Aberdeen South (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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**Aberdeen South**
Scottish Parliament burgh constituency

Aberdeen South shown within the North East Scotland electoral region
Created:	1999
MSP:	Nicol Stephen
Party:	Liberal Democrats
Council area:	Aberdeen City (part)

Aberdeen South 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 North, 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 Central 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 some alteration.

[edit] Council area

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

[edit] Member of the Scottish Parliament

Liberal Democrat Nicol Stephen has been the MSP since the constituency was created, elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2003. He became, also, Deputy First Minister and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, in the Scottish Executive, in June 2005.

[edit] Election results

Scottish parliamentary election, 2003: Aberdeen South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Nicol Stephen	13,821	45.9	+13.3
	Labour	Richard Baker	5,805	19.3	-8.2
	Conservative	Ian Duncan	5,230	17.4	-2.8
	Scottish National Party	Maureen Watt	4,315	14.3	-4.8
	Scottish Socialist	Keith Farnsworth	953	3.2	+3.2
Majority			8,016	26.6
Turnout			30,124	51.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Scottish parliamentary election, 1999: Aberdeen South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Nicol Stephen	11,300	32.6	N/A
	Labour	Mike Elrick	9,540	27.5	N/A
	Conservative	Nanette Milne	6,993	20.2	N/A
	Scottish National Party	Irene McGugan	6,651	19.2	N/A
	Socialist Workers	Scott Sutherland	206	0.6	N/A
Majority			1,760	6.1
Turnout			28,690
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing