South of Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

South of Scotland Scottish Parliament electoral region

The South of Scotland region shown within Scotland
Created 1999
Abolished 2011
Constituencies Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
Council areas East Ayrshire (part) East Lothian (part) Dumfries and Galloway Midlothian (part) North Ayrshire (part) Scottish Borders South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire (part)

South of Scotland was one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament when it was created in 1999. The region was replaced with South Scotland in 2011 following a review.^[1]

Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies were sub-divisions of the region and it elected seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elected a total of 16 MSPs.

The region had boundaries with the West of Scotland, Central Scotland and Lothians regions.

Constituencies and council areas

The constituencies were created in 1999 with the names and boundaries of Westminster constituencies, as existing in at that time.^[2] They cover all of three council areas,^[3] the Scottish Borders council area, the Dumfries and Galloway council area and the South Ayrshire council area, and parts of five others, the East Ayrshire council area, the East Lothian council area, the Midlothian council area, the North Ayrshire council area and the South Lanarkshire council area:

Constituency	Map
Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

The rest of the East Ayrshire council area is within the Central Scotland electoral region, the rest of the East Lothian and Midlothian council areas are within the Lothians region, the rest of the North Ayrshire council area is within the West of Scotland region and the rest of the South Lanarkshire council area is divided between the Central Scotland and Glasgow regions.

Members of the Scottish Parliament

Constituency MSPs

Term	Election	Ayr		Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley		Clydesdale		Galloway and Upper Nithsdale		Dumfries		Roxburgh and Berwickshire		Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale		East Lothian		Cunninghame South
1st	1999	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"\|	Ian Welsh (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="4" \|	Cathy Jamieson (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="4" \|	Karen Gillon (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="2" \|	Alasdair Morgan (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="4" \|	Elaine Murray (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" rowspan="3" \|	Euan Robson (LD)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" rowspan="4" \|	Ian Jenkins (LD)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="4" \|	John Home Robertson (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="4" \|	Irene Oldfather (Labour)
1st	2000 by	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color"\|	John Scott (Conservative)						Alasdair Morgan (SNP)						Ian Jenkins (LD)
2nd	2003	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="2" \|		bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="2" \|		Alex Fergusson (Conservative)		Jeremy Purvis (LD)
3rd	2007	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color"\|		John Lamont (Conservative)		Alex Fergusson (Conservative)		Jeremy Purvis (LD)	Iain Gray (Labour)

Regional List MSPs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

Parliament	MSP		MSP		MSP		MSP		MSP		MSP		MSP
1st (1999–2003)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="4"\|	Christine Grahame (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="4"\|	Adam Ingram (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="4"\|	Michael Russell (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color"\|	Alex Fergusson (Conservative)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color"\|	Murray Tosh (Conservative)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="1"\|	David Mundell (Conservative)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="3"\|	Phil Gallie (Conservative)
2nd (2003–07)	Alasdair Morgan (SNP)		bgcolor="Template:Scottish Socialist Party/meta/color" rowspan="1"\|		Rosemary Byrne (Socialist)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Green Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"\|	Chris Ballance (Green)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"\|				David Mundell (Conservative)
2nd (2003–07)			bgcolor="Template:Solidarity (Scotland)/meta/color" rowspan="1"\|		Rosemary Byrne (Socialist)	Derek Brownlee (Conservative)	Chris Ballance (Green)
3rd (2007–11)			bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"\|		Michael Russell (SNP)	Derek Brownlee (Conservative)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"\|	Aileen Campbell (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color"\|	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color"\|	Jim Hume (Lib Dem)

Election results

2007 Scottish Parliament election

In the 2007 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

5 Labour MSPs (all constituency members)
5 Scottish National Party MSPs (all additional members)
4 Conservative MSP (three constituency members and one additional member)
2 Liberal Democrat MSP (one constituency member and one additional member)

Constituency results

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Additional member results

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|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Labour | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 79,762 | style="text-align:right;" | 28.8 | style="text-align:right;" | -1.2 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | SNP | style="text-align:left;" | Christine Grahame
Michael Russell
Adam Ingram
Alasdair Morgan
Aileen Campbell | style="text-align:center;" | 5 | style="text-align:center;" | +2 | style="text-align:right;" | 77,053 | style="text-align:right;" | 27.8 | style="text-align:right;" | +9.4 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Conservative | style="text-align:left;" | Derek Brownlee | style="text-align:center;" | 1 | style="text-align:center;" | -1 | style="text-align:right;" | 62,475 | style="text-align:right;" | 22.6 | style="text-align:right;" | -1.7 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Liberal Democrats | style="text-align:left;" | Jim Hume | style="text-align:center;" | 1 | style="text-align:center;" | +1 | style="text-align:right;" | 28,040 | style="text-align:right;" | 10.1 | style="text-align:right;" | -0.1 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #00B140; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Green | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | -1 | style="text-align:right;" | 9,254 | style="text-align:right;" | 3.3 | style="text-align:right;" | -2.4 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #CC66CC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Senior Citizens | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 5,335 | style="text-align:right;" | 1.9 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #a22f32; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Solidarity | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 3,433 | style="text-align:right;" | 1.2 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #2e3b74; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | BNP | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 3,212 | style="text-align:right;" | 1.2 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #9966CC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Christian | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 2,353 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.8 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #EE1C25; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Socialist Labour | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 1,633 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.6 | style="text-align:right;" | -0.6 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #6D3177; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | UKIP | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 1,429 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.5 | style="text-align:right;" | -0.2 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #ff0000; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Socialist | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | -1 | style="text-align:right;" | 1,114 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.4 | style="text-align:right;" | -5.0 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #813887; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | CPA | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 839 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.3 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #660099; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Voice | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 490 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.2 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Independent | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 488 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.2 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

