Scottish Westminster constituencies from 2005
Overview |
1708 to 1832 |
1832 to 1868 |
1868 to 1885 |
1885 to 1918 |
1918 to 1950 |
1950 to 1955 |
1955 to 1974 |
1974 to 1983 |
1983 to 1997 |
1997 to 2005 |
2005 to present |
As a result of the Fifth Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, Scotland is covered by 59 constituencies of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament - 19 Burgh constituencies and 40 County constituencies. Constituencies marked * appear on the Central Area Enlargement.
Constituencies and council areas
The Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland related the boundaries of new constituencies to those of Scottish local government council areas and to local government wards. Apart from a few minor adjustments, the council area boundaries dated from 1996 and the ward boundaries dated from 1999. Some council areas were grouped to form larger areas and, within these larger areas, some constituencies straddle council area boundaries.
The same council area and ward boundaries were in use when the new constituencies were first used in 2005, but ward boundaries have changed since then. New wards were introduced for the 2007 Scottish local government elections.
Results (2015)
Scottish National Party Conservative Party Labour Party Liberal Democrats
The aggregate votes of all Scottish constituencies for the 2015 General election are as follows:
- Scottish National Party: 1,454,436 (50.0%)
- Labour: 707,147 (24.3%)
- Conservatives: 434,097 (14.9%)
- Liberal Democrats: 219,675 (7.5%)
- UK Independence Party: 47,078 (1.6%)
- Green Party: 39,205 (1.3%)
- Trade Unionist & Socialist: 1,720 (0.1%)
- Others: 7,107 (0.2%)
List of Constituencies by Party
Revised constituencies from 2020
The Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituency boundaries released its draft recommendations for Scotland on 20 October 2016. The proposed constituencies for Scotland were as follows. See http://www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk/2018_Westminster/initial_proposals/summary_initial_proposals_booklet.pdf
Council areas | Constituencies |
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Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Angus and Dundee City | Aberdeen North (continuing) Aberdeen South (continuing) Angus Glens and Dundee East Banff and Buchan (continuing) Dundee (resurrected; active 1832-1950) Gordon and Deeside Kincardine and Angus East |
Argyll and Bute, Highland and Moray | Argyll, Bute and Lochaber
Highland North Inverness and Skye Moray and Nairn (resurrected; active 1918-1983) |
City of Edinburgh and West Lothian | Edinburgh East (continuing) Edinburgh North and Leith (continuing) Edinburgh Pentland and Livingston Linlithgow (resurrected; active 1983-2005) |
Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling | Clackmannanshire and Stirling North
Falkirk (continuing) Stirling South |
Fife and Perth and Kinross | Dunfermline (resurrected; active 1974-1983) Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy Kinross-shire and Cowdenbeath North East Fife (continuing) Perthshire (resurrected; active 1708-1885) |
Dumfries and Galloway, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire | Airdrie South and Shotts
Clydesdale and Eskdale Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Monklands East Dumfries and Galloway (continuing) East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow (continuing) Hamilton and Motherwell Monklands West (resurrected; active 1983-1997) Rutherglen and Hamilton West (continuing) |
East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and South Ayrshire | Ayr and Carrick
Cunninghame East Cunninghame West Inverclyde and Largs Paisley (resurrected; active 1832-1983) West Renfrewshire (resurrected; active 1885-1983, 1997-2005) |
East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire | Milngavie and Kirkintilloch
West Dunbartonshire and Bearsden North |
East Lothian | East Lothian (continuing) |
Glasgow City | Glasgow Central (continuing) Glasgow East (continuing) Glasgow North (continuing) Glasgow South (continuing) Glasgow South East |
