Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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**Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley**
Scottish Parliament county constituency

Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley shown within the South of Scotland electoral region
Created:	1999
MSP:	Cathy Jamieson
Party:	Labour
Council areas:	South Ayrshire (part) East Ayrshire (part)

Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the South of 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 and council areas
3 Member of the Scottish Parliament
4 Election results
5 Footnotes

[edit] Electoral region

The other eight constituencies of the South of Scotland region are Ayr, Clydesdale, Cunninghame South, Dumfries, East Lothian, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Roxburgh and Berwickshire and Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale.

The region covers the Dumfries and Galloway council area, the Scottish Borders council area, the South Ayrshire council area, part of the East Ayrshire council area, part of the East Lothian council area, part of the Midlothian council area, part of the North Ayrshire council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council area.

[edit] Constituency boundaries and council areas

The Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley 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, Scottish Westminster (House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies^[1].

The Holyrood constituency covers a southern portion of the South Ayrshire council area and a southern portion of the East Ayrshire council area. The rest of the South Ayrshire area is covered by the Ayr constituency. The rest of the East Ayrshire area is covered by the Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency, which is in the Central Scotland electoral region.