Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions from 2011

As a result of the first periodical review of Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) constituencies, new constituencies and additional member regions of the Scottish Parliament were introduced for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election. The D'Hondt method is used, as previously, in the allocation of additional member seats.

The Boundary Commission for Scotland began the review as announced on 3 July 2007, and provisional proposals were published on Thursday 14 February 2008.

The Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004 required the commission to review boundaries of all constituencies except Orkney and Shetland (which cover, respectively, the Orkney Islands council area and the Shetland Islands council area) so that the area covered by the reviewed constituencies continues to be covered by a total of 71 constituencies.

The Orkney and Shetland constituencies were taken into account, however, in review of boundaries of the additional member regions.

Final recommendations followed public consultations and a series of local inquiries, and the terms of the 2004 act required final recommendations to be submitted in a report to the Secretary of State for Scotland not later than 30 June 2010.

Boundary changes

For the purposes of the review the Boundary Commission for Scotland must take into account the boundaries of the local government council areas. In order to do this some council areas were grouped together, the largest of these groupings of provisional proposals consisted of four of Scotland's 32 council areas the smallest only containing one. Constituencies created in 1999 were based on Scottish Westminster constituencies that were created in 1997 and they in turn were based on the boundaries of local government regions and districts and islands areas that existed at the time, but since have been abolished and replaced with the council areas.

Following their proposal processes the Commission published their Final Recommendations. All the review processes were completed with the outlined constituencies below no longer due for alteration.

Constituencies

Constituency	Council area or areas	Additional members region	Population (2019)
Aberdeen Central	Aberdeen City	North East Scotland	83,675
Aberdeen Donside	Aberdeen City	North East Scotland	80,156
Aberdeen South and North Kincardine	Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire	North East Scotland	79,644
Aberdeenshire East	Aberdeenshire	North East Scotland	80,855
Aberdeenshire West	Aberdeenshire	North East Scotland	76,516
Airdrie and Shotts	North Lanarkshire	Central Scotland	70,478
Almond Valley	West Lothian	Lothian	86,477
Angus North and Mearns	Aberdeenshire, Angus	North East Scotland	70,839
Angus South	Angus	North East Scotland	72,926
Argyll and Bute	Argyll and Bute	Highlands and Islands	60,394
Ayr	South Ayrshire	South Scotland	75,598
Banffshire and Buchan Coast	Aberdeenshire, Moray	North East Scotland	75,612
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross	Highland	Highlands and Islands	69,767
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire	South Scotland	75,928
Clackmannanshire and Dunblane	Clackmannanshire, Stirling	Mid Scotland and Fife	68,728
Clydebank and Milngavie	East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire	West Scotland	70,398
Clydesdale	South Lanarkshire	South Scotland	72,548
Coatbridge and Chryston	North Lanarkshire	Central Scotland	72,162
Cowdenbeath	Fife	Mid Scotland and Fife	71,913
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	North Lanarkshire	Central Scotland	64,322
Cunninghame North	North Ayrshire	West Scotland	69,233
Cunninghame South	North Ayrshire	West Scotland	66,047
Dumbarton	Argyll and Bute, West Dunbartonshire	West Scotland	72,921
Dumfriesshire	Dumfries and Galloway	South Scotland	75,849
Dundee City East	Dundee City	North East Scotland	70,971
Dundee City West	Dundee City	North East Scotland	77,779
Dunfermline	Fife	Mid Scotland and Fife	77,005
East Kilbride	South Lanarkshire	Central Scotland	77,300
East Lothian	East Lothian	South Scotland	79,505
Eastwood	East Renfrewshire	West Scotland	71,066
Edinburgh Central	City of Edinburgh	Lothian	94,040
Edinburgh Eastern	City of Edinburgh	Lothian	86,488
Edinburgh Northern and Leith	City of Edinburgh	Lothian	93,605
Edinburgh Pentlands	City of Edinburgh	Lothian	77,633
Edinburgh Southern	City of Edinburgh	Lothian	81,639
Edinburgh Western	City of Edinburgh	Lothian	85,095
Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire	Scottish Borders	South Scotland	68,019
Falkirk East	Falkirk	Central Scotland	80,482
Falkirk West	Falkirk	Central Scotland	79,858
Galloway and West Dumfries	Dumfries and Galloway	South Scotland	72,941
Glasgow Anniesland	Glasgow City	Glasgow	75,114
Glasgow Cathcart	Glasgow City	Glasgow	74,809
Glasgow Kelvin	Glasgow City	Glasgow	93,212
Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn	Glasgow City	Glasgow	74,527
Glasgow Pollok	Glasgow City	Glasgow	81,004
Glasgow Provan	Glasgow City	Glasgow	76,859
Glasgow Shettleston	Glasgow City	Glasgow	79,969
Glasgow Southside	Glasgow City	Glasgow	70,916
Greenock and Inverclyde	Inverclyde	West Scotland	72,866
Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse	South Lanarkshire	Central Scotland	74,077
Inverness and Nairn	Highland	Highlands and Islands	89,755
Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley	East Ayrshire	South Scotland	82,864
Kirkcaldy	Fife	Mid Scotland and Fife	78,351
Linlithgow	West Lothian	Lothian	95,663
Mid Fife and Glenrothes	Fife	Mid Scotland and Fife	69,415
Midlothian North and Musselburgh	East Lothian, Midlothian	Lothian	85,799
Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale	Midlothian, Scottish Borders	South Scotland	79,077
Moray	Moray	Highlands and Islands	80,367
Motherwell and Wishaw	North Lanarkshire	Central Scotland	76,394
Na h-Eileanan an Iar	Na h-Eileanan Siar	Highlands and Islands	26,830
North East Fife	Fife	Mid Scotland and Fife	75,226
Orkney	Orkney Islands	Highlands and Islands	22,190
Paisley	Renfrewshire	West Scotland	72,752
Perthshire North	Perth and Kinross	Mid Scotland and Fife	72,577
Perthshire South and Kinross-shire	Perth and Kinross	Mid Scotland and Fife	78,713
Renfrewshire North and West	Inverclyde, Renfrewshire	West Scotland	66,270
Renfrewshire South	East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire	West Scotland	68,156
Rutherglen	South Lanarkshire	Glasgow	77,568
Shetland	Shetland Islands	Highlands and Islands	22,990
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch	Highland	Highlands and Islands	76,018
Stirling	Stirling	Mid Scotland and Fife	77,002
Strathkelvin and Bearsden	East Dunbartonshire	West Scotland	80,007
Uddingston and Bellshill	North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire	Central Scotland	74,351

