South Scotland | |
Constituency Type: | electoral region |
Parl Name: | Scottish Parliament |
Year: | 2011 |
Member Label: | MSPs |
Members: | Scottish National Party 7 Scottish Conservative Party 6 Labour 3 |
Local Council Label: | Council areas |
Local Council: | Dumfries and Galloway East Ayrshire East Lothian (part) Midlothian (part) Scottish Borders South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire (part) |
Parts Label: | Constituencies |
Parts: | 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 |
Population: | 682,329 (2019)[1] |
South Scotland is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elects a total of 16 MSPs.
The South Scotland region was created as a result of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries and largely replaced the South of Scotland region.[2]
As a result of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries the boundaries for the region and constituencies were redrawn for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.
Prior to the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries, the area which previously encompassed much of the South Scotland electoral region was known as the 'South of Scotland' electoral region. The constituencies were created in 1999 with the names and boundaries of Westminster constituencies, as existing in at that time.[3]
The First Past the Post constituencies can be found below:
The region covered the following local government areas:In full:
In part:
N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only
In the 2021 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows: