Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (UK Parliament constituency)

Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1983–2005
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk Midlothian Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale
Created from	Roxburgh, Selkirk & Peebles, Berwick & East Lothian and Midlothian[1]

Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983. In 2005 the constituency was abolished and the area is now represented by Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, Midlothian, & Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale.

The Scottish Parliament constituency of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, which covered the same area, was in existence until the Scottish Parliament election, 2011.

Boundaries

Formed for the 1983 election, the seat of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale comprised the majority of the former Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles, with other areas coming in from Berwick and East Lothian and Midlothian. It was formed from the Tweeddale District, and the Ettrick and Lauderdale District.^[2]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[3]	Party
	1983	David Steel	Liberal
	1988		Liberal Democrat
	1997	Michael Moore	Liberal Democrat

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	David Steel	16,868	58.5	N/A
	Conservative	Alistair Ballantyne	8,329	28.9	N/A
	Labour	Michael Arthur John Saren	2,200	7.4	N/A
	SNP	William John Allan Macartney	1,455	5.0	N/A
Majority			8,539	29.6	N/A
Turnout			28,852	77.8	N/A
	Liberal win (new seat)

General Election 1987: Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	David Steel	14,599	49.9	−8.6
	Conservative	Mrs. Constance Shirley Finlay-Maxwell	8,657	29.6	+0.7
	Labour	Neil Glen	3,320	11.4	+4.0
	SNP	Andrew Lumsden	2,660	9.1	+4.1
Majority			5,942	20.3
Turnout			29,236	77.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	−4.7

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	David Steel	12,296	39.9	−10.0
	Conservative	Lloyd Andrew Beat	9,776	31.7	+2.1
	SNP	Christine Creech	5,244	17.0	+7.9
	Labour	Alan Dunton	3,328	10.8	−0.6
	Liberal	John Hein	177	0.6	N/A
Majority			2,520	8.2
Turnout			30,821	78.0
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	Michael Moore	12,178	31.2
	Labour	Keith Taylor Geddes	10,689	27.4
	Conservative	Alister William Jack	8,623	22.1
	SNP	Ian Roy Goldie	6,671	17.1
	Referendum	Christopher Arthur Mowbray	406	1.0	N/A
	Liberal	John Hein	387	1.0
	Natural Law	Duncan John Paterson	47	0.1	N/A
Majority			1,489	3.8
Turnout			39,001	76.3
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	Michael Moore	14,035	42.3	+11.1
	Labour	Keith Taylor Geddes	8,878	26.7	−0.7
	Conservative	Robert Andrew Palles Brocklehurst	5,118	15.4	−6.7
	SNP	Richard Thomson	4,108	12.4	−4.7
	Scottish Socialist	Norman Phillip Macdonald Lockhart	695	2.1	N/A
	Liberal	John Hein	383	1.2	+0.2
Majority			5,157	15.5
Turnout			33,217	63.4	−12.4
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	+5.9

References

1. "'Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
2. Crewe, Ivor (1983). British Parliament constituencies - a statistical compendium. faber and faber. ISBN 0-571-13236-7.
3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
4. Vote 2001: Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, BBC News