Electoral regions

The Boundary Commission also recommended changes to the electoral regions used to elect "list" members of the Scottish Parliament. The recommendations can be summarised below;

Region	Constituencies	map
Central Scotland (2019 population: 669,424)	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill
Glasgow (2019 population: 703,978)	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Provan Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Southside Rutherglen
Highlands and Islands (2019 population: 448,311)	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Ross Inverness and Nairn Moray Na h-Eileanan an Iar Orkney Shetland Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch
Lothian (2019 population: 786,439)	Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh
Mid Scotland and Fife (2019 population: 668,930)	Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Mid Fife and Glenrothes North East Fife Perthshire North Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Stirling
North East Scotland (2019 population: 768,973)	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen Donside Aberdeen South and North Kincardine Aberdeenshire East Aberdeenshire West Angus North and Mearns Angus South Banffshire and Buchan Coast Dundee City East Dundee City West
South Scotland (2019 population: 682,329)	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Dumfriesshire East Lothian Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire Galloway and West Dumfries Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale
West Scotland (2019 population: 709,716)	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Cunninghame South Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley Renfrewshire North and West Renfrewshire South Strathkelvin and Bearsden

Historical representation by party

Central Scotland

  Conservative   Independent   Labour   Liberal Democrats   Scottish National Party   Scottish Senior Citizens Unity   Scottish Socialist

