Dundee City East
Region or constituency of the Scottish Parliament
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Dundee City East (Gaelic: Baile Dhùn Dè an Ear) is a burgh constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the Dundee City council area.[2] It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it is also one of ten constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.[3]
| Dundee City East | |
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| Burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
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 Dundee City East shown within the North East Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Electoral region | North East Scotland |
| Electorate | 57,098 (2026)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2011 |
| Party | Scottish National Party |
| MSP | Stephen Gethins |
| Council area | Dundee City council area |
| Created from | Dundee East |
The constituency was created for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, and largely replaced the previous seat of Dundee East. It has been held by Stephen Gethins of the Scottish National Party since the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.
Electoral region
The other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region are: Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen Donside, Aberdeen Deeside and North Kincardine, Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns, Angus South, Banffshire and Buchan Coast and Dundee City West. The region covers all of the Aberdeen City council area, the Aberdeenshire council area, the Angus council area, the Dundee City council area and part of the Moray council area.[4]
Constituency boundaries and council area
The Dundee City council area is represented by two constituencies in the Scottish Parliament: Dundee City East and Dundee City West.[2]
A Dundee East constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, for the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, using the name and boundaries of the existing Dundee East constituency of the UK Parliament. Ahead of the 2005 United Kingdom general election the boundaries used for elections to the UK Parliament were subject to some alteration, whilst being retained for elections to the Scottish Parliament. There is now no longer any link between the two sets of constituencies. New Scottish Parliament boundaries were introduced for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, with Dundee East being renamed Dundee City East, with borders redrawn slightly to exclude the 'Hebrides' neighbourhood at Claverhouse just west of the A90 road and include new housing developments north of the A92 road near Barnhill.[5][6][7] The seat was unaffected by the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries, remaining unchanged for the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.[8] The constituency comprises the following wards of Dundee City Council:[2]
- In full: East End, The Ferry
- In part: Coldside, Maryfield, North East (all shared with Dundee City West)
Member of the Scottish Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | |
| 2026 | Stephen Gethins | Scottish National Party | |
Election results
2020s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Stephen Gethins | 12,969 | 48.8 |  10.4 |
9,342 | 35.1 | 15.3 | |
| Labour Co-op | Cheryl-Ann Cruickshank[a] | 4,792 | 18.0 | 0.1 |
4,171 | 15.7 | 0.3 | |
| Reform | Mark Simpson[b] | 4,135 | 15.6 | New | 4,125 | 15.5 |  15.3 | |
| Green | 3,791 | 14.2 | 7.2 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Tanvir Ahmad | 2,086 | 7.9 | 3.5 |
1,734 | 6.5 | 3.2 | |
| Conservative | Jack Cruickshanks | 1,999 | 7.5 | 9.8 |
2,139 | 8.0 | 9.5 | |
| TUSC | Donald MacLeod | 361 | 1.4 | New | ||||
| Independent Green Voice | 306 | 1.2 | 0.4 | |||||
| ISP | 230 | 0.9 | New | |||||
| Scottish Family | 211 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |||||
| AtLS | 210 | 0.8 | New | |||||
| Workers Party | Peter Ashby | 209 | 0.8 | New | 107 | 0.4 | New | |
| Scottish Socialist | 122 | 0.5 | New | |||||
| Independent | Marie Boulton | 53 | 0.2 | New | ||||
| Advance UK | 44 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Independent | Iris Leask | 20 | 0.1 | New | ||||
| Majority | 8,177 | 30.8 | 10.3 |
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| Valid votes | 26,551 | 26,605 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 138 | 109 | ||||||
| Turnout | 26,689 | 46.7 | 11.9 |
26,714 | 46.8 | 11.8 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | |||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Shona Robison[a] | 19,230 | 59.2 | 1.1 |
16,403 | 50.4 | 2.8 | |
| Labour | Owen Wright | 5,893 | 18.1 | 1.6 |
5,201 | 16.0 | 1.9 | |
| Conservative | Philip Scott | 5,630 | 17.3 | 0.2 |
5,699 | 17.5 | 0.4 | |
| Green | 2,267 | 7.0 | 1.8 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Crichton | 1,431 | 4.4 | 1.2 |
1,067 | 3.3 | 0.8 | |
| Alba | 810 | 2.5 | New | |||||
| TUSC | Wayne Scott | 287 | 0.9 | 0.6 |
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| All for Unity | 261 | 0.8 | New | |||||
| Independent Green Voice | 246 | 0.8 | New | |||||
| Scottish Family | 193 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| Freedom Alliance (UK) | 83 | 0.3 | New | |||||
| Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 81 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Reform | 63 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 49 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||
| UKIP | 44 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |||||
| Restore Scotland | 36 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| Independent | Laura Marshall | 29 | 0.1 | New | ||||
| Independent | Geoffrey Farquharson | 15 | 0.0 | New | ||||
| Renew | 5 | 0.0 | New | |||||
| Majority | 13,337 | 41.1 | 2.8 |
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| Valid votes | 32,471 | 32,552 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 155 | 62 | ||||||
| Turnout | 32,626 | 58.6 | 6.9 |
32,614 | 58.6 | 6.9 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | |||||||
2010s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Shona Robison[a] | 16,509 | 58.1 | 6.1 |
15,159 | 53.2 | 3.2 | |
| Labour | Richard McCready | 5,611 | 19.7 | 3.1 |
5,109 | 17.9 | 4.2 | |
| Conservative | Bill Bowman | 4,969 | 17.5 | 7.6 |
5,095 | 17.9 | 7.5 | |
| Green | 1,475 | 5.2 | 2.2 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Craig Duncan | 911 | 3.2 | 0.1 |
691 | 2.5 | 0.2 | |
| UKIP | 471 | 1.7 | 1.0 | |||||
| TUSC | Leah Ganley | 437 | 1.5 | New | ||||
| Solidarity | 152 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |||||
| Scottish Christian | 137 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |||||
| RISE | 77 | 0.3 | New | |||||
| National Front | 64 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||||
| Communist | 50 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 23 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| Majority | 10,898 | 38.4 | 3.0 |
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| Valid votes | 28,437 | 28,503 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 108 | 63 | ||||||
| Turnout | 28,545 | 51.7 | 4.1 |
28,566 | 51.7 | 4.5 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | 4.6 |
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| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Region | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Shona Robison[a] | 16,541 | 64.2 | N/A | 14,418 | 56.4 | N/A | |
| Labour | Mohammed Asif | 5,862 | 22.8 | N/A | 5,643 | 22.1 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Brian Docherty | 2,550 | 9.9 | N/A | 2,664 | 10.4 | N/A | |
| Green | 763 | 3.0 | N/A | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Allan Petrie | 800 | 3.1 | N/A | 593 | 2.3 | N/A | |
| All-Scotland Pensioners Party | 524 | 2.0 | N/A | |||||
| BNP | 207 | 0.8 | N/A | |||||
| UKIP | 191 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Christian | 179 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 153 | 0.6 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 127 | 0.5 | N/A | |||||
| Solidarity | 54 | 0.2 | N/A | |||||
| Angus Independents | 8 | 0.0 | N/A | |||||
| National Front | 1 | 0.0 | N/A | |||||
| Others | 57 | 0.2 | N/A | |||||
| Majority | 10,679 | 41.4 | N/A | |||||
| Valid votes | 25,753 | 25,582 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 139 | 118 | ||||||
| Turnout | 25,892 | 47.6 | N/A | 25,700 | 47.2 | N/A | ||
| SNP win (new seat) | ||||||||
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