Argyll and Bute (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Argyll and Bute | |
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County constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
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![]() Argyll and Bute shown within the Highlands and Islands electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
Population | 60,394 (2019)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1999 |
Party | Scottish National Party |
MSP | Jenni Minto |
Council area | Argyll and Bute |
Argyll and Bute (Gaelic: Earra-Ghàidheal agus Bòd) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering most of the council area of Argyll and Bute. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the eight constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
The seat has been held by Jenni Minto of the Scottish National Party since the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.
Electoral region
[edit]The Argyll and Bute constituency is part of the Highlands and Islands electoral region; the other seven constituencies are Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Inverness and Nairn, Moray, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Orkney, Shetland and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.
The region covers most of Argyll and Bute council area, all of the Highland council area, most of the Moray council area, all of the Orkney Islands council area, all of the Shetland Islands council area and all of Na h-Eileanan Siar.
Constituency boundaries and council area
[edit]The Argyll and Bute constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency was enlarged slightly.[2]
The Holyrood constituency covers most of the Argyll and Bute council area. The rest of the council area (which includes the town of Helensburgh) is covered by the Dumbarton constituency in the West Scotland electoral region. The Argyll and Bute Westminster constituency has covered the whole of the council area since 2005.
From the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, boundary changes altered the existing Argyll and Bute constituency. All but three electoral wards of the Argyll and Bute council area were used in the creation of the new seat, namely:
- Cowal, Dunoon, Isle of Bute, Kintyre and the Islands, Mid Argyll, Oban North and Lorn, Oban South and the Isles, South Kintyre.
As of 2019, Argyll and Bute's population (60,394) was the lowest among the 70 Holyrood mainland constituencies, barely two-thirds of the total of those at the top of the list, headed by Linlithgow which had over 95,000 within its boundaries.[1]
Member of the Scottish Parliament
[edit]Election | Member | Party | |
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1999 | George Lyon | Liberal Democrats | |
2007 | Jim Mather | Scottish National Party | |
2011 | Michael Russell | ||
2021 | Jenni Minto |
Election results
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/ArgyllBute_1999-2021.png/700px-ArgyllBute_1999-2021.png)
2020s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
SNP | Jenni Minto | 16,608 | 49.5 | ![]() |
13,966 | 41.5 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Donald Cameron[a][b] | 7,645 | 22.8 | ![]() |
8,563 | 25.5 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Alan Reid | 6,874 | 20.5 | ![]() |
3,659 | 10.9 | ![]() | |
Labour | Lewis Whyte | 2,436 | 7.3 | ![]() |
2,829 | 8.4 | ![]() | |
Scottish Green | 2,661 | 7.9 | ![]() | |||||
Alba | 589 | 1.8 | New | |||||
Independent | Andy Wightman[c] | 423 | 1.3 | New | ||||
All for Unity | 290 | 0.9 | New | |||||
Scottish Family | 189 | 0.6 | New | |||||
Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 113 | 0.3 | New | |||||
Freedom Alliance (UK) | 67 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Reform UK | 63 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Scottish Libertarian | 60 | 0.2 | New | |||||
UKIP | 59 | 0.2 | ![]() | |||||
Restore Scotland | 36 | 0.1 | New | |||||
TUSC | 32 | 0.1 | New | |||||
Independent | Hazel Mansfield | 29 | 0.1 | New | ||||
Majority | 8,963 | 26.7 | ![]() |
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Valid Votes | 33,563 | 33,628 | ||||||
Invalid Votes | 165 | 84 | ||||||
Turnout | 33,728 | 67.8 | ![]() |
33,712 | 67.8 | ![]() | ||
SNP hold | Swing | ![]() |
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Notes
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2010s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
