Angus North and Mearns (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Angus North and Mearns
county constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Angus North and Mearns shown within the North East Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	Mairi Evans
Council area	Angus Aberdeenshire

Angus North and Mearns 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. It is one of ten constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

From the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the seat of Angus was split into two separate constituencies; Angus North and Mearns and Angus South

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 South, 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. Aberdeenshire is represented by four constituencies in the Scottish Parliament: Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns and Banffshire and Buchan Coast.

The electoral wards used in the creation of Angus North and Mearns are:

In full: Mearns, Brechin and Edzell, Forfar and District, Montrose and District
In part: Stonehaven and Lower Deeside (shared with Aberdeenshire West)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	2011	Nigel Don	SNP
	2016	Mairi Evans	SNP

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Angus North and Mearns^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Mairi Evans	13,417	45.7	-9.1
	Conservative	Alex Johnstone	10,945	37.3	+11.7
	Labour	John Ruddy	2,752	9.4	-3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Euan Davidson	2,265	7.7	-0.8
Majority			2,472	8.4
Turnout				54.1
	SNP hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Angus North and Mearns
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Nigel Don	13,660	54.8	+11.4
	Conservative	Alex Johnstone	6,374	25.6	+3.1
	Labour	Kevin Hutchens	3,160	12.7	-0.6
	Liberal Democrats	Sanjay Samani	1,726	6.9	-13.9
Majority			7,286	29.2
Turnout			24,920	47.4
	SNP hold		Swing	4.1%

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Angus North and Mearns
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP		10,194	43.4
	Conservative		5,278	22.5
	Liberal Democrats		4,888	20.8
	Labour		3,114	13.3
Majority			4,916	20.9
	SNP hold		Swing

The following table is the election results for the former constituency of Angus.

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/S16000081

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