Edinburgh East is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
In its present form the constituency was first used in the 2005 general election, but there was also an Edinburgh East constituency from 1885 to 1997.
[edit] Boundaries
Edinburgh East is now one of five constituencies covering the City of Edinburgh council area. All are entirely within the city council area. Prior to the 2005 general election, the city area was covered by six constituencies, with one straddling a boundary with another council area.
The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of the Municipal Wards of Broughton, Calton, and Canongate, and so much of St. Leonard's Ward as lies to the north of a line drawn along the centres of East and West Richmond Streets.[1]
In 1918 the constituency consisted of the "Burgh of Musselburgh and the Canongate and Portobello Municipal Wards of Edinburgh."
The Edinburgh East constituency, as defined in 2005, consists of areas formerly within the constituencies of Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, Edinburgh Central and Edinburgh South.[2] It is largely a replacement for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh. Scottish Parliament constituencies retain the names and boundaries of the older Westminster constituencies.
As implied by the name, Edinburgh East covers an eastern portion of the City of Edinburgh. In terms of wards used in elections to the City of Edinburgh Council, 1999 to 2007, it includes the wards of Craigmillar, Duddingston, Holyrood, Leith Links, Meadowbank, Milton, Mountcastle, Portobello, Prestonfield, Restalrig, Southside and Tollcross. The wards are due to be replaced with new wards in 2007, as a consequence of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004.
The constituency is predominantly urban.
The constituency of the 1885 to 1997 period was created when the Edinburgh constituency was abolished, in favour of four new constituencies: Edinburgh East, Edinburgh Central, Edinburgh South and Edinburgh West. Edinburgh Central was abolished in 2005. The South and West constituencies continue in use, with altered boundaries.
[edit] Constituency profile
The constituency is home to some of the Scottish capital's most notable tourist attractions, including Edinburgh Castle, the Holyrood Palace, the Royal Mile, St Giles' Cathedral and the Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood. Towards the south and east it also includes some of Edinburgh's more deprived areas such as the Craigmillar housing estate.
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1885 to 1997
[edit] 2005 to present
[edit] Election results
[edit] Elections in the 2000s
[edit] Elections in the 1990s
[edit] Elections in the 1980s
[edit] Elections in the 1970s
[edit] Elections in the 1960s
[edit] Elections in the 1950s
[edit] Elections in the 1940s
[edit] Elections in the 1930s
[edit] Elections in the 1920s
[edit] Elections in the 1910s
- was a supporter of the Coalition government
[edit] Elections in the 1900s
[edit] Elections in the 1890s
[edit] Elections in the 1880s
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule
- ^ Fifth Periodical Review, Boundary Commission for Scotland
- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
- ^ [1], UKPollingReport
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/822.stm
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
- ^ Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
- ^ The Times, 8 December 1923
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
- ^ a b c Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
- ^ a b c Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
[edit] See also
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- Airdrie & Shotts
- Angus
- Argyll & Bute
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- Central Ayrshire
- Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill
- Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East
- Dumfries & Galloway
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- Dundee East
- Dundee West
- Dunfermline & West Fife
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow
- East Lothian
- East Renfrewshire
- Edinburgh East
- Edinburgh North & Leith
- Edinburgh South
- Edinburgh South West
- Edinburgh West
- Falkirk
- Glasgow Central
- Glasgow East
- Glasgow North
- Glasgow North East
- Glasgow North West
- Glasgow South
- Glasgow South West
- Glenrothes
- Gordon
- Inverclyde
- Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey
- Kilmarnock & Loudoun
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- Lanark & Hamilton East
- Linlithgow & East Falkirk
- Livingston
- Midlothian
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- Na h-Eileanan an Iar
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- Paisley & Renfrewshire North
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- Perth & North Perthshire
- Ross, Skye & Lochaber
- Rutherglen & Hamilton West
- Stirling
- West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine
- West Dunbartonshire
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Coordinates: 55°56′39″N 3°08′29″W / 55.94415°N 3.1414°W / 55.94415; -3.1414
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