Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions from 2011

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As a result of the first periodical review of Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) constituencies, ^[1], new constituencies and additional member regions of the Scottish Parliament are to be introduced for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election. The D'Hondt method will be used, as previously, in the allocation of additional member seats.

The Boundary Commission for Scotland began the review as announced on 3 July 2007^[2], and provisional proposals were published on Thursday 14 February 2008^[3].

The Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004 requires the commission to review boundaries of all constituencies except Orkney and Shetland (which cover, respectively, the Orkney Islands council area and the Shetland Islands council area) so that the area covered by the reviewed constituencies will continue to be covered by a total of 71 constituencies.

The Orkney and Shetland constituencies are to be taken into account, however, in review of boundaries of the additional member regions.

Final recommendations are to follow public consultations and a series of local inquiries, and the terms of the 2004 act require final recommendations to be submitted in a report to the Secretary of State for Scotland not later than 30 June 2010.

Boundary changes

Main article: First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries

For the purposes of the review the Boundary Commission for Scotland must take into account the boundaries of the local government council areas. In order to do this some council areas were grouped together, the largest of these groupings of provisional proposals consisted of four of Scotland's 32 council areas the smallest only containing one. Constituencies created in 1999 were based on Scottish Westminster constituencies that were created in 1997 and they in turn were based on the boundaries of local government regions and districts and islands areas that existed at the time but since have been abolished and replaced with the council areas.

Following their proposal processes the Commission published their Final Recommendations. All the review processes were completed with the outlined constituencies below no longer due for alteration.

Proposed constituencies

Constituency	Council area or areas	Additional members region
Aberdeen Central (part of Aberdeen City council area)
Aberdeen Donside (part of Aberdeen City council area)
Aberdeen South and North Kincardine
Aberdeenshire East
Aberdeenshire West
Airdrie and Shotts,
Almond Valley
Angus North and Mearns
Angus South
Argyll and Bute
Ayr (part of South Ayrshire council area)
Banffshire and Buchan Coast
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley
Clackmannanshire and Dunblane (Clackmannanshire council area and part of Stirling council area
Clydebank and Milngavie
Clydesdale (South Lanarkshire Council area)
Coatbridge and Chryston
Cowdenbeath
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth
Cunninghame North
Cunninghame South
Dumbarton
Dumfriesshire
Dunfermline
Dundee City East
Dundee City West
East Kilbride
East Lothian (part of East Lothian council area),
Eastwood (parts of East Renfrewshire council area)
Edinburgh Central
Edinburgh Eastern
Edinburgh Northern and Leith
Edinburgh Pentlands
Edinburgh Southern
Edinburgh Western
Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Falkirk East
Falkirk West
Galloway and West Dumfries
Glasgow Anniesland
Glasgow Cathcart
Glasgow Kelvin
Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn
Glasgow Pollok
Glasgow Provan
Glasgow Shettleston
Glasgow Southside
Greenock and Inverclyde (part of Inverclyde council area)|
Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse
Inverness and Nairn
Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley
Kirkcaldy
Linlithgow
Midlothian North and Musselburgh
Midlothian South, Tweedale and Lauderdale
Mid Fife and Glenrothes
Motherwell and Wishaw
Moray
Na h-Eileanan an Iar
North East Fife
Orkney
Paisley (part of Renfrewshire council area)
Perthshire North
Perthshire South and Kinross-shire
Renfrewshire North and West (parts of Inverclyde council area and parts of Renfrewshire council area)
Renfrewshire South (parts of East Renfrewshire council area and Renfrewshire council area)
Rutherglen
Shetland
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch
Stirling (part of Stirling council area)
Strathkelvin and Bearsden
Uddingston and Bellshill

Electoral regions

The Boundary Commission have also recommended changes to the electoral regions used to elect "list" members of the Scottish Parliament. The recommendations ^[4] can be summarised below;

Region	Constituencies	map
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	Anniesland Cathcart Kelvin Maryhill and Springburn Pollok Provan Shettleston 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

1. ^ First Periodical Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries, Boundary Commission for Scotland website, accessed 20 December 2008
2. ^ Review of Constituencies at the Scottish Parliament, news release, Boundary Commission for Scotland website
3. ^ Provisional proposals for constituencies for the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Office news release, Boundary Commission for Scotland website
4. ^ Revised Recommendations Boundary Commission for Scotland]

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