Edinburgh East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Edinburgh East
Burgh constituency
Edinburgh East shown within Scotland
Created: 2005
MP: Gavin Strang
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
Council areas: City of Edinburgh
EP constituency: Scotland

Edinburgh East is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

In its present form the constituency was first used in the 2005 general election, but there was also an Edinburgh East constituency from 1885 to 1997.

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[edit] Boundaries

Edinburgh East is now one of five constituencies covering the City of Edinburgh council area. All are entirely within the city council area. Prior to the 2005 general election, the city area was covered by six constituencies, with one straddling a boundary with another council area.

In 1918 the constituency consisted of the "Burgh of Musselburgh and the Canongate and Portobello Municipal Wards of Edinburgh."

The Edinburgh East constituency, as defined in 2005, consists of areas formerly within the constituencies of Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Edinburgh Central and Edinburgh South.[1] It is largely a repacement for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh. Scottish Parliament constituencies retain the names and boundaries of the older Westminster constituencies.

As implied by the name, Edinburgh East covers an eastern portion of the City of Edinburgh. In terms of wards used in elections to the City of Edinburgh Council, 1999 to 2007, it includes the wards of Craigmillar, Duddingston, Holyrood, Leith Links, Meadowbank, Milton, Mountcastle, Portobello, Prestonfield, Restalrig, Southside and Tollcross. The wards are due to be replaced with new wards in 2007, as a consequence of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004.

The consituency is predominantly urban.

The constituency of the 1885 to 1997 period was created when the Edinburgh consituency was abolished, in favour of four new consituencies: Edinburgh East, Edinburgh Central, Edinburgh South and Edinburgh West. Edinburgh Central was abolished in 2005. The South and West constituencies continue in use, with altered boundaries.

[edit] Member of Parliament

[edit] 1885 to 1997

[edit] 2005 to present

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Edinburgh East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gavin Strang 15,899 40.0% -9.7
Liberal Democrats Gordon Mackenzie 9,697 24.4% +7.2
Scottish National Party Stefan Tymkewycz 6,760 17.0% +0.6
Conservative Mev Brown 4,093 10.3% -0.8
Scottish Green Cara Gillespie 2,266 5.7% +5.7
Scottish Socialist Catriona Grant 868 2.2% -1.8
Death, Dungeons and Taxes Party Brett Harris 89 0.2% +0.2
Communist League Peter Clifford 37 0.1% +0.1
Majority 6,202 15.6%
Turnout 39,709 61.3 +8.5
Labour hold Swing -8.4
General Election 2001: Edinburgh East & Musselburgh
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gavin Strang 18,124 52.6 -1.0
Scottish National Party Rob Munn 5,956 17.3 -1.8
Liberal Democrats Gary Peacock 4,981 14.5 +3.7
Conservative Peter Finnie 3,906 11.3 -4.1
Scottish Socialist Derek Durkin 1,487 4.3 N/A
Majority 12,168 35.3
Turnout 34,454 58.2 -12.5
Labour hold Swing


General Election 1935: Edinburgh East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rt Hon Frederick Pethick-Lawrence 13,341
Conservative Minna G Cowan OBE 12,229
Liberal David Marshall Mason 5,313


General Election 1931: Edinburgh East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal David Marshall Mason 17,372
Labour Dr Drummond Shiels MC 10,244
Scottish National Party Rev T.T. Alexander 2,872


General Election 1906: Edinburgh East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal George McCrae 6,606
Conservative Rankin Dawson 2,432

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Fifth Periodical Review, Boundary Commission for Scotland

[edit] See also


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 (2) | Liberal Democrats (1)
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