	1999	2003	2007	2011	14	2016	2021
Airdrie and Shotts	Whitefield			Neil
Coatbridge and Chryston	E. Smith					MacGregor
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	Craigie			Hepburn
East Kilbride	A. Kerr			Fabiani			Stevenson
Falkirk East	Peattie			A. MacDonald			Thomson
Falkirk West	Canavan		Matheson
Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse / Hamilton South (1999–2011)	McCabe			McKelvie
Motherwell and Wishaw	McConnell			Pentland		Adamson
Uddingston and Bellshill / Hamilton North and Bellshill (1999–2011)	M. McMahon					Lyle	Callaghan
Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Jamieson		Coffey	abolished
Central Scotland 1	Gorrie		O'Donnell	Griffin
Central Scotland 2	A. Wilson	Leckie	Hepburn	S. McMahon		Leonard
Central Scotland 3	Neil			McCulloch		Lennon
Central Scotland 4	Fabiani			Lyle		E. Smith	Mackay
Central Scotland 5	Matheson		McKelvie	Adamson		G. Simpson
Central Scotland 6	Paterson	Swinburne	J. Wilson		-->	Harris	Kerr
Central Scotland 7	McIntosh	Mitchell					Gallacher

Glasgow

  Conservative   Green   Independent   Labour   Liberal Democrats   Scottish National Party   Scottish Socialist   Solidarity

	1999	00	02	2003	05	06	2007	09	2011	2016	2021
Glasgow Anniesland	Dewar	Butler							Kidd
Glasgow Cathcart	Watson				Gordon				Dornan
Glasgow Govan / Glasgow Southside (2011)	Jackson						Sturgeon
Glasgow Kelvin	McNeill								White		Stewart
Glasgow Pollok	Lamont									Yousaf
Glasgow Rutherglen / Rutherglen (2011)	Hughes						Kelly			Haughey
Glasgow Shettleston	McAveety								Mason
Glasgow Maryhill / Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn (2011)	Ferguson									Doris
Glasgow Springburn / Glasgow Provan (2011)	Martin									McKee
Glasgow Baillieston	Curran								abolished
Glasgow 1	Gibson			P. Harvie
Glasgow 2	Sturgeon						Doris			Sarwar
Glasgow 3	White								Yousaf	Lamont	Sweeney
Glasgow 4	Elder		-->	Kane			Ahmad	McLaughlin	Malik	Kelly	Glancy
Glasgow 5	Sheridan					-->	Kidd		D. Smith	McNeill
Glasgow 6	R. Brown								McTaggart	Tomkins	Gulhane
Glasgow 7	Aitken								R. Davidson	Wells

Highlands and Islands

  Conservative   Green   Independent   Labour   Liberal Democrats   Scottish National Party

	1999	2003	06	2007	2011	12	2016	17	19	2021
Argyll and Bute	Lyon			Mather	Russell					Minto
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross / Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (1999–2011)	Stone				Gibson		G. Ross			Todd
Inverness and Nairn / Inverness East,Nairn and Lochaber (1999–2011)	F. Ewing
Moray	M. Ewing		Lochhead
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch / Ross, Skye and Inverness West (1999–2011)	Munro				Thompson		Forbes
Na h-Eileanan an Iar / Western Isles (1999–2011)	Morrison			Allan
Orkney	J. Wallace				McArthur
Shetland	T. Scott								Wishart
Highlands and Islands 1	W. Ewing	Gibson			J. Finnie			-->	-->	Burgess
Highlands and Islands 2	Hamilton	Mather		Hamilton	MacKenzie		Todd			Roddick
Highlands and Islands 3	Macmillan			D. Stewart						D.Ross
Highlands and Islands 4	Grant	E. Scott		Grant
Highlands and Islands 5	Peacock				Urquhart		-->	D. Ross	Johnston
Highlands and Islands 6	McGrigor						Mountain
Highlands and Islands 7	Scanlon		Petrie	Scanlon			Cameron

Lothian / Lothians (1999–2011)

  Conservative   Green   Independent   Labour   Liberal Democrats   Scottish National Party   Scottish Socialist

