Aberdeen North (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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**Aberdeen North**
Scottish Parliament burgh constituency

Aberdeen North shown within the North East Scotland electoral region
Created:	1999
MSP:	Brian Adam
Party:	Scottish National Party
Council area:	Aberdeen City (part)

Aberdeen North is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

1 Electoral region
2 Constituency boundaries
- 2.1 Council area
3 Member of the Scottish Parliament
4 Election results
5 Politics and history of the constituency

[edit] Electoral region

The other eight constituencies of the North East Scotland region are Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen South, Angus, Banff and Buchan, Dundee East, Dundee West, Gordon and West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

The region covers the Aberdeenshire council area, the Aberdeen City council area, the Dundee City council area, part of the Angus council area, a small part of the Moray council area and a small part of the Perth and Kinross council area.

[edit] Constituency boundaries

The Aberdeen North constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, the boundaries of the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency were subject to major alterations.

[edit] Council area

The Holyrood constituency is within the Aberdeen City council area, which is divided between three North East Scotland constituencies: Aberdeen North, Aberdeen Central and Aberdeen South. All three are entirely within the city area.

[edit] Member of the Scottish Parliament

1999 - 2003: Elaine Thomson, Labour
2003 - present: Brian Adam, Scottish National Party

[edit] Election results

Scottish parliamentary election, 2003: Aberdeen North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Scottish National Party	Brian Adam	8,381	33.5	-2.2
	Labour	Elaine Thomson	7,924	31.7	-5.5
	Liberal Democrats	John Reynolds	5,767	23.0	+5.9
	Conservative	Jim Gifford	2,311	9.2	-0.7
	Scottish Socialist	Katrine Trolle	644	2.6	+2.6
Majority			457	1.8
Turnout			25027	47.3
	Scottish National Party gain from Labour		Swing	+1.7

Scottish parliamentary election, 1999: Aberdeen North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Elaine Thomson	10,340	37.2	N/A
	Scottish National Party	Brian Adam	9,942	35.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	James Donaldson	4,767	17.1	N/A
	Conservative	Iain Haughie	2,772	10	N/A
Majority			398	1.4
Turnout			27,821