Aberdeen South (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Aberdeen South (UK Parliament constituency).

Aberdeen South
Former burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Aberdeen South shown within the North East Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Former constituency
Created	1999
Abolished	2011
Council area	Aberdeen City (part)

Aberdeen South was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it was one of nine constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elected seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

For the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, Aberdeen South was expanded into Aberdeenshire for the newly created constituency of Aberdeen South and North Kincardine

Electoral region

The other eight constituencies of the North East Scotland region wereAberdeen Central, Aberdeen North, Angus, Banff and Buchan, Dundee East, Dundee West, Gordon and West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

The region covers the Aberdeenshire council area, the Aberdeen City council area, the Dundee City council area, part of the Angus council area, a small part of the Moray council area and a small part of the Perth and Kinross council area.

Constituency boundaries

The Aberdeen South constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, the boundaries of the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency were subject to some alteration.

Council area

The Holyrood constituency was within the Aberdeen City council area, which was divided between three North East Scotland constituencies: Aberdeen South, Aberdeen Central and Aberdeen North. All three are entirely within the city area.

Boundary review

See Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions from 2011

Following their First Periodic review of parliamentary constituencies to the Scottish Parliament, the Boundary Commission for Scotland has created three newly shaped seats for the Aberdeen City council area. These seats, which were formed in time for the elections in 2011, wereAberdeen Central, Aberdeen Donside, and Aberdeen South and North Kincardine.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

	Member	Party
1999	Nicol Stephen	Liberal Democrat
2003
2007

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Aberdeen South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Nicol Stephen	10,843	36.3	-9.6
	SNP	Maureen Watt	8,111	27.1	+12.8
	Labour	Rami Okasha	5,499	18.4	-0.9
	Conservative	David Davidson	5,432	18.2	+0.8
Majority			2,731	9.1
Turnout			29,885	52.7	+1.0
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-11.2%

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Aberdeen South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Nicol Stephen	13,821	45.9	+13.3
	Labour	Richard Baker	5,805	19.3	-8.2
	Conservative	Ian Duncan	5,230	17.4	-2.8
	SNP	Maureen Watt	4,315	14.3	-4.8
	Scottish Socialist	Keith Farnsworth	953	3.2	N/A
Majority			8,016	26.6
Turnout			30,124	51.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+10.8

Scottish Parliament election, 1999: Aberdeen South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Nicol Stephen	11,300	32.6	N/A
	Labour	Mike Elrick	9,540	27.5	N/A
	Conservative	Nanette Milne	6,993	20.2	N/A
	SNP	Irene McGugan	6,651	19.2	N/A
	Socialist Workers	Scott Sutherland	206	0.6	N/A
Majority			1,760	6.1
Turnout			28,690
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Politics and history of the constituency

Electoral regions and Constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2011 » 2011– »

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton North and Bellshill Hamilton South Kilmarnock and Loudoun Motherwell and Wishaw

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Baillieston Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Govan Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Rutherglen Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Springburn

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber Moray Orkney Ross, Skye and Inverness West Shetland Western Isles

Lothians	Edinburgh Central Edinburgh East and Musselburgh Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh South Edinburgh West Linlithgow Livingston Midlothian

Mid Scotland and Fife	Central Fife Dunfermline East Dunfermline West Kirkcaldy North East Fife North Tayside Ochil Perth Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Angus Banff and Buchan Dundee East Dundee West Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

South of Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

West of Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley North Paisley South Strathkelvin and Bearsden West Renfrewshire

Preceded by Orkney	Constituency represented by the Deputy First Minister 2005 – 2007	Succeeded by Glasgow Govan

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