Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (UK Parliament constituency)
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Scottish Borders |
Electorate | 73,191[1] |
Major settlements | Galashiels, Hawick |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2005 |
Member of Parliament | John Lamont (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, and Roxburgh and Berwickshire |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk is a
The constituency name comes from the three counties it covers; Berwickshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire.
A mostly rural constituency, it includes the towns of
Boundaries
As created by the Fifth Review of the
The Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency is predominantly rural, and incorporates the electoral wards of:
- In full: Hawick and Hermitage, Selkirkshire, Hawick and Denholm, Jedburgh and District, Kelso and District, Mid Berwickshire, East Berwickshire, Leaderdale and Melrose, Galashiels and District
- In part: Tweeddale East
2023 boundary review
In 2023 new constituency boundaries for the next general election were proposed by 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. The constituency remained unchanged.
History
At the 2017 snap election, Lamont (who contested the seat for the fourth consecutive election) won the seat from Calum Kerr of the SNP by 11,060 votes - polling more votes than any other candidate in Scotland, and making it the safest Conservative seat in Scotland.
Two years later, at the 2019 general election, held in the wake of parliamentary deadlock and Brexit negotiations, the Conservatives called another election and achieved their best national result since 1987, winning a comfortable majority of 80 seats at the election, with Lamont being re-elected as MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk. He held the seat with a reduced majority of 5,148 votes, due to a swing towards the SNP and Liberal Democrats.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
2005 | Michael Moore | Liberal Democrat | |
2015 | Calum Kerr | SNP | |
2017 | John Lamont | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2020s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Lamont[3] | ||||
Scottish Green | Neil MacKinnon[4] | ||||
SNP | David Wilson[5] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Swing |
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Lamont | 25,747 | 48.4 | -5.5 | |
SNP | Calum Kerr | 20,599 | 38.8 | +6.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jenny Marr | 4,287 | 8.1 | +3.4 | |
Labour
|
Ian Davidson | 2,513 | 4.7 | -3.9 | |
Majority | 5,148 | 9.6 | -11.5 | ||
Turnout | 53,146 | 71.3 | -0.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -5.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Lamont | 28,213 | 53.9 | +17.9 | |
SNP | Calum Kerr | 17,153 | 32.8 | -3.8 | |
Labour Co-op
|
Ian Davidson | 4,519 | 8.6 | +3.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Caroline Burgess | 2,482 | 4.7 | -14.0 | |
Majority | 11,060 | 21.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 52,367 | 71.5 | -2.7 | ||
Conservative gain from SNP | Swing | +10.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SNP | Calum Kerr[14] | 20,145 | 36.6 | +27.4 | |
Conservative | John Lamont[15] | 19,817 | 36.0 | +2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Michael Moore[15] | 10,294 | 18.7 | −26.7 | |
Labour | Kenryck Jones[16] | 2,700 | 4.9 | −5.3 | |
UKIP | Peter Neilson[16] | 1,316 | 2.4 | +1.2 | |
Scottish Green | Pauline Stewart[17] | 631 | 1.1 | New | |
Independent | Jesse Rae[16] | 135 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 328 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 55,038 | 74.2 | +7.8 | ||
SNP gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +27.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Michael Moore | 22,230 | 45.4 | +3.6 | |
Conservative | John Lamont | 16,555 | 33.8 | +5.0 | |
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 | New | |
Majority | 5,675 | 11.6 | -1.4 | ||
Turnout | 49,014 | 66.4 | +3.1 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | −0.7 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | 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 | -11.8 | ||
Turnout | 45,388 | 63.3 | |||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |
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