Midlothian and Scottish Borders | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (continuing)
Midlothian and Peebles (resurrected; active 1950-1955) |
Na h-Eileanan Siar | Na h-Eileanan an Iar (continuing) |
Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands | Orkney and Shetland (continuing) |
Historical representation by party
Highland
1885 to 1918
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 1892 | 94 | 1895 | 96 | 1900 | 02 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 17 |
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Orkney and Shetland | Lyell | Wason | --> | --> | |||||||||
Caithness | Clark* | -->* | Harmsworth | ||||||||||
Wick, Cromarty, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall & Tain | Cameron | Pender | Hedderwick | Bignold | Munro | ||||||||
Sutherland | Sutherland-Leveson-Gower | Sutherland | MacLeod* | Leveson-Gower | Morton | ||||||||
Inverness, Forres, Fortrose & Nairn | Finlay | --> | Beith | Finlay | Bryce | ||||||||
Inverness-shire | Fraser-Mackintosh* | -->* | MacGregor* | Baillie | Dewar | Morison | |||||||
Ross and Cromarty | Macdonald* | -->* | Weir | Macpherson |
*also the candidate of the Crofters' Party
1918 to 1983
Constituency | 1918 | 21 | 22 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 36 | 1945 | 47 | 1950 | 1951 | 54 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 | 81 |
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Orkney and Shetland | Wason | Smith | Hamilton | Neven-Spence | Grimond | |||||||||||||||||||
Caithness and Sutherland | Harmsworth | Sinclair | --> | Dower | Robertson | --> | Mackie | Maclennan | --> | |||||||||||||||
Inverness | Morison | Macdonald | --> | --> | Douglas-Hamilton | McLean | Johnston | |||||||||||||||||
Ross and Cromarty | Macpherson | --> | --> | MacDonald | MacLeod | --> | Mackenzie | Gray | ||||||||||||||||
Western Isles | Murray | Cotts | Livingstone | Ramsay | --> | Macmillan | Stewart |
1983 to present
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 |
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Orkney and Shetland | Wallace | --> | Carmichael | ||||||
Caithness and Sutherland / Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (1997) | Maclennan | --> | Thurso | Monaghan | |||||
Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber / Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (1997) / Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (2005) | Johnston | --> | Stewart | Alexander | Hendry | ||||
Ross, Cromarty and Skye / Ross, Skye and Inverness West (1997) / Ross, Skye and Lochaber (2005) | Kennedy | --> | Blackford | ||||||
Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar | Stewart | MacDonald | MacNeil |
Grampian
1885 to 1918
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 89 | 1892 | 92 | 93 | 1895 | 96 | 1900 | 05 | 1906 | 06 | 07 | 08 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 17 | 18 |
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Banffshire | Duff | Wedderburn | Black | Waring | ||||||||||||||
Elgin, Banff, Cullen, Inverurie, Kintore & Peterhead | Asher | Sutherland | Barrie | |||||||||||||||
Elginshire and Nairnshire | Macpherson-Grant | Anderson | Keay | Gordon | Williamson | |||||||||||||
Aberdeen North | Hunter | Pirie | ||||||||||||||||
Aberdeen South | Bryce | Esslemont | Fleming | |||||||||||||||
Aberdeenshire East | Esslemont | Buchanan | Maconochie | Annand | J. Murray | Cowan | ||||||||||||
Aberdeenshire West | Farquharson | Henderson | ||||||||||||||||
Kincardineshire | Balfour | Crombie | A. Murray |
1918 to 1950
Constituency | 1918 | 19 | 22 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 28 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 39 | 1945 | 46 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 58 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 |
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Banff | Barrie | --> | Templeton | Wood | Findlay | Duthie | Baker | Watt | Myles | |||||||||||||||
Moray and Nairn | Williamson | Guthrie | Stuart | Campbell | W. Ewing | Pollock | ||||||||||||||||||
