Angus South (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with South Angus (UK parliament constituency).

Angus South
county constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Angus South shown within the North East Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	Graeme Dey
Council area	Angus
Created from	Angus, North Tayside

Angus South is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. In addition, it is one of ten constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Electoral region

The other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region are Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen Donside, Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns, Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Dundee City East and Dundee City West.

The region covers all of the Aberdeen City council area, the Aberdeenshire council area, the Angus council area, the Dundee City council area and part of the Moray council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area

Angus is represented by two constituencies in the Scottish Parliament: Angus North and Mearns and Angus South.

The electoral wards used in the creation of Angus South are:

In full: Kirriemuir and Dean, Monifieth and Sidlaw, Carnoustie and District, Arbroath West and Letham, Arbroath East and Lunan

Member of the Scottish Parliament

As Angus

The constituency was represented for its entirety by the Scottish National Party MSP Andrew Welsh.

	Member	Party
1999	Andrew Welsh	Scottish National Party
2003
2007

As Angus South

Election		Member	Party
	2011	Graeme Dey	Scottish National Party
	2016	Graeme Dey	Scottish National Party

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Angus South^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Graeme Dey	15,622	48.9	-9.5
	Conservative	Kirstene Hair	11,318	35.4	+15.3
	Labour	Joanne McFadden	3,773	11.8	-1.6
	Liberal Democrats	Clive Sneddon	1,216	3.8	+0.6
Majority			4,304	13.5	-24.8
Turnout			31,929	56.7	+6.8
	SNP hold		Swing	-12.4

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Angus South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Graeme Dey	16,164	58.5	+11.4
	Conservative	Hughie Campbell Adamson	5,581	20.2	-7.3
	Labour	William Campbell	3,703	13.4	-1.8
	Independent	David Fairweather	1,321	4.8	+4.8
	Liberal Democrats	Clive Sneddon	874	3.2	-7.1
Majority			10,583	38.3	N/A
Turnout			27,643	49.9
	SNP hold		Swing	9.4

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Angus South
Party		Votes	%
	SNP	14,398	47.1
	Conservative	8,391	27.5
	Labour	4,651	15.2
	Liberal Democrats	3,122	10.2
Majority		6,007	19.7
	SNP hold	Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Angus
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Andrew Welsh	15,686	49.1	+4.6
	Conservative	Alex Johnstone	7,443	23.3	+1.3
	Labour	Doug Bradley	5,032	15.7	-0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Scott Rennie	3,799	11.9	-0.9
Majority			8,243	25.8
Turnout			31,960	53.0	+3.8
	SNP hold		Swing

« 1999–2011 « Electoral regions and constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 2011–

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Provan Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Southside Rutherglen

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Ross Inverness and Nairn Moray Na h-Eileanan an Iar Orkney Shetland Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

Lothian	Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh

Mid Scotland and Fife	Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Mid Fife and Glenrothes North East Fife Perthshire North Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen Donside Aberdeen South and North Kincardine Aberdeenshire East Aberdeenshire West Angus North and Mearns Angus South Banffshire and Buchan Coast Dundee City East Dundee City West

South Scotland	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

West Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Cunninghame South Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley Renfrewshire North and West Renfrewshire South Strathkelvin and Bearsden

References

↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/scotland-constituencies/S16000082

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