	1999	2003	May 2007	Aug 07	2011	13	14	2016	19	2021
Almond Valley / Livingston (1999–2011)	Muldoon		Constance
Edinburgh Eastern / Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (1999–2011)	Deacon		MacAskill					Denham
Edinburgh Central	Boyack				Biagi			R. Davidson		Robertson
Edinburgh Northern and Leith / Edinburgh North and Leith (1999–2011)	Chisholm							Macpherson
Edinburgh Pentlands	Gray	McLetchie			G. MacDonald
Edinburgh Southern / Edinburgh South (1999–2011)	A. MacKay	Pringle		Eadie				Johnson
Edinburgh Western / Edinburgh West (1999–2011)	M. Smith				Keir			Cole-Hamilton
Linlithgow	Mulligan				Hyslop
Midlothian North and Musselburgh / Midlothian (1999–2011)	Brankin				Beattie
Lothian 1 / Lothians 1 (1999–2011)	Harper				Johnstone
Lothian 2 / Lothians 2 (1999–2011)	M. MacDonald	-->					vacant	Wightman		Slater
Lothian 3 / Lothians 3 (1999–2011)	Hyslop				Dugdale				Boyack
Lothian 4 / Lothians 4 (1999–2011)	MacAskill			McKee	Findlay					Choudhury
Lothian 5 / Lothians 5 (1999–2011)	Steel	Fox	Tymkewycz	Somerville	Boyack			Lindhurst		Webber
Lothian 6 / Lothians 6 (1999–2011)	Douglas-Hamilton		G. Brown					Briggs
Lothian 7 / Lothians 7 (1999–2011)	McLetchie	Ballard	Foulkes		McLetchie	Buchanan		Balfour

Mid Scotland and Fife

  Conservative   Green   Independent   Labour   Liberal Democrats   Scottish National Party

	1999	2003	05	2007	2011	12	13	14	2016	2021
Cowdenbeath					Eadie			Rowley	A. Ewing
Dunfermline					Walker	-->	Hilton		Somerville
Dunfermline East (1999–2011)	Eadie
Dunfermline West (1999–2011)	Barrie			Tolson
Clackmannanshire and Dunblane / Ochil (1999–2011)	R. Simpson	Reid		K. Brown
Mid Fife and Glenrothes / Fife Central (1999–2011)	McLeish	May		Marwick					Gilruth
Kirkcaldy	Livingstone				Torrance
North East Fife	I. Smith				R. Campbell				Rennie
Perthshire North / North Tayside (1999–2011)	Swinney
Perthshire South and Kinross-shire / Perth (1999–2011)	Cunningham									Fairlie
Stirling	Jackson			Crawford						Tweed
Mid Scotland and Fife 1	Crawford			C. Harvie	A. Ewing				Ruskell
Mid Scotland and Fife 2	Marwick			Park	Baxter				Rowley
Mid Scotland and Fife 3	Reid	Ruskell		Brennan-Baker
Mid Scotland and Fife 4	Raffan		Arbuckle	R. Simpson					Lockhart
Mid Scotland and Fife 5	Harding	Brocklebank			Rennie				A. Stewart
Mid Scotland and Fife 6	Johnston	Fraser
Mid Scotland and Fife 7	Monteith			L. Smith

North East Scotland

  Conservative   Green   Labour   Liberal Democrats   Scottish National Party

	1999	01	2003	06	2007	2011	13	Jan 16	May 2016	Dec 16	17	2021
Aberdeen Central	L. MacDonald					K. Stewart
Aberdeen Donside / Aberdeen North (1999–2011)	E. Thomson		B. Adam				McDonald				-->	Dunbar
Aberdeen South and North Kincardine / Aberdeen South (1999–2011)	Stephen					Watt						Nicoll
Aberdeenshire East / Gordon (1999–2011)	Radcliffe			Salmond					Martin
Aberdeenshire West / West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (1999–2011)	Rumbles					Robertson			Burnett
Angus (1999–2011)	Welsh
Angus North and Mearns (2011-)						Don			Gougeon
Angus South (2011-)						Dey
Banffshire and Buchan Coast / Banff and Buchan (1999–2011)	Salmond	Stevenson										Adam
Dundee City East / Dundee East (1999–2011)	McAllion		Robison
Dundee City West / Dundee West (1999–2011)	Maclean				FitzPatrick
North East Scotland 1	Robison		Glen			J.Marra						M.Marra
North East Scotland 2	B. Adam		Baird		Don	L. MacDonald
North East Scotland 3	McGugan		Baker					Brennan	R. Thomson		Mason	Lumsden
North East Scotland 4	Lochhead			Watt		McDonald	Allard		Chapman			Golden
North East Scotland 5	Ale. Johnstone									Bowman		White
North East Scotland 6	B. Wallace		Milne						L. Kerr
North East Scotland 7	D. Davidson				McInnes				Rumbles			Chapman