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2003 Scottish Parliament election

In the 2003 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

5 Labour MSPs (all constituency members)
4 Conservative MSP (two constituency members and two additional members)
3 Scottish National Party MSPs (all additional members)
2 Liberal Democrat MSPs (both constituency members)
1 Scottish Green Party MSP (additional member)
1 Scottish Socialist Party MSP (additional member)

Constituency results

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Additional member results

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|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Labour | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 78,955 | style="text-align:right;" | 30.0 | style="text-align:right;" | -1.0 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Conservative | style="text-align:left;" | Phil Gallie
David Mundell | style="text-align:center;" | 2 | style="text-align:center;" | −1 | style="text-align:right;" | 63,827 | style="text-align:right;" | 24.2 | style="text-align:right;" | +2.6 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | SNP | style="text-align:left;" | Christine Grahame
Adam Ingram
Alasdair Morgan | style="text-align:center;" | 3 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 48,371 | style="text-align:right;" | 18.4 | style="text-align:right;" | -6.7 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Liberal Democrats | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 27,026 | style="text-align:right;" | 10.3 | style="text-align:right;" | -1.7 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #00B140; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Green | style="text-align:left;" | Chris Ballance | style="text-align:center;" | 1 | style="text-align:center;" | +1 | style="text-align:right;" | 15,062 | style="text-align:right;" | 5.7 | style="text-align:right;" | +2.7 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #ff0000; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Socialist | style="text-align:left;" | Rosemary Byrne | style="text-align:center;" | 1 | style="text-align:center;" | +1 | style="text-align:right;" | 14,228 | style="text-align:right;" | 5.4 | style="text-align:right;" | +4.4 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #BBD9DB; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Pensioners | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 9,082 | style="text-align:right;" | 3.4 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #EE1C25; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Socialist Labour | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 3,054 | style="text-align:right;" | 1.2 | style="text-align:right;" | -3.2 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #6D3177; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | UKIP | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 1,889 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.7 | style="text-align:right;" | +0.2 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #87cefa; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish People's | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 1,436 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.5 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

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Changes

Derek Brownlee replaced David Mundell. Mundell resigned as an MSP in June 2005 following his election to Westminster in the 2005 general election. Brownlee was next on the Conservative list.
Rosemary Byrne resigned from the Scottish Socialist Party in September 2006 and now sits as a member of Solidarity.

1999 Scottish Parliament election

In the 1999 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

6 Labour MSPs (all constituency members)
4 Scottish National Party MSPs (one constituency member and three additional members)
4 Conservative MSPs (all additional members)
2 Liberal Democrat MSPs (both constituency members)

Constituency results

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On 21 December 1999 Ian Welsh resigned, citing family reasons. He was the first MSP to resign, and as of 2005 remains the shortest serving MSP serving 230 days. At the subsequent Ayr by-election in 2000, John Scott won the seat for the Conservatives.

Additional member results

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|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Labour | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 98,836 | style="text-align:right;" | 31.0 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | SNP | style="text-align:left;" | Michael Russell
Adam Ingram
Christine Creech | style="text-align:center;" | 3 | style="text-align:center;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 80,059 | style="text-align:right;" | 25.1 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Conservative | style="text-align:left;" | Phil Gallie
Alex Fergusson
Murray Tosh
David Mundell | style="text-align:center;" | 4 | style="text-align:center;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 68,904 | style="text-align:right;" | 21.6 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Liberal Democrats | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 38,157 | style="text-align:right;" | 12.0 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #EE1C25; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Socialist Labour | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 13,887 | style="text-align:right;" | 4.4 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #00B140; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Green | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 9,467 | style="text-align:right;" | 3.0 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #EB7A43; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Liberal | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 3,478 | style="text-align:right;" | 1.1 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #ff0000; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Socialist | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 3,304 | style="text-align:right;" | 1.0 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #6D3177; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | UKIP | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 1,502 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.5 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #ffe4e1; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Natural Law | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 755 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.2 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

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Notes and references

^ "Boundary Commission for Scotland - First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries". www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
^ Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies in 2005. See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Council areas are as defined in 1996, and may be subject to change after the next Scottish Parliament election.

[1] "Boundary Commission for Scotland - First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries". www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

[2] Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies in 2005. See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.

[3] Council areas are as defined in 1996, and may be subject to change after the next Scottish Parliament election.

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Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton North and Bellshill Hamilton South Kilmarnock and Loudoun Motherwell and Wishaw
Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Baillieston Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Govan Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Rutherglen Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Springburn
Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber Moray Na h-Eileanan an Iar Orkney Ross, Skye and Inverness West Shetland
Lothians	Edinburgh Central Edinburgh East and Musselburgh Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh South Edinburgh West Linlithgow Livingston Midlothian
Mid Scotland and Fife	Central Fife Dunfermline East Dunfermline West Kirkcaldy North East Fife North Tayside Ochil Perth Stirling
North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Angus Banff and Buchan Dundee East Dundee West Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
South of Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
West of Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley North Paisley South Strathkelvin and Bearsden West Renfrewshire