Aberdeen North | Rose | Benn | Burnett | Garro-Jones | H. Hughes | R. Hughes | ||||||||||||||||||
Aberdeen South | F. Thomson | D. Thomson | Buchan | Dewar | Sproat | |||||||||||||||||||
East Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire / A'shire E (1950) | Cowan | Martin | Boothby | Wolrige-Gordon | Henderson | McQuarrie | ||||||||||||||||||
Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine / A'shire W (1950) | Murray | --> | Barclay-Harvey | Scott | Barclay-Harvey | Thornton-Kemsley | Spence | Hendry | Davidson | Mitchell | Fairgrieve | |||||||||||||
Aberdeen and Kincardine Central | Gordon | Wood | Smith | Spence |
1983 to present
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 91 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 |
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Aberdeen Central | Doran | |||||||||
Aberdeen North | R. Hughes | Savidge | Doran | Blackman | ||||||
Aberdeen South | Malone | Doran | Robertson | Begg | McCaig | |||||
Banff and Buchan | McQuarrie | Salmond | Whiteford | |||||||
Gordon | Bruce | --> | Salmond | |||||||
Moray | Pollock | M. Ewing | Robertson | |||||||
Kincardine and Deeside / W Aberdeenshire & K (1997) | Buchanan-Smith | Stephen | Kynoch | Smith | Donaldson |
Central and Tayside
1885 to 1918
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 88 | 89 | 1892 | 94 | 1895 | 96 | 97 | 99 | 1900 | 03 | 1906 | 07 | 08 | 09 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 17 |
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Dundee | Lacaita | Firth | Leng | Wilkie | |||||||||||||||
Robertson | Churchill | ||||||||||||||||||
Forfarshire | Barclay | --> | Rigby | Ramsay | White | Sinclair | Falconer | ||||||||||||
Montrose, Arbroath, Brechin, Forfar & Inverbervie | Will | Morley | Harcourt | ||||||||||||||||
Perth | Parker | Whitelaw | Wallace | Pullar | Whyte | ||||||||||||||
Perthshire Eastern | Menzies | Kinloch | Buchanan | Young | |||||||||||||||
Perthshire Western | Currie | --> | Stroyan | Erskine | Stewart-Murray | Stirling | |||||||||||||
Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire | Balfour | Wason | |||||||||||||||||
Falkirk, Airdrie, Hamilton, Lanark & Linlithgow | Ramsay | Sinclair | Smith | Wilson | Macdonald | ||||||||||||||
Stirling, Culross, Dunfermline, Inverkeithing & Queensferry | Campbell-Bannerman | Ponsonby | |||||||||||||||||
Stirlingshire | Bolton | Jacks | McKillop | Smeaton | Chapple |
1918 to 1950
1950 to 1983
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 52 | 1955 | 1959 | 63 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 71 | 73 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 |
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Dundee East | Cook | Thomson | Machin | Wilson | ||||||||||
Dundee West | Strachey | Doig | Ross | |||||||||||
Angus North and Mearns | Thornton-Kemsley | Buchanan-Smith | ||||||||||||
Angus South | Duncan | Bruce-Gardyne | Welsh | Fraser | ||||||||||
Perth and East Perthshire | Gomme-Duncan | MacArthur | Crawford | Walker | ||||||||||
Kinross and West Perthshire | Snadden | Leburn | Douglas-Home | Fairbairn | ||||||||||
Stirling and Falkirk / & Grangemouth (1974) | MacPherson | Ewing | ||||||||||||
Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan | Woodburn | Douglas | Reid | O'Neill | ||||||||||
Stirlingshire West | Balfour | Baxter | Canavan |
1983 to present
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 95 | 1997 | 00 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 12 | 2015 |
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Dundee East | Wilson | McAllion | Luke | Hosie | |||||||
Dundee West | Ross | McGovern | Law | ||||||||
Angus East / Angus (1997) | Fraser | Welsh | Weir | ||||||||
North Tayside / Perth and North Perthshire (2005) | Walker | Swinney | Wishart | ||||||||
Perth and Kinross / Perth (1997) | Fairbairn | Cunningham | Ewing | ||||||||
Falkirk East | Ewing | Connarty | |||||||||
Falkirk West / Falkirk (from 2005) | Canavan | Joyce | --> | McNally | |||||||
Clackmannan / Ochil (1997) / Ochil & S Perthshire (2005) | O'Neill | Banks | Ahmed-Sheikh | ||||||||
