency is to be re-established, as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and under the final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, replacing Edinburgh East once again, to be first contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election.[1]
Boundaries[edit]
Electoral divisions 27 (Meadowbank/Mountcastle), 28 (Links/Restalrig), 29 (Portobello/Milton), 38 (Craigmillar/Duddingston) in City of Edinburgh District; electoral division 44 (Musselburgh/Fisherrow) in East Lothian District.
The constituency covered an eastern portion of the City of Edinburgh council area and a Musselburgh area within the East Lothian council area. It was one of six constituencies covering the City of Edinburgh area, and one of two covering the East Lothian area. The constituency was predominantly urban.
For the 2005 general election, most of the constituency was merged into the new Edinburgh East constituency. The rest of the constituency, the Musselburgh area, was merged into the East Lothian constituency.[2]
Members of Parliament[edit]
Election | Member [3] | Party | |
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1997 | Gavin Strang | Labour | |
2005 | constituency abolished - see Edinburgh East |
Election results[edit]
Elections in the 2020s[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Scottish Green | Amanda Grimm[4] | ||||
Labour | Chris Murray[5] | ||||
SNP | Tommy Sheppard[6] | ||||
Reform UK | Derek Winton[5] |
Elections of the 2000s[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Gavin Strang | 18,124 | 52.6 | −1.0 | |
SNP | Rob Munn | 5,956 | 17.3 | −1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gary Peacock | 4,981 | 14.5 | +3.8 | |
Conservative | Peter Finnie | 3,906 | 11.3 | −4.1 | |
Scottish Socialist | Derek Durkin | 1,487 | 4.3 | New | |
Majority | 12,168 | 35.3 | +0.8 | ||
Turnout | 34,454 | 58.2 | −12.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections of the 1990s[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Gavin Strang | 22,564 | 53.6 | ||
SNP | Derrick White | 8,034 | 19.1 | ||
Conservative | Kenneth F. Ward | 6,483 | 15.4 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Callum I. MacKellar | 4,511 | 10.7 | ||
Referendum | James A. Sibbet | 526 | 1.2 | ||
Majority | 14,530 | 34.5 | |||
Turnout | 42,118 | 70.6 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
See also[edit]
Notes and references[edit]
- ^ "2023 Review of UK Parliament Constituencies Boundary Commission for Scotland Final Recommendations laid before Parliament" (PDF). 28 June 2023.
- ^ "Fifth Periodical Review". Boundary Commission for Scotland. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
- ^ "Amanda Grimm". Twitter. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ a b "Derek Winton". Twitter. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
- ^ https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/dont-write-off-snps-election-chances-tommy-sheppard-4360905
- ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- Constituencies in Edinburgh
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