Dumfries and Galloway
2010 Results:
Conservative: 16501 (31.63%)
Labour: 23950 (45.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 4608 (8.83%)
SNP: 6419 (12.3%)
UKIP: 695 (1.33%)
Majority: 7449 (14.27%)
2005 Results:
Labour: 20924 (41.1%)
Conservative: 18002 (35.4%)
SNP: 6182 (12.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 4259 (8.4%)
Other: 1524 (3%)
Majority: 2922 (5.7%)
Boundary changes prior to 2005 election: Name of seat changed from Galloway and Upper Nithsdale.
2001 Result
Conservative: 12222 (34%)
Labour: 7258 (20.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 3698 (10.3%)
SNP: 12148 (33.8%)
Other: 588 (1.6%)
Majority: 74 (0.2%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 12825 (30.5%)
Labour: 6861 (16.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 2700 (6.4%)
SNP: 18449 (43.9%)
Referendum: 428 (1%)
Other: 755 (1.8%)
Majority: 5624 (13.4%)
No Boundary Changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Russell Brown(Labour) (more information at They work for you)
Peter Duncan (Conservative) MP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale 2001-2005Russell Brown(Labour) (more information at They work for you)Richard Brodie (Liberal Democrat)Andrew Wood (SNP) Bill Wright (UKIP) 2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 95724
Male: 48.1%
Female: 51.9%
Under 18: 22.4%
Over 60: 25.4%
Born outside UK: 2.6%
White: 99.3%
Asian: 0.2%
Mixed: 0.2%
Other: 0.2%
Christian: 69.5%
Graduates 16-74: 17%
No Qualifications 16-74: 39.1%
Owner-Occupied: 64.1%
Social Housing: 21.1% (Council: 17.5%, Housing Ass.: 3.7%)
Privately Rented: 9.8%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 6.9%
The equivalent for this seat in the redrawn Holyrood Parliament in 2011 will be Galloway and Dumfriesshire West. MSP Alex Fergusson has said he will step down as Presiding Officer and seek the Conservative nomination for the new constituency.
This may be somewhat off topic, but any guesses on who the new Presiding Officer will be?
Alex Fergusson should still just hold on under the new boundaries which switch Upper Nithdale (upper Dumfriesshire) for the Western part of the Dumfries conurbation.
With the boundary changes and the recent general election result, it would be hard to imagine the SNP retaining second place in the Holyrood seat.
Conservative: 12500
Labour: 12000
SNP: 8500
Liberal Democrat: 3500
Majority: 500
According to Will Patterson, who kindly worked out some notional figures last year for all 73 seats, the seat would have voted;
Con 12863 40.72%
SNP 9695 30.69%
Lab 7046 22.30%
LD 1675 5.30%
Ind 311 0.98%
Where do you find such notionals?
Who might be the new Presiding Officer at Holyrood next year, now that Alex Fergusson is leaving the Chair (but not the Parliament)?