East Lothian (UK Parliament constituency)

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East Lothian County constituency
East Lothian shown within Scotland
Created:	1983
MP:	Anne Picking
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
Council areas:	East Lothian
EP constituency:	Scotland

East Lothian is a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Before the 1983 general election, the area lay in the Berwick and East Lothian constituency. See also East Lothian (council area) and East Lothian (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the whole of the East Lothian council area with Musselburgh added to the seat from Edinburgh East and Musselburgh.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1983)

Year		Member	Party
	1983	John Home Robertson	Labour
	2001	Anne Picking	Labour

[edit] Elections

General Election 2005: East Lothian
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Anne Picking	18983	41.5%	-7.4
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Butler	11363	24.8%	+7.6
	Conservative	William Stevenson	7315	16.0%	0.0
	Scottish National Party	Paul McLennan	5995	13.1%	-1.8
	Scottish Green	Michael Collie	1132	2.5%	+2.5
	Scottish Socialist	Gary Galbraith	504	1.1%	-1.1
	UK Independence	Eric Robb	306	0.7%	+0.7
	Christian Vote	William Thompson	178	0.4%	+0.4
Majority			7620	16.6%
Turnout			45776	64.5	+3.6
	Labour hold		Swing	-7.5

General Election 2001: East Lothian
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Anne Picking	17,407	47.2	-5.5
	Conservative	Hamish Mair	6,577	17.8	-2.1
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Hayman	6,506	17.6	+7.1
	Scottish National Party	Hilary Brown	5,381	14.6	-1.1
	Scottish Socialist	Derrick White	624	1.7	N/A
	Socialist Labour	James Herriot	376	1.0	N/A
Majority			10,830	29.4
Turnout			36,871	62.5	-13.0
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of UK Parliamentary constituencies in Scotland

UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland
Labour	Aberdeen North | Aberdeen South | Airdrie and Shotts | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Central Ayrshire | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Dumfries and Galloway | Dundee West | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | East Lothian | East Renfrewshire | Edinburgh East | Edinburgh North and Leith | Edinburgh South | Edinburgh South West | Falkirk | Glasgow Central | Glasgow East | Glasgow North | Glasgow North West | Glasgow South | Glasgow South West | Glenrothes | Inverclyde | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Lanark and Hamilton East | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Livingston | Midlothian | Motherwell and Wishaw | North Ayrshire and Arran | Ochil and South Perthshire | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Stirling | West Dunbartonshire
Liberal Democrat	Argyll and Bute | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | Dunfermline and West Fife | East Dunbartonshire | Edinburgh West | Gordon | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | North East Fife | Orkney and Shetland | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
SNP	Angus | Banff and Buchan | Dundee East | Moray | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | Perth and North Perthshire
Conservative and Unionist	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Speaker	Glasgow North East
Scotland European constituency: Labour (2) | SNP (2) | Conservative and Unionist (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)