Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (UK Parliament constituency)
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | |
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Former City of Edinburgh East Lothian | |
1997–2005 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Edinburgh East |
Replaced by | Edinburgh East East Lothian |
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh was a
first past the post
system of election.
In 1999, a
Scottish Parliament constituency
was created with the same name and boundaries and continued in use until 2011. See headnote above.
The constituency is to be re-established, as part of the
Boundary Commission for Scotland, replacing Edinburgh East once again, to be first contested at the next United Kingdom general election.[1]
Boundaries
Electoral divisions 27 (Meadowbank/Mountcastle), 28 (Links/Restalrig), 29 (Portobello/Milton), 38 (Craigmillar/Duddingston) in City of Edinburgh District; electoral division 44 (Musselburgh/Fisherrow) in East Lothian District.
The constituency covered an eastern portion of the
East Lothian council area
. It was one of six constituencies covering the City of Edinburgh area, and one of two covering the East Lothian area. The constituency was predominantly urban.
For the 2005 general election, most of the constituency was merged into the new Edinburgh East constituency. The rest of the constituency, the Musselburgh area, was merged into the East Lothian constituency.[2]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member [3] | Party | |
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1997 | Gavin Strang | Labour | |
2005 | constituency abolished - see Edinburgh East |
Election results
Elections in the 2020s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scottish Green | Amanda Grimm[4] | ||||
Labour | Chris Murray[5] | ||||
SNP | Tommy Sheppard[6] | ||||
Reform UK | Derek Winton[5] |
Elections of the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Gavin Strang | 18,124 | 52.6 | −1.0 | |
SNP | Rob Munn | 5,956 | 17.3 | −1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gary Peacock | 4,981 | 14.5 | +3.8 | |
Conservative | Peter Finnie | 3,906 | 11.3 | −4.1 | |
Scottish Socialist | Derek Durkin | 1,487 | 4.3 | New | |
Majority | 12,168 | 35.3 | +0.8 | ||
Turnout | 34,454 | 58.2 | −12.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections of the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Gavin Strang | 22,564 | 53.6 | ||
SNP | Derrick White | 8,034 | 19.1 | ||
Conservative | Kenneth F. Ward | 6,483 | 15.4 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Callum I. MacKellar | 4,511 | 10.7 | ||
Referendum | James A. Sibbet | 526 | 1.2 | ||
Majority | 14,530 | 34.5 | |||
Turnout | 42,118 | 70.6 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "2023 Review of UK Parliament Constituencies Boundary Commission for Scotland Final Recommendations laid before Parliament" (PDF). 28 June 2023.
- Boundary Commission for Scotland. Archived from the originalon 9 October 2007.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
- ^ "Amanda Grimm". Twitter. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ a b "Derek Winton". Twitter. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
- ^ https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/dont-write-off-snps-election-chances-tommy-sheppard-4360905
- ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.