Gordon (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 56°58′08″N 3°10′41″W / 56.969°N 3.178°W / 56.969; -3.178

Gordon
County constituency
for the House of Commons

Outline map

Boundary of Gordon in Scotland.
Subdivisions of Scotland Aberdeenshire and City of Aberdeen
Current constituency
Created 1983
Member of parliament Alex Salmond (SNP)
Created from East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire[1]
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency Scotland

Gordon is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster), which elects one member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The constituency first returned a member in the 1983 general election, but has undergone boundary changes since that date.

The constituency has been represented since 2015 by Alex Salmond of the Scottish National Party

Boundaries

1983–1997: Gordon District, and the City of Aberdeen District electoral divisions of East Don and West Don.

1997–2005: The Gordon District electoral divisions of East Gordon, Formartine, Garioch, Inverurie, Kintore and Newmachar, and West Gordon, the Banff and Buchan District electoral division of Lower Deveron and Upper Ythan, and the Moray District electoral division of Keith-Strathisla.

2005–present: The Aberdeenshire Council wards of Tarves, Ythan, Ellon Town, Logie Buchan, Meldrum, Udny-Slains, Belhelvie, Insch, Chapel and Gadie, Inverurie North, Inverurie Central, Inverurie South and Port Elphinstone, Kintore and Keithhall, Newmachar and Fintray, Huntly West, Huntly East, and Strathbogie, and the Aberdeen City Council wards of Pitmedden, Bankhead/Stoneywood, Danestone, Jesmond, Oldmachar, and Bridge of Don.

New boundaries were used for the 2005 general election. Prior to that election the constituency covered a central portion of the Aberdeenshire council area and a small eastern portion of the Moray council area. As a result of the 2005 boundary changes, in accordance with the Fifth Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland,[2] the Gordon constituency is now one of five covering the Aberdeenshire council area and the Aberdeen City council area.

The Gordon constituency now covers a central portion of the Aberdeenshire area and a northern portion of the Aberdeen City area. Entirely within the Aberdeenshire area, there is also Banff and Buchan, to the north of Gordon, and West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, to the south. Entirely within the Aberdeen City area, there is also Aberdeen North, to the south of Gordon, and Aberdeen South, further south.

The towns of Ellon, Huntly and Inverurie remain within the constituency.

Keith (within the Moray council area) was transferred to the Moray constituency, Turriff was transferred to the Banff and Buchan constituency, and Kemnay and Westhill were transferred to the West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine constituency.

The Bridge of Don and Dyce areas (within the Aberdeen City council area) were transferred to the Gordon constituency from the Aberdeen North constituency.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember[3] Party
1983 Sir Malcolm Bruce Liberal
1988 Liberal Democrat
2015 Alex Salmond SNP

Election results

Elections of the 2010s

General Election 2015: Gordon[4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
SNP Alex Salmond[6] 27,717 47.7 +25.5
Liberal Democrat Christine Anne Jardine 19,030 32.7 −3.3
Conservative Colin Clark 6,807 11.7 −7.0
Labour Braden Davy 3,441 5.9 −14.2
UKIP Emily Santos[7] 1,166 2.0 N/A
Majority 8,687 15.0
Turnout 58,161 73.3 +6.9
SNP gain from Liberal Democrat Swing +14.4
General Election 2010: Gordon[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democrat Malcolm Bruce 17,575 36.0 −9.0
SNP Richard Thomson 10,827 22.2 +6.2
Labour Barney Crockett 9,811 20.1 −0.1
Conservative Ross Thomson 9,111 18.7 +1.1
Scottish Green Sue Edwards 752 1.5 N/A
BNP Elise Jones 699 1.4 N/A
Majority 6,748 13.8
Turnout 48,755 66.4 +4.6
Liberal Democrat hold Swing −7.6

Elections of the 2000s

General Election 2005: Gordon[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democrat Malcolm Bruce 20,008 45.0 +6.2
Labour Iain Brotchie 8,982 20.2 −1.3
Conservative Philip Atkinson 7,842 17.6 −1.4
SNP Joanna Strathdee 7,098 16.0 +0.4
Scottish Socialist Tommy Paterson 508 1.1 −0.3
Majority 11,026 24.8
Turnout 44,438 61.8 +5.2
Liberal Democrat hold Swing +3.8

Before the 2005 general election, Scotland went through major boundary changes.

General Election 2001: Gordon[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democrat Malcolm Bruce 17,928 48.5 +5.9
Conservative Nanette Milne 8,049 21.8 −4.2
SNP Rhona Kemp 5,760 15.6 −4.4
Labour Ellis Thorpe 4,730 12.8 +2.5
Scottish Socialist John Sangster 534 1.4 N/A
Majority 9,879 22.5
Turnout 35,001 58.3 −13.6
Liberal Democrat hold Swing

Elections of the 1990s

General Election 1997: Gordon[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democrat Malcolm Bruce 17,999 42.6 +15.4 [12]
Conservative John Porter 11,002 26.0 −22.0
SNP Richard Lochhead 8,435 20.0 +1.4
Labour Lindsey Kirkhill 4,350 10.3 +4.0
Referendum Fred Pidcock 459 1.1 N/A
Majority 6,997 16.6 +16.1
Turnout 42,245 71.9 −2
Liberal Democrat hold Swing
Notional general election of 1992[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative 19,596 48.0
Liberal Democrat 11,110 27.2
SNP 7,593 18.6
Labour 2,561 6.3
Majority 8,486 20.8
General Election 1992: Gordon[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democrat Malcolm Bruce 22,158 37.4 −12.0
Conservative John Porter 21,884 37.0 +5.1
SNP Brian Adam 8,445 14.3 +7.1
Labour Peter Morrell 6,682 11.3 −0.2
Majority 274 0.4
Turnout 74.3
Liberal Democrat hold Swing

Elections of the 1980s

General Election 1987: Gordon[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Malcolm Bruce 26,770 49.4 +5.6
Conservative Peter Ross Leckie 17,251 31.9 −10.1
Labour Mrs. Morag Carmichael Morrell 6,228 11.5 +3.0
SNP George Easton Wright 3,876 7.2 +1.5
Majority 9,519 17.5
Turnout 54,125 73.7
Liberal hold Swing
General Election 1983: Gordon[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Malcolm Bruce 20,134 43.8 N/A
Conservative James Cran 19,284 42.0 N/A
Labour George Grant 3,899 8.5 N/A
SNP Kenneth James Nicolson Guild 2,636 5.7 N/A
Majority 850 1.8 N/A
Turnout 45,953 70.1 N/A
Liberal win (new seat)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "'Gordon', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Boundary Commission for Scotland website.
  3. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
  4. ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  5. ↑ http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/elections/DeclarationofResult-Gordon.pdf 7Aug15
  6. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30364575
  7. ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/gordon/
  8. ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  12. ↑ http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-information-office/m15.pdf
  13. ↑ "Media Guide to the New Parliament Constituencies", compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, 1995, p. 87
  14. ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  16. ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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