Dundee City East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dundee City East 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. Also, however, it is one 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.

Not to be confused with Dundee East (UK Parliament constituency).

Dundee City East
burgh constituency
for the Scottish Parliament
Current constituency
Created2011
PartyScottish National Party
MSPShona Robison
Council areaDundee City
Created fromDundee East

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

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, 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.

Constituency boundaries and council area

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.

Dundee City is represented by two constituencies in the Scottish Parliament: Dundee City East and Dundee City West.

From the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the redrawn and renamed Dundee City East constituency consists of the following electoral wards:

Member of the Scottish Parliament
ElectionMemberParty
2011 Shona Robison Scottish National Party
2016

Election results
2016 Scottish Parliament election: Dundee City East[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
SNP Shona Robison 16,509 58.1 -6.1
Labour Richard McCready 5,611 19.7 -3.1
Conservative Bill Bowman 4,969 17.5 +7.6
Liberal Democrats Craig Duncan 911 3.2 +0.1
TUSC Leah Ganley 437 1.5 New
Majority 10,898 38.4 -3.0
Turnout 28,437 51.5 +4.1
SNP hold Swing
2011 Scottish Parliament election: Dundee City East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
SNP Shona Robison 16,541 64.2 +15.1
Labour Mohammed Asif 5,862 22.8 -9.7
Conservative Brian Docherty 2,550 9.9 -1.5
Liberal Democrats Allan Petrie 800 3.1 -3.9
Majority 10,679 41.4 N/A
Turnout 25,753 47.4 N/A
SNP win (new seat)
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See also

References
  1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/scotland-constituencies/S16000098
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