| Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| 1983–2005 | |
| Replaced by | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Created from | Galloway |
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale was a county constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election (partly replacing the former Galloway constituency), and abolished for the 2005 general election, when it was replaced by Dumfries and Galloway.
The seat was notable in being the only division in all of Scotland won by the Conservative Party at the 2001 General Election, and was one of very few seats that changed hands in that election.
| Election | Member [1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Ian Lang | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Alasdair Morgan | SNP | |
| 2001 | Peter Duncan | Conservative | |
| 2005 | constituency abolished | ||
| General Election 2001: Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Peter Duncan | 12,222 | 34.0 | +3.5 | |
| SNP | Malcolm Fleming | 12,148 | 33.8 | −10.1 | |
| Labour | Thomas Sloan | 7,258 | 20.2 | +3.9 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Neil Wallace | 3,698 | 10.3 | +3.9 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Andy Harvey | 588 | 1.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 74 | 0.2 | |||
| Turnout | 35,914 | 67.4 | −12.2 | ||
| Conservative gain from SNP | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| SNP | Alasdair Morgan | 18,449 | 43.9 | ||
| Conservative | Ian Lang | 12,825 | 30.5 | ||
| Labour | Katy Clark | 6,861 | 16.3 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | J. McKerchar | 2,700 | 6.4 | ||
| Independent | R. Wood | 566 | 1.4 | ||
| Referendum Party | A. Kennedy | 428 | 1.0 | ||
| UKIP | J. Smith | 189 | 0.4 | ||
| Majority | 5,624 | 13.4 | |||
| Turnout | 78.9 | ||||
| SNP gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1992: Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Ian Lang | 18,681 | 42.0 | ||
| SNP | M. Brown | 16,213 | 36.5 | ||
| Labour | J. Dowson | 5,766 | 13.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | J. McKerchar | 3,826 | 8.6 | ||
| Majority | 2,468 | 5.6 | |||
| Turnout | 81.7 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||