Moray (Scottish Parliament constituency)
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| Moray shown within the Highlands and Islands electoral region |
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| Created: | 1999 |
| MSP: | Richard Lochhead |
| Party: | Scottish National Party |
| Council area: | Moray (part) |
Moray 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 eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to eight constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
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[edit] Electoral region
The other seven constituencies of the Highlands and Islands electoral region are Argyll and Bute, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Orkney, Ross, Skye and Inverness West, Shetland and the Western Isles.
The region covers most of Argyll and Bute council area, all of the Highland council area, most of the Moray council area, all of the Orkney council area, all of the Shetland council area and all of Na h-Eileanan Siar.
[edit] Constituency boundaries
The Moray 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 Westminster (House of Commons) constituency was enlarged slightly.
[edit] Council area
The Holyrood constituency covers most of the Moray council area. The rest of the council area is covered by the Gordon constituency, which is in the North East Scotland electoral region. The Moray Westminster constituency has covered the whole of the council area since 2005.
[edit] Member of the Scottish Parliament
The constituency was represented by Scottish National Party MSP Margaret Ewing from 1999 until her death on 21 March 2006. The seat was held for the SNP by Richard Lochhead in a by-election which took place on 27 April 2006.
[edit] Election results
| Moray By-election 2006 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Scottish National Party | Richard Lochhead | 12,653 | 46.15 | +3.95 | |
| Conservative | Mary Scanlon | 6,268 | 22.86 | +0.35 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Linda Gorn | 5,310 | 19.37 | +7.20 | |
| Labour | Sandy Keith | 2,696 | 9.83 | -9.28 | |
| NHSFirst Party | Melville Brown | 493 | 1.80 | N/A | |
| Majority | 6385 | 23.3 | +3.6 | ||
| Turnout | 27,420 | 45.5 | -0.8 | ||
| Scottish National Party hold | Swing | +1.8 | |||
| Scottish Parliament Election 2003: Moray | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Scottish National Party | Margaret Ewing | 11,384 | 42.19% | +4.40% | |
| Conservative | Tim Wood | 6,072 | 22.50% | -3.09% | |
| Labour | Peter Peacock | 5,157 | 19.11% | -7.03% | |
| Liberal Democrats | Linda Gorn | 3,283 | 12.16% | +3.06% | |
| Scottish Socialist | Norma Anderson | 1,015 | +4.02% | +4.02% | |
| Majority | 5,312 | 19.69% | |||
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| Scottish National Party hold | Swing | ||||
| Scottish Parliament Election 1999: Moray | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Scottish National Party | Margaret Ewing | 13,027 | 38.79% | n/a | |
| Labour | Ali Farquharson | 8,898 | 26.50% | n/a | |
| Conservative | Andrew Findlay | 5,895 | 25.59% | n/a | |
| Liberal Democrats | Patsy Kenton | 3,056 | 9.10% | n/a | |
| Majority | 4,129 | 12.30% | n/a | ||
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| Scottish National Party hold | Swing | ||||
