| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk County constituency |
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| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk shown within Scotland | |
| Created: | 2005 |
| MP: | Michael Moore |
| Party: | Liberal Democrat |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Council areas: | Scottish Borders |
| EP constituency: | Scotland |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk is a constituency of the British House of Commons, located in the south of Scotland within the Scottish Borders council area. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years using the First-past-the-post system of voting.
Currently, the seat is held by the Liberal Democrat Michael Moore, currently the Secretary of State for Scotland. Moore has held the seat since its creation in 2005, and was MP for the predecessor seat of Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale from 1997-2005. The seat and its predecessor seats have had a strong Liberal presence since the 1960s, with former Liberal leader David Steel having represented the seat from 1965 to 1997. The Conservative Party are the main challengers to the seat, and they hold the equivalent Holyrood seat. The seat is notable for producing the lowest percentage vote share for Labour in Scotland at the 2010 general election.
A mostly rural seat, it includes the towns of Eyemouth, Hawick, Galashiels, Duns, Jedburgh and Selkirk.
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As created by the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland the constituency is one of six covering the Dumfries and Galloway council area, the Scottish Borders council area and the South Lanarkshire council area. The other five constituencies are: Dumfries and Galloway, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow, Lanark and Hamilton East and Rutherglen and Hamilton West.
The Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency covers part of the Scottish Borders council area. The rest of the council area is covered by the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency, which also covers part of the Dumfries and Galloway council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council area.
The Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency is predominantly rural, and includes the towns of Eyemouth, Hawick, Galashiels, Duns, Jedburgh and Selkirk.
| Election | Member [1] | Party | |
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| 2005 | Michael Moore | Liberal Democrat | |
| General Election 2010: Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk [2] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Michael Moore | 22,230 | 45.4 | +3.5 | |
| Conservative | John Lamont | 16,555 | 33.8 | +4.9 | |
| Labour | Ian Miller | 5,003 | 10.2 | -5.7 | |
| SNP | Paul Wheelhouse | 4,497 | 9.2 | +0.6 | |
| UKIP | Sherry Fowler | 595 | 1.2 | -0.1 | |
| Scottish Jacobite | Chris Black | 134 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
| Majority | 5,675 | 11.6 | |||
| Turnout | 49,014 | 66.4 | +2.3 | ||
| Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | -0.7 | |||
| General Election 2005: Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Michael Moore | 18,993 | 41.8 | -5.0 | |
| Conservative | John Lamont | 13,092 | 28.8 | +6.8 | |
| Labour | Sam Held | 7,206 | 15.9 | -1.0 | |
| SNP | Aileen Orr | 3,885 | 8.6 | -2.8 | |
| Liberal | John Hein | 916 | 2.0 | +1.6 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Graeme McIver | 695 | 1.5 | 0.0 | |
| UKIP | Peter Neilson | 601 | 1.3 | +0.3 | |
| Majority | 5,901 | 13.0 | |||
| Turnout | 45,388 | 63.3 | +3.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | -5.9 | |||
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