Banffshire and Buchan Coast (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Banffshire and Buchan Coast is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is one also of ten constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Banffshire and Buchan Coast
county constituency
for the Scottish Parliament
Banffshire and Buchan Coast shown within the North East Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created2011
PartyScottish National Party
MSPStewart Stevenson
Council areaAberdeenshire
Moray
Created fromBanff and Buchan,
Moray

Electoral region
See also: North East Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

The other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region are Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen Donside, Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns, Angus South, Dundee City East 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.

Constituency boundaries and council area

Aberdeenshire is represented by four constituencies in the Scottish Parliament: Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns and Banffshire and Buchan Coast. The rest of Moray is represented by the Moray constituency.

Following the First Periodic review of constituencies for the Scottish Parliament, Banff and Buchan became the newly drawn seat of Banffshire and Buchan Coast at the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

The electoral wards used in the creation of Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency are:

Member of the Scottish Parliament
ElectionMemberParty
2011 Stewart Stevenson Scottish National Party
2016

Election results
2016 Scottish Parliament election: Banffshire and Buchan Coast[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
SNP Stewart Stevenson 15,802 55.1 -12.1
Conservative Peter Chapman 9,219 32.1 +13.7
Labour Nathan Morrison 2,372 8.3 -2.3
Liberal Democrats David Evans 1,290 4.5 +0.7
Majority 6,683 23.0 -25.8
Turnout 28,822 48.5 +2.4
SNP hold Swing -13.0

[2]

2011 Scottish Parliament election: Banffshire and Buchan Coast
Party Candidate Votes % ±
SNP Stewart Stevenson 16,812 67.2 +8.6
Conservative Michael Watt 4,592 18.4 -1.1
Labour Alan Duffill 2,642 10.6 -1.7
Liberal Democrats Galen Milne 958 3.8 -5.7
Majority 12,220 48.8 N/A
Turnout 25,004 46.1 N/A
SNP win (new seat)
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See also

References
  1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/scotland-constituencies/S16000085
  2. Statement of Persons Nominated Archived 2012-03-16 at the Wayback Machine Aberdeenshire Council
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