Perthshire North (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Perth and North Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency).

Perthshire North
county constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Perthshire North shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	John Swinney
Council area	Perth and Kinross
Created from	North Tayside, Perth

Perthshire North is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, it is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife 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.

For the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the old constituency of Perth was abolished and replaced by Perthshire North and Perthshire South and Kinross-shire.

Electoral region

The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, North East Fife, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire and Stirling.

The region covers all of the Clackmannanshire council area, all of the Fife council area, all of the Perth and Kinross council area and all of the Stirling council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area

The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of a pre-existing Westminster (House of Commons) constituency. The area has been covered by Westminster constituencies with differing names but similar boundaries since 1918, but in 2005 Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.^[1] Most of the Perth Westminster constituency was merged into Ochil and South Perthshire. Part, including the town of Perth, was merged into Perth and North Perthshire.

Perth and Kinross is represented in the Scottish Parliament by two constituencies, Perthshire North and Perthshire South and Kinross-shire.

The electoral wards used in Perthshire North are:

Carse of Gowrie, Strathmore, Blairgowrie and Glens, Highland, Strathtay, Perth City Centre

Member of the Scottish Parliament

As North Tayside

John Swinney has represented the constituency for the SNP since the first Scottish election in 1999. He is the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, and was SNP leader from 2000 to 2004.

	Member	Party
1999	John Swinney	Scottish National Party
2003
2007

As Perthshire North

Election		Member	Party
	2011	John Swinney	Scottish National Party
	2016	John Swinney	Scottish National Party

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016 : Perthshire North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	John Swinney	16,526	48.6	-12.2
	Conservative	Murdo Fraser	13,190	38.8	+12.5
	Labour	Anna McEwan	2,604	7.7	-1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Barrett	1,750	5.0	+1.0
Majority			3,336	9.8
	SNP hold		Swing	-12.4

Scottish Parliamentary election, 2011

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Perthshire North^[2]^[3]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Y John Swinney		18,219	60.83	+10.48	15,908	52.89
	Conservative	Murdo Fraser		7,866	26.26	-2.59	7,491	24.91
	Labour	Pete Cheema		2,672	8.92	+0.42	2,690	8.94
	Liberal Democrats	Victor Clements		1,196	3.99	-7.81	1,121	3.73
	Scottish Green						1,359	4.52
	Scottish Senior Citizens						440	1.46
	UKIP						334	1.11
	BNP						187	0.62
	Scottish Christian						110	0.37
	Socialist Labour						97	0.32
	Christian Peoples						88	0.29
	Scottish Socialist						74	0.25
	Independent - Andrew Rodger						42	0.14
	Solidarity						17	0.06
Informal votes				117			117
Total Valid votes				29,953			30,075
	SNP hold		Majority	10,353	34.56

Scottish Liberal Democrats polled under 5% and thus lost their deposit

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Perthshire North
Party		Votes	%
	SNP	15,318	50.3
	Conservative	8,776	28.8
	Liberal Democrats	3,590	11.8
	Labour	2,585	8.5
	Others	155	0.5
Majority		6,542	21.5
	SNP hold	Swing

Footnotes

↑ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland
↑ Scottish Parliamentary election results 2011-Perth and Kinross Council; retrieved 14.05.2011
↑ Mid Scotland and Fife Regional Results 2011-Perth and Kinross Council; retrieved 14.05.2011

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

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