South of Scotland / South Scotland (2011)

  Conservative   Green   Independent   Labour   Liberal Democrats   Reform UK   Scottish National Party   Scottish Socialist   Solidarity

	1999	00	2003	05	06	2007	2011	2016	17	20	21	2021
Ayr	Welsh	J. Scott										Brown
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	Jamieson						Ingram	Freeman
Clydesdale	Gillon						A. Campbell					McAllan
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale / Galloway and West Dumfries (2011)	Morgan		Fergusson					Carson
Dumfries / Dumfriesshire (2011)	Murray							O. Mundell
Roxburgh and Berwickshire / Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire (2011)	Robson					Lamont
Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale / Midlothian S, Tweeddale & Lauderdale (2011)	Jenkins		Purvis				Grahame
East Lothian	Home Robertson					Gray						McLennan
Cunninghame South	Oldfather
Kilmarnock & Irvine Valley							Coffey
South of Scotland 1 / South Scotland 1 (2011)	Grahame						McAlpine					Mochan
South of Scotland 2 / South Scotland 2 (2011)	Ingram						Wheelhouse					Whitfield
South of Scotland 3 / South Scotland 3 (2011)	Russell		Morgan				McLeod	Harper
South of Scotland 4 / South Scotland 4 (2011)	Fergusson		Byrne		-->	Russell	Brodie	Hamilton	Ballantyne	-->	-->	Hoy
South of Scotland 5 / South Scotland 5 (2011)	Tosh		Ballance			A. Campbell	Beamish					Dowey
South of Scotland 6 / South Scotland 6 (2011)	D. Mundell			Brownlee			Pearson	Smyth
South of Scotland 7 / South Scotland 7 (2011)	Gallie					Hume		Whittle

West of Scotland / West Scotland (2011)

  Conservative   Green   Independent   Labour   Liberal Democrats   Scottish National Party   Scottish Socialist

	1999	01	2003	2007	2011	2016	20	2021
Strathkelvin and Bearsden	Galbraith	Fitzpatrick	Turner	Whitton	McLeod	R. Mackay
Clydebank and Milngavie	McNulty				Paterson			McNair
Dumbarton	Baillie
Eastwood	Macintosh					Carlaw
Paisley South / Renfrewshire South (2011)	Henry					Arthur
Paisley North / Paisley (2011)	Alexander				G. Adam
West Renfrewshire / Renfrewshire North and West (2011)	Godman				D. Mackay		-->	Don
Greenock and Inverclyde	McNeil					McMillan
Cunninghame North	A. Wilson			K. Gibson
Cunninghame South					Burgess	Maguire
West of Scotland 1 / West Scotland 1 (2011)	C. Campbell		Maxwell			Greer
West of Scotland 2 / West Scotland 2 (2011)	Ullrich		Martin	McMillan		Macintosh		Clark
West of Scotland 3 / West Scotland 3 (2011)	Quinan		McFee	W. Wilson	Fee			O'Kane
West of Scotland 4 / West Scotland 4 (2011)	McLeod		F. Curran	Paterson	Bibby
West of Scotland 5 / West Scotland 5 (2011)	R. Finnie				McDougall	Greene
West of Scotland 6 / West Scotland 6 (2011)	Goldie					Golden		Findlay
West of Scotland 7 / West Scotland 7 (2011)	Young		Tosh	Carlaw		Corry		Gosal

References

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