Perth and Kinross (UK Parliament constituency)

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Perth and Kinross County constituency
Created:	1983
Abolished:	1997
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	One

Perth and Kinross was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.

[edit] Boundaries

The Perth and Kinross constituency was largely a replacement for the Perth and East Perthshire constituency.^{[citation needed]} As first used in the 1983 general election, it covered part of the region of Tayside, which had been created in 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, as a region of three districts, including the district of Perth and Kinross. In 1997 the Perth and Kinross constituency was largely replaced by the Perth constituency.^{[citation needed]}

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1983	Sir Nicholas Hardwick Fairbairn	Conservative & Unionist	died 1995
	1995	Roseanna Cunningham	Scottish National Party	subsequently MP for Perth
1997		constituency abolished: see Perth

[edit] Election results

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