Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk County constituency |
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| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk shown within Scotland | |
| Created: | 2005 |
| MP: | Michael Moore |
| Party: | Liberal Democrat |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Council areas: | Scottish Borders |
| EP constituency: | Scotland |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk was created as a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the general election of 2005.
The constituency covers the whole of the Scottish Borders council area, apart from the Tweeddale area. It is predominantly rural.
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[edit] Boundaries
This Scottish Borders constituency was enlarged to merge two fairly marginal constituencies. This predominantly rural seat brings Hawick, Galashiels, Duns, Jedburgh and Selkirk together in a merge where two-thirds of Roxburgh and Berwickshire was added to just over a third of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale.
The Tweedale, Ettrick and Lauderdale seat was itself a part of a radical boundary review, devised in the 1983 redistribution from David Steel's Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles seat, meaning this 2005 creation is a return of sorts to that constituency.
[edit] Members of Parliament
- Constituency created (2005)
- 2005 — present: Michael Moore, Liberal Democrat
[edit] Elections
| General Election 2005: Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Moore | 18,993 | 41.8 | -5.0 | |
| Conservative | John Lamont | 13,092 | 28.8 | +6.8 | |
| Labour | Sam Held | 7,206 | 15.9 | -1.0 | |
| Scottish National Party | Aileen Orr | 3,885 | 8.6 | -2.8 | |
| Liberal | John Hein | 916 | 2.0 | +1.6 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Graeme McIver | 695 | 1.5 | 0.0 | |
| UK Independence | Peter Neilson | 601 | 1.3 | +0.3 | |
| Majority | 5,901 | 13.0 | |||
| Turnout | 45,388 | 63.3 | +3.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | -5.9 | |||