Stirling | Forsyth | McGuire | Paterson |
Fife
1885 to 1918
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 89 | 92 | 1892 | 1895 | 1900 | 03 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 12 |
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Fife East | Kinnear | --> | Asquith | ||||||||||
Fife West | Bruce | Birrell | Hope | Adamson | |||||||||
Kirkcaldy, Burntisland, Dysart & Kinghorn | Campbell | Dalziel | |||||||||||
St Andrews, Anstruther Easter & Wester, Crail, Cupar, Kilrenny & Pittenweem | R. Anstruther | H. Anstruther | Ellice | Anstruther-Gray | Millar | Anstruther-Gray | --> |
1918 to 1974
Constituency | 1918 | 21 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1931 | 33 | 1935 | 44 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 61 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 |
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Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath, Inverkeithing & Lochgelly | Wallace | Watson | Wallace | Watson | Clunie | Thompson | Hunter | ||||||||||||
Fife East | Sprot | Millar | Cochrane | Millar | --> | Henderson-Stewart | Gilmour | ||||||||||||
Fife West | Adamson | Milne | Gallacher | Hamilton | |||||||||||||||
Kirkcaldy, Buckhaven, Burntisland, Dysart & Kinghorn | Dalziel | Kennedy | Hutchison | Kennedy | Russell | Kennedy | Hubbard | Gourlay |
1974 to present
Constituency | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 90 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 06 | 08 | 2010 | 2015 |
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Dunfermline East | Brown | ||||||||||||||
Dunfermline / Dunfermline West (1983) / Dunfermline and West Fife (2005) | Hunter | Douglas | --> | Squire | Rennie | Docherty | Chapman | ||||||||
Fife Central / Glenrothes (2005) | Hamilton | McLeish | MacDougall | Roy | Grant | ||||||||||
Fife East / North East Fife (1983) | Gilmour | Henderson | Campbell | --> | Gethins | ||||||||||
Kirkcaldy / and Cowdenbeath (2005) | Gourlay | Moonie | Brown | Mullin |
Strathclyde
1885 to 1918
1918 to 1950
1 Burghs of Ayr, Ardrossan, Irvine, Prestwick, Saltcoats, and Troon in county of Ayr
1950 to 1974
1983 to present
Lothian
1885 to 1918
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 86 | 88 | 1892 | 93 | 95 | 1895 | 99 | 1900 | 1906 | 09 | Jan 1910 | 10 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 17 |
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Linlithgowshire | McLagan | Hope | Ure | Pratt | |||||||||||||||||
Edinburgh Central | Wilson | McEwan | Brown | Price | |||||||||||||||||
Edinburgh East | Goschen | --> | Wallace | McCrae | Gibson | Hogge | |||||||||||||||
Edinburgh South | Harrison | Childers | Paul | Cox | Dewar | Agnew | Dewar | Lyell | Parrott | ||||||||||||
Edinburgh West | Buchanan | --> | --> | Palmer | McIver | Clyde | --> | ||||||||||||||
Leith, Musselburgh & Portobello | Jacks | --> | Gladstone | Ferguson | Currie | ||||||||||||||||
Midlothian | Gladstone | Gibson-Carmichael | Murray | Primrose | Murray | J. A. Hope | |||||||||||||||
Haddingtonshire | Haldane | J. D. Hope |
1918 to 1950
Constituency | 1918 | 20 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 41 | 43 | 1945 | 45 | 47 | 1950 | 1951 | 54 | 1955 | 57 | 1959 | 60 | 62 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 73 |
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Edinburgh South | Murray | Chapman | Darling | Hutchison | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Midlothian N / Ed Pentlands (1950) | Hope | Hutchison | Clarke | Hutchison | Clarke | Colville | Murray | Hope | Wylie | |||||||||||||||||||
Edinburgh West | Jameson | Phillipps | MacIntyre | Mathers | Normand | Cooper | Hutchison | Stodart | ||||||||||||||||||||
Edinburgh North | Clyde | Ford | Raffan | Ford | Erskine-Hill | Willis | Clyde | Milligan | Scott | Fletcher | ||||||||||||||||||
