Dundee East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Created1999

Abolished2011

Dundee East
Former burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament

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

Dundee East 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 elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

From the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, Dundee East was redrawn and renamed Dundee City East.

From 1999 to 2011, the other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region were: Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen North, Aberdeen South, Angus, Banff and Buchan, Dundee West, Gordon and West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine.

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

Constituency boundaries

The Dundee East 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.

From the 2011 election, the redrawn and renamed Dundee City East constituency will consist of the following electoral wards;

In full: East End, The Ferry;
In part: Coldside, Maryfield, North East

Council area

The Holyrood constituency was within the Dundee City council area, which was divided between three North East Scotland constituencies. Dundee East and Dundee West were within the city area. The Angus constituency covered north-eastern and north-western areas of the city, as well as a southern portion of the Angus council area and a small eastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

	Member	Party
1999	John McAllion	Scottish Labour Party^[1]
2003	Shona Robison	Scottish National Party
2011	constituency abolished: replaced by Dundee City East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Shona Robison	13,314	49.6	+10.0
	Labour	Iain Luke	8,790	32.7	−6.5
	Conservative	Chris Bustin	2,976	11.1	−0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Clive Sneddon	1,789	6.7	+0.7
Majority			4,524	16.9	+16.5
Rejected ballots			913
Turnout			28,698	49.9	+2.8
	SNP hold		Swing	+16.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Shona Robison	10,428	39.6	+5.3
	Labour	John McAllion	10,338	39.2	−4.1
	Conservative	Edward Prince	3,133	11.9	−2.1
	Liberal Democrats	Clive Sneddon	1,584	6.0	−0.8
	Independent	James Gourlay	865	3.3	New
Majority			90	0.4	N/A
Turnout			26,348	47.1	−6.4
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John McAllion	13,703	43.28	*N/A*
	SNP	Shona Robison	10,849	34.26	N/A
	Conservative	Iain Mitchell	4,428	13.98	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Raymond Lawrie	2,153	6.80	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	Harvey Duke	530	1.67	N/A
Majority			2,854	9.02	N/A
Turnout			31,663	53.50	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

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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

Dundee East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Constituency boundaries

Council area

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election results

See also

References

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