Dundee East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dundee East
Former burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament
Dundee East shown within the North East Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Former constituency
Created	1999
Abolished	2011
Council area	Dundee City (part)
Replaced by	Dundee City East

Dundee East was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it was one of nine constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects sevenadditional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

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

Electoral region

See also North East Scotland Scottish Parliament region

From 1999–2011, the other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region were Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen North, Aberdeen South, Angus, Banff and Buchan, Dundee West, Gordon and West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine.

The region covers the Aberdeenshire council area, the Aberdeen City council area, the Dundee City council area, part of the Angus council area, a small part of the Moray council area and a small part of the Perth and Kinross council area.

Constituency boundaries

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.

From the 2011 election, the redrawn and renamed Dundee City East constituency will consist of the following electoral wards;

• In full: East End, The Ferry;
• In part: Coldside; Maryfield; North East

Council area

The Holyrood constituency is within the Dundee City council area, which is divided between three North East Scotland constituencies. Dundee East and Dundee West are within the city area. The Angus constituency covers north-eastern and north-western areas of the city, as well as a southern portion of the Angus council area and a small eastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member		Party	Took office	Left office
	Shona Robison	SNP	2003	2011
	John McAllion	Labour	1999	2003
	2011	constituency abolished: see Dundee City East

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Dundee East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Shona Robison	13,314	49.6	+10.0
	Labour	Iain Luke	8,790	32.7	-6.6
	Conservative	Chris Bustin	2,976	11.1	+0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Clive Sneddon	1,789	6.7	+0.7
Majority			4,524	16.8	+16.5
Rejected ballots			913		{{{change}}}
Turnout			28,698	49.9	+2.8
	SNP hold		Swing	16.9 %

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Dundee East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Shona Robison	10,428	39.58	+5.32
	Labour	John McAllion	10,338	39.24	-4.04
	Conservative	Edward Prince	3,133	11.89	-2.09
	Liberal Democrats	Clive Sneddon	1,584	6.01	-0.79
	Independent	James Gourlay	865	3.28	+3.28
Majority			90	0.34
Turnout			26,348		- 6.43
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing	0.34 %

Scottish Parliament election, 1999: Dundee East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John McAllion	13,703	43.28
	SNP	Shona Robison	10,849	34.26
	Conservative	Iain Mitchell	4,428	13.98
	Liberal Democrats	Raymond Lawrie	2,153	6.80
	Scottish Socialist	Harvey Duke	530	1.67
Majority			2,854	9.02
Turnout			31,663
	Labour hold		Swing

See also

• Politics of Dundee