Edinburgh Central | Graham | Guy | Watt | Gilzean | Oswald | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Leith / Edinburgh Leith (1950) | Benn | Brown | --> | Hoy | Murray | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Midl S & Peebles / M & P (50) / Midl (55) | Maclean | Westwood | Ramsay | Pryde | Hill | Eadie | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Linlithgow / W Lothian (1950) | Kidd | Shinwell | Kidd | Shinwell | Baillie | Mathers | Taylor | Dalyell | ||||||||||||||||||||
Edinburgh East | Hogge | Shiels | Mason | Pethick-Lawrence | Thomson | Wheatley | Willis | Strang |
1974 to present
Constituency | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 05 | 2010 | 2015 | 15 |
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Edinburgh North | Fletcher | ||||||||||||
Edinburgh Pentlands / Edinburgh SW (2005) | Rifkind | Clark | Darling | Cherry | |||||||||
Edinburgh West | Stodart | Douglas-Hamilton | Gorrie | Barrett | Crockart | Thomson | --> | ||||||
Edinburgh South | Hutchison | Ancram | Griffiths | Murray | |||||||||
West Lothian / Linlithgow (1983) / Linlithgow & E Falkirk (2005-) | Dalyell | Connarty | Day | ||||||||||
Edinburgh E (1974–97, 2005-) / & Musselburgh (1997-2005) | Strang | Gilmore | Sheppard | ||||||||||
Edinburgh Leith / Edinburgh North and Leith (1997) | Murray | Brown | Chisholm | Lazarowicz LC | Brock | ||||||||
Midlothian | Eadie | Clarke | Hamilton | Thompson | |||||||||
Livingston | Cook | Devine | Morrice | Bardell | |||||||||
East Lothian | Robertson | Picking | O'Donnell | Kerevan | |||||||||
Edinburgh Central | Cook | Fletcher | Darling |
Dumfries and Galloway and Borders
1885 to 1918
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 1892 | 94 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | 09 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 15 |
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Dumfries, Annan, Kirkcudbright, Lochmaben & Sanquhar | Noel | Reid | Gulland | |||||||||
Dumfriesshire | Jardine | --> | Maxwell | Souttar | Maxwell LU | Molteno | ||||||
Kirkcudbright Stewartry | McTaggart-Stewart | McMicking | McTaggart-Stewart | McMicking | ||||||||
Wigtownshire | Maxwell | J. Dalrymple | H. Dalrymple | |||||||||
Hawick, Galashiels & Selkirk | Trevelyan | --> | Brown | Shaw | Barran | |||||||
Peeblesshire and Selkirkshire | Tennant | Thorburn | Murray | Younger | Maclean | |||||||
Roxburghshire | Elliot | --> | Napier | Montagu-Douglas-Scott | Jardine | |||||||
Berwickshire | Marjoribanks | Tennant |
1918 to 1950
Constituency | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 25 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 35 | 1935 | 1945 | 1950 | 51 | 55 | 1959 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 78 | 1979 |
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Dumfriesshire / Dumfries (1950) | Murray | Chapple | Charteris | Hunter | --> | Fildes | Macpherson | Anderson | Monro | |||||||||||||||
Galloway | McMicking | Dudgeon | Henniker-Hughan | Streatfeild | Dudgeon | --> | Mackie | --> | --> | Brewis | Thompson | Lang | ||||||||||||
Roxburgh & Selkirk / & Peebles (1955) | Munro | Henderson | Montagu Douglas Scott | Montagu Douglas Scott | Macdonald | Donaldson | Steel | |||||||||||||||||
Berwick & Haddington / B & E Lothian (50) | Hope | Waring | Spence | Crookshank | Sinkinson | McEwen | Robertson | Anstruther-Gray | Mackintosh | Ancram | Mackintosh | Robertson |
1983 to present
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 |
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Dumfries / Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale (partially in Strathclyde) | Monro | Brown | Mundell | ||||||
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale / Dumfries and Galloway (2005) | Lang | Morgan | Duncan | Brown | Arkless | ||||
Roxburgh and Berwickshire / Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (2005) | Kirkwood | --> | Moore | Kerr | |||||
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (partially in Lothian 1997-2005) | Steel | --> | Moore |
See also
- Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions for seats in the Scottish Parliament
- Scottish Westminster constituencies 1918 to 1950
References
- ↑ May 2015 election results including electorate http://geo.digiminster.com/election/2015-05-07/Search?Query=Scotland 24Aug15