SNP | Michael Russell[a] | 13,561 | 46.0 | ![]() |
12,327 | 41.7 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Alan Reid | 7,583 | 25.7 | ![]() |
3,856 | 13.0 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Donald Cameron | 5,840 | 19.8 | ![]() |
7,151 | 24.2 | ![]() | |
Labour | Mick Rice | 2,492 | 8.5 | ![]() |
2,739 | 9.3 | ![]() | |
Scottish Green | 2,213 | 7.5 | ![]() | |||||
UKIP | 679 | 2.3 | ![]() | |||||
Scottish Christian | 193 | 0.7 | ![]() | |||||
Solidarity | 162 | 0.5 | ![]() | |||||
Independent | James Stockan | 153 | 0.5 | New | ||||
RISE | 86 | 0.3 | New | |||||
Majority | 5,978 | 20.3 | ![]() |
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Valid Votes | 29,476 | 29,559 | ||||||
Invalid Votes | 116 | 36 | ||||||
Turnout | 29,592 | 61.0 | ![]() |
29,295 | 61.0 | ![]() | ||
SNP hold | Swing | ![]() |
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Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
SNP | Michael Russell[a] | 13,390 | 50.6 | N/A | 13,172 | 49.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | Jamie McGrigor[a] | 4,847 | 18.3 | N/A | 4,156 | 15.6 | N/A | |
Labour | Mick Rice | 4,041 | 15.3 | N/A | 3,804 | 14.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Alison Hay | 3,220 | 12.2 | N/A | 2,155 | 8.1 | N/A | |
Scottish Green | 1,304 | 4.9 | N/A | |||||
Independent | George Doyle | 542 | 2.0 | N/A | ||||
All-Scotland Pensioners Party | 436 | 1.6 | N/A | |||||
UKIP | 362 | 1.4 | N/A | |||||
Liberal | George White | 436 | 1.6 | N/A | 247 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Scottish Christian | 231 | 0.9 | N/A | |||||
Socialist Labour | 204 | 0.8 | N/A | |||||
Ban Bankers Bonuses | 198 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
BNP | 183 | 0.9 | N/A | |||||
Scottish Socialist | 95 | 0.4 | N/A | |||||
Solidarity | 50 | 0.2 | N/A | |||||
Majority | 8,543 | 32.3 | N/A | |||||
Valid Votes | 26,476 | 26,597 | ||||||
Invalid Votes | 120 | 61 | ||||||
Turnout | 26,596 | 54.4 | N/A | 26,658 | 54.5 | N/A | ||
SNP win (new boundaries) | ||||||||
Notes
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2000s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Jim Mather | 9,944 | 34.5 | +14.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | George Lyon | 9,129 | 31.7 | −3.4 | |
Conservative | Jamie McGrigor | 5,571 | 19.4 | −0.7 | |
Labour | Mary Galbraith | 4,148 | 14.4 | −3.9 | |
Majority | 815 | 2.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,792 | 58.9 | +1.1 | ||
SNP gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +9.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | George Lyon | 9,817 | 35.1 | +0.2 | |
Conservative | Dave Petrie | 5,621 | 20.1 | +3.6 | |
SNP | Jim Mather | 5,485 | 19.6 | −8.9 | |
Labour | Hugh Raven | 5,107 | 18.3 | −1.8 | |
Scottish Socialist | Des Divers | 1,667 | 5.9 | New | |
Scottish People's | David Walker | 251 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 4,196 | 15.0 | +8.6 | ||
Turnout | 27,948 | 57.8 | −7.0 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
1990s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Liberal Democrats | George Lyon | 11,226 | 34.9 | ||
SNP | Duncan Hamilton | 9,169 | 28.5 | ||
Labour | Hugh Raven | 6,470 | 20.1 | ||
Conservative | David Petrie | 5,312 | 16.5 | ||
Majority | 2,057 | 6.4 | |||
Turnout | 32,177 | 64.8 | |||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Scottish Parliamentary Constituency (SPC) Population Estimates (2011 Data Zone based), National Records of Scotland; retrieved 6 May 2021 (accompanying summary notes)
- ^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Scottish Parliamentary Election 6 May 2021 - Results". Argyll and Bute Council. 6 May 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Declaration of Constituency Result" (PDF). Argyll and Bute Council. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Declaration of Regional Result" (PDF). Argyll and Bute Council. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Result of Scottish Parliament election - Highlands and Islands region". Argyll and Bute Council. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Result of election to Scottish Parliament". Argyll and Bute Council. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
External links
[edit]- "Argyll and Bute constituency map" (PDF). Boundaries Scotland. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
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