Dumfriesshire (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dumfriesshire
constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Dumfriesshire shown within the South Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Conservative
MSP	Oliver Mundell
Council area	Dumfries and Galloway
Created from	Dumfries, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale

Not to be confused with Dumfriesshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency).

Dumfriesshire 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. It is also one of nine constituencies in the South of Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

For the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the constituency of Dumfries was abolished, with the constituency being divided between two new constituencies; Dumfriesshire and Galloway and West Dumfries.

Electoral region

The other eight constituencies of the South Scotland region are Ayr, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Clydesdale, East Lothian, Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Galloway and West Dumfries, Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley and Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale.

The region covers the Dumfries and Galloway council area, part of the East Ayrshire council area, part of the East Lothian council area, part of the Midlothian council area, the Scottish Borders council area, the South Ayrshire council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area

Wards of the Dumfriesshire Scottish Parliament constituency as of 2011.

Dumfries and Galloway is represented in the Scottish Parliament by two constituencies: Dumfriesshire and Galloway and West Dumfries.

The electoral wards in the Dumfriesshire constituency are:

Mid and Upper Nithsdale, Lochar, Nith, Annandale South, Annandale North, Annandale East and Eskdale

Member of the Scottish Parliament

As Dumfries

	Member	Party
1999	Elaine Murray	Scottish Labour Party
2003
2007

As Dumfriesshire

Election		Member	Party
	2011	Elaine Murray	Scottish Labour Party
	2016	Oliver Mundell	Scottish Conservative Party

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Dumfriesshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Oliver Mundell	13,536	37.3	+7.6
	SNP	Joan McAlpine	12,306	33.9	+7.6
	Labour	Elaine Murray	9,151	25.2	-14.3
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Brodie	1,267	3.5	-0.9
Majority			1,230	3.4	-6.5
Turnout			36,260	59.7	+6.1
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+11.0

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Dumfriesshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Elaine Murray	12,624	39.6	+4.7
	Conservative	Gill Dykes	9,468	29.7	-7.3
	SNP	Aileen Orr	8,384	26.3	+6.6
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Brodie	1,419	4.4	-3.9
Majority			3,156	9.9
Rejected ballots			112		{{{change}}}
Turnout			32,007	53.6
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	5.2

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Dumfriesshire
Party		Votes	%
	Conservative	11,499	37.0
	Labour	10,850	34.9
	SNP	6,107	19.6
	Liberal Democrats	2,604	8.4
	Others	50	0.2
Majority		649	2.1
	Conservative hold	Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Dumfries
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Elaine Murray	13,707	41.0	+1.0
	Conservative	Murray Tosh	10,860	32.5	-4.1
	SNP	Michael Russell	6,306	18.9	+6.7
	Liberal Democrats	Lynne Hume	2,538	7.6	+0.1
Majority			2,839	8.5
Rejected ballots			1006		{{{change}}}
Turnout			33,419	53.5	+1.3
	Labour hold		Swing	2.6

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Dumfries
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Elaine Murray	12,834	39.97	+3.2
	Conservative	David Mundell	11,738	36.56	+9.3
	SNP	Andrew Wood	3,931	12.24	-7.6
	Liberal Democrats	Clare Humblen	2394	7.46	-8.7
	Scottish Socialist	John Dennis	1213	3.78	n/a
Majority			1,096	3.41	-6.11
Turnout			32,110
	Labour hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 1999: Dumfries
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Elaine Murray	14,101	36.74	n/a
	Conservative	David Mundell	10,447	27.22	n/a
	SNP	James Donaldson	7,625	19.87	n/a
	Liberal Democrats	Iain Haughie	6,209	16.18	n/a
Majority			3,654		n/a
Turnout			38,382		n/a

Footnotes

http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=9477

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South of Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

West of Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley North Paisley South Strathkelvin and Bearsden West Renfrewshire

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