Dundee City East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Dundee East (UK Parliament constituency).

Dundee City East
burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	Shona Robison
Council area	Dundee City
Created from	Dundee East

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

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

Electoral region

The other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region are Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen Donside, Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns, Angus South, Banffshire and Buchan Coast and Dundee City West.

The region covers all of the Aberdeen City council area, the Aberdeenshire council area, the Angus council area, the Dundee City council area and part of the Moray council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area

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.

Dundee City is represented by two constituencies in the Scottish Parliament: Dundee City East and Dundee City West.

From the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the redrawn and renamed Dundee City East constituency consists of the following electoral wards:

In full: East End, The Ferry
In part: Coldside, Maryfield, North East (shared with Dundee City West)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

As Dundee East

	Member	Party
1999	John McAllion	Scottish Labour Party
2003	Shona Robison	Scottish National Party
2007	Shona Robison	Scottish National Party

As Dundee City East

Election		Member	Party
	2011	Shona Robison	Scottish National Party
	2016	Shona Robison	Scottish National Party

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Dundee City East^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Shona Robison	16,509	58.1	-6.2
	Labour	Richard McCready	5,611	19.7	-3.0
	Conservative	Bill Bowman	4,969	17.5	+7.6
	Liberal Democrats	Craig Duncan	911	3.2	+0.1
	TUSC	Leah Ganley	437	1.5
Majority			10,898	38.4
Turnout			28,437	51.5
	SNP hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Dundee City East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Shona Robison	16,541	64.2	+15.2
	Labour	Mohammed Asif	5,862	22.8	-9.8
	Conservative	Brian Docherty	2,550	9.9	-1.5
	Liberal Democrats	Allan Petrie	800	3.1	-3.9
Majority			10,679	41.5
Turnout			25,753	47.4	-832
	SNP hold		Swing	+12.5

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Dundee City East
Party		Votes	%
	SNP	13,041	49.1
	Labour	8,649	32.5
	Conservative	3,024	11.4
	Liberal Democrats	1,871	7.0
Majority		4,392	16.5
	SNP hold	Swing

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

Central Scotland	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	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Provan Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Southside Rutherglen

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Ross Inverness and Nairn Moray Na h-Eileanan an Iar Orkney Shetland Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

Lothian	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	Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Mid Fife and Glenrothes North East Fife Perthshire North Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Stirling

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

References

↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/scotland-constituencies/S16000098

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