Angus (UK Parliament constituency)

Angus; County constituency
Angus shown within Scotland
Created:	1997
MP:	Michael Weir
Party:	Scottish National Party
Type:	House of Commons
Council areas:	Angus
EP constituency:	Scotland

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Coordinates: 56°47′49″N 2°55′16″W / 56.797°N 2.921°W / 56.797; -2.921

Angus is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It was created for the 1997 general election, largely replacing East Angus. It is now a marginal seat between the Scottish National Party and the Conservatives. As a result of boundary changes for the 2005 general election, boundaries are now quite different from those of the Angus Scottish Parliament constituency, which was created in 1999.

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the Angus council area, minus an area round the Dundee City council area, which is divided between the Dundee East and Dundee West constituencies.

Until the 2005 general election, it covered the south-east of the Angus council area, north-eastern and north-western areas of the Dundee City council area, and a small eastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area. The north-west of the Angus council area was within the North Tayside constituency.

Scottish Parliament constituencies retain the older boundaries.

Major towns in the House of Commons constituency are Arbroath, Brechin, Forfar and Montrose.

[edit] History

[edit] Member of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1997	Andrew Welsh	SNP
	2001	Michael Weir	SNP

[edit] Election results

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election ^[1] ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alberto Costa
	SNP	Michael Weir
	Liberal Democrat	Sanjay Samani

General Election 2005: Angus^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Michael Weir	12,840	33.7	-1.6
	Conservative	Sandy Bushby	11,239	29.5	+4.5
	Labour	Douglas Bradley	6,850	18.0	−5.4
	Liberal Democrat	Rev Scott Rennie	6,660	17.5	+3.2
	Scottish Socialist	Alan Manley	556	1.5	−0.4
Majority			1,601	4.2
Turnout			38,145	60.5	+6.4
	SNP hold		Swing	+1.3

General Election 2001: Angus^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Michael Weir	12,347	35.3	−13.0
	Conservative	Marcus Booth	8,736	25.0	+0.4
	Labour	Ian McFatridge	8,183	23.4	+7.8
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Nield	5,015	14.3	+4.9
	Scottish Socialist	Bruce Wallace	732	2.1	N/A
Majority			3,611	10.3
Turnout			35,013	59.3	−12.8
	SNP hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Angus^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Andrew Welsh	20,792	48.3
	Conservative	Sebastian Leslie	10,603	24.6
	Labour	Catherine Taylor	6,733	15.6
	Liberal Democrat	Dick Speirs	4,065	9.4
	Referendum Party	Brian Taylor	883	2.0
Majority			10,189	23.7
Turnout			43,076	72.1
	SNP hold		Swing

[edit] References

^ Angus, UKPollingReport
^ Conservative Home
^ "Election 2005; Result: Angus". BBC News (British Broadcasting Corporation). 2005-05-16. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/674.stm. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
^ ^a ^b "Vote2001: Results & Constituencies". BBC News (British Broadcasting Corporation). http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/012.stm. Retrieved 2008-07-26.

[0] Angus, UKPollingReport

[1] Conservative Home

[2] "Election 2005; Result: Angus". BBC News (British Broadcasting Corporation). 2005-05-16. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/674.stm. Retrieved 2008-07-26.

[BBC_2001-3] "Vote2001: Results & Constituencies". BBC News (British Broadcasting Corporation). http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/012.stm. Retrieved 2008-07-26.

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Angus (UK Parliament constituency)

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[edit] Member of Parliament

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

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