Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Roxburgh and Berwickshire (UK Parliament constituency).

Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Former county constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Roxburgh and Berwickshire shown within the South of Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Former constituency
Created	1999
Abolished	2011
Council area	Scottish Borders
Replaced by	Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire

Roxburgh and Berwickshire was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament until 2011. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the South of 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 eight constituencies of the South of Scotland region are Ayr, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Clydesdale, Cunninghame South, Dumfries, East Lothian, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale and Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale.

The region covers the Dumfries and Galloway council area, the Scottish Borders council area, the South Ayrshire council area, part of the East Ayrshire council area, part of the East Lothian council area, part of the Midlothian council area, part of the North Ayrshire council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area

The Roxburgh and Berwickshire 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, Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.^[1]

The Holyrood constituency covers an eastern portion of the Scottish Borders council area. The rest of the council area is covered by the Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale constituency, which also covers a western portion of the Midlothian council area.

Boundary review

Following its First Periodic review of constituencies to the Scottish Parliament, the Boundary Commission for Scotland has recommended the Roxburgh and Berwickshire seat be expanded to form the newly shaped Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire constituency in time for the 2011 election.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

	Member	Party
1999	Euan Robson	Scottish Liberal Democrats
2003	Euan Robson	Scottish Liberal Democrats
2007	John Lamont	Scottish Conservative Party
2011	constituency abolished: replaced by Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Roxburgh and Berwickshire^[2]
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	%	±%
	Conservative	John Lamont		10,556	41.11	+10.94	8,460	33.33
	Liberal Democrats	N Euan Robson		8,571	33.38	-7.85	5,956	23.47
	SNP	Aileen Orr		4,127	16.07	+3.56	5,317	20.95
	Labour	Mary Lockhart		2,108	8.21	-4.24	3,051	12.02
	Independent	Jesse Rae		318	1.24	+1.24
	Scottish Green						1,065	4.20
	Scottish Senior Citizens						423	1.67
	BNP						268	1.06
	UKIP						224	0.88
	Scottish Christian						148	0.58
	Solidarity						145	0.57
	Socialist Labour						111	0.44
	Scottish Socialist						86	0.34
	Scottish Voice						54	0.21
	Christian Peoples						44	0.17
	Independent - Paddy Scott Hogg						28	0.11
Informal votes				599			899
Total Valid votes				25,680			25,380
Turnout				26,279
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Majority	1,985	7.73

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Euan Robson	9,280	41.2	+0.6
	Conservative	Sandy Scott	6,790	30.2	+2.4
	SNP	Roderick Campbell	2,816	12.5	-4.4
	Labour	Sam Held	2,802	12.5	- 2.2
	Scottish Socialist	Graeme McIver	823	3.7	n/a
Majority			2,490
Turnout			22511
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	0.9 from LD to Con

Scottish Parliament election, 1999: Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Euan Robson	11,320	40.6	n/a
	Conservative	Alasdair Hutton	7,735	27.8	n/a
	SNP	Stuart Crawford	4,719	16.9	n/a
	Labour	Susan McLeod	2,802	14.7	n/a
Majority			3,585		n/a
Turnout			26,500		n/a
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	n/a

References

↑ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland
↑ Sub-constituency election results for the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections - data-Scotland Office, 30 April 2008 (retrieved 5 April 2011)

Electoral regions and Constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2011 » 2011– »

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton North and Bellshill Hamilton South Kilmarnock and Loudoun Motherwell and Wishaw

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Baillieston Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Govan Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Rutherglen Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Springburn

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber Moray Orkney Ross, Skye and Inverness West Shetland Western Isles

Lothians	Edinburgh Central Edinburgh East and Musselburgh Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh South Edinburgh West Linlithgow Livingston Midlothian

Mid Scotland and Fife	Central Fife Dunfermline East Dunfermline West Kirkcaldy North East Fife North Tayside Ochil Perth Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Angus Banff and Buchan Dundee East Dundee West Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

South of Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

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

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