Angus (UK Parliament constituency)

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Angus
County constituency
Angus shown within Scotland
Created: 1997
MP: Michael Weir
Party: Scottish National Party
Type: House of Commons
Council areas: Angus
EP constituency: Scotland

Angus is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It was created for the 1997 general election, largely replacing East Angus. It is now a marginal seat between the Scottish National Party and the Conservatives. As a result of boundary changes for the 2005 general election, boundaries are now quite different from those of the Angus Scottish Parliament constituency, which was created in 1999.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the Angus council area, minus an area round the Dundee City council area, which is divided between the Dundee East and Dundee West constituencies.

Until the 2005 general election, it covered the south-east of the Angus council area, north-eastern and north-western areas of the Dundee City council area, and a small eastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area. The north-west of the Angus council area was within the North Tayside constituency.

Scottish Parliament constituencies retain the older boundaries.

Major towns in the House of Commons constituency are Arbroath, Brechin, Forfar and Montrose.

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[edit] Election results

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [1] [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Alberto Costa
Scottish National Party Michael Weir
General Election 2005: Angus
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Scottish National Party Michael Weir 12,840 33.7 +0.5
Conservative Sandy Bushby 11,239 29.5 −2.1
Labour Douglas Bradley 6,850 18.0 −0.3
Liberal Democrat Rev Scott Rennie 6,660 17.5 +2.7
Scottish Socialist Alan Manley 556 1.5 −0.4
Majority 1,601 4.2
Turnout 38,145 60.5 +6.4
Scottish National Party hold Swing +1.3
General Election 2001: Angus
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Scottish National Party Michael Weir 12,347 35.3 −13.0
Conservative Marcus Booth 8,736 25.0 +0.4
Labour Ian McFatridge 8,183 23.4 +7.8
Liberal Democrat Peter Nield 5,015 14.3 +4.9
Scottish Socialist Bruce Wallace 732 2.1 N/A
Majority 3,611 10.3
Turnout 35,013 59.3 −12.8
Scottish National Party hold Swing

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