Almond Valley (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Almond Valley
county constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Almond Valley shown within the Lothian electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	Angela Constance
Council area	West Lothian

Almond Valley is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, it is one of nine constituencies in the Lothian electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

The constituency was formed in 2011, comprising much of the old Livingston constituency.

Electoral region

The other eight constituencies of the Lothian region are Edinburgh Central, Edinburgh Eastern, Edinburgh Northern and Leith, Edinburgh Pentlands, Edinburgh Southern, Edinburgh Western, Linlithgow and Midlothian North and Musselburgh

The region includes all of the City of Edinburgh council area, parts of the East Lothian council area, parts of the Midlothian council area and all of the West Lothian council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area

The West Lothian council area is represented by two constituencies in the Scottish Parliament, these are Almond Valley and Linlithgow.

The new seat of Almond Valley replaces Livingston. The electoral wards used in its creation are:

In full: Livingston North; Livingston South; East Livingston and East Calder; Fauldhouse and the Breich Valley
In part: Whitburn and Blackburn (shared with Linlithgow)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

As Livingston

	Member	Party
1999	Bristow Muldoon	Labour
2003	Bristow Muldoon	Labour
2007	Angela Constance	Scottish National Party

As Almond Valley

Election		Member	Party
	2011	Angela Constance	Scottish National Party
	2016	Angela Constance	Scottish National Party

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Almond Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Angela Constance	18,475	53.0	-1.3
	Labour	Neil Findlay	10,082	28.9	-7.4
	Conservative	Stephanie Smith	5,308	15.2	+9.1
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Dundas	1,007	2.9	+0.8
Majority			8,393	24.1	+6.1
Turnout			34,872	53.7	+2.6
	SNP hold		Swing

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Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Almond Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Angela Constance	16,704	54.3	+14.6
	Labour	Laurence Fitzpatrick	11,162	36.3	-3.4
	Conservative	Andrew Hardie	1,886	6.1	-2.0
	Liberal Democrats	Emma Sykes	656	2.1	-4.2
	National Front	Neil McIvor	329	1.1	N/A
Majority			5,542	18.0
Turnout			30,737	51.1
	SNP hold		Swing	+9.0

Liberal Democrats and National Front both gained under 5% of the poll and thus lost their deposit

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Almond Valley
Party		Votes	%
	SNP	11,616	39.7
	Labour	11,612	39.7
	Conservative	2,359	8.1
	Liberal Democrats	1,844	6.3
	Others	1,821	6.2
Majority		4	0.0
	SNP hold	Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Livingston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Angela Constance	13,159	39.6	+8.0
	Labour	Bristow Muldoon	12,289	37.0	-6.6
	Action to Save St John's Hospital	Ernie Walker	2,814	8.5	+8.5
	Conservative	David Brown	2,804	8.4	-0.9
	Liberal Democrats	Evan Bell	2,158	6.5	-2.4
Majority			870	2.6
Turnout			33,224	50.0	+3.3
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing

Scottish Parliament Election 2003: Livingston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Bristow Muldoon	13,327	43.6	-3.7
	SNP	Peter Johnston	9,657	31.6	-5.1
	Conservative	Lindsay Paterson	2,848	9.3	+1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Paul McGreal	2,714	8.9	+1.1
	Scottish Socialist	Robert Richard	1,640	5.4	+5.4
	Scottish People's	Stephen Milburn	371	1.2	+1.2
Majority			3,670	12.0
Turnout			30,557	46.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.7

Scottish Parliament Election 1999: Livingston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Bristow Muldoon	17,313	47.34	N/A
	SNP	Greg McCarra	13,409	36.67	N/A
	Conservative	Douglas Younger	3,014	8.24	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Oliver	2,834	7.75	N/A
Majority			3,904	10.67
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

References

↑ Statement of Persons Nominated West Lothian Council

« 1999–2011 « Electoral regions and constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 2011–

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