# Scottish Westminster constituencies from 2005

As a result of the Fifth Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, Scotland is covered by 59 constituencies of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament: 19 burgh constituencies and 40 county constituencies. These constituencies were used from the 2005 to the 2019 general elections, and will be replaced by new constituencies at the next election.
| Name | Current boundaries |
| Aberdeen North BC Aberdeen South BC Airdrie and Shotts CC* Angus CC Argyll and Bute CC Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock CC Banff and Buchan CC Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk CC Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross CC Central Ayrshire CC* Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill BC* Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East CC* Dumfries and Galloway CC Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale CC Dundee East BC Dundee West BC Dunfermline and West Fife CC East Dunbartonshire CC* East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow CC* East Lothian CC East Renfrewshire CC* Edinburgh East BC* Edinburgh North and Leith BC* Edinburgh South BC* Edinburgh South West BC* Edinburgh West BC* Falkirk CC* Glasgow Central BC* Glasgow East BC* Glasgow North BC* Glasgow North East BC* Glasgow North West BC* Glasgow South BC* Glasgow South West BC* Glenrothes CC* Gordon CC Inverclyde CC* Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey CC Kilmarnock and Loudoun CC* Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath CC* Lanark and Hamilton East CC* Linlithgow and East Falkirk CC* Livingston CC* Midlothian CC* Moray CC Motherwell and Wishaw BC* Na h-Eileanan an Iar CC North Ayrshire and Arran CC North East Fife CC Ochil and South Perthshire CC Orkney and Shetland CC Paisley and Renfrewshire North CC* Paisley and Renfrewshire South CC* Perth and North Perthshire CC Ross, Skye and Lochaber CC Rutherglen and Hamilton West BC * Stirling CC West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine CC West Dunbartonshire CC* | Parliamentary constituencies in Scotland |

## Constituencies and council areas

The Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland related the boundaries of new constituencies to those of Scottish local government council areas and to local government wards. Apart from a few minor adjustments, the council area boundaries dated from 1996 and the ward boundaries dated from 1999. Some council areas were grouped to form larger areas and, within these larger areas, some constituencies straddle council area boundaries.
The same council area and ward boundaries were in use when the new constituencies were first used in 2005, but ward boundaries have changed since then. New wards were introduced for the 2007 Scottish local government elections.
| Council areas | Constituencies |
| Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire | Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Banff and Buchan Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine |
| Angus and Dundee | Angus Dundee East Dundee West |
| Argyll and Bute | Argyll and Bute |
| Edinburgh | Edinburgh East Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh South Edinburgh South West Edinburgh West |
| Clackmannanshire and Perth and Kinross | Ochil and South Perthshire Perth and North Perthshire |
| Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders and South Lanarkshire | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Dumfries and Galloway Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow Lanark and Hamilton East Rutherglen and Hamilton West |
| East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock Central Ayrshire Kilmarnock and Loudoun North Ayrshire and Arran |
| East Dunbartonshire and North Lanarkshire | Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East East Dunbartonshire Motherwell and Wishaw |
| East Lothian | East Lothian |
| East Renfrewshire | East Renfrewshire |
| Falkirk and West Lothian | Falkirk Linlithgow and East Falkirk Livingston |
| Fife | Dunfermline and West Fife Glenrothes Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath North East Fife |
| Glasgow | Glasgow Central Glasgow East Glasgow North Glasgow North East Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West |
| Highland | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Ross, Skye and Lochaber |
| Inverclyde | Inverclyde |
| Midlothian | Midlothian |
| Moray | Moray |
| Na h-Eileanan Siar | Na h-Eileanan an Iar |
| Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands | Orkney and Shetland |
| Renfrewshire | Paisley and Renfrewshire North Paisley and Renfrewshire South |
| Stirling | Stirling |
| West Dunbartonshire | West Dunbartonshire |

## Current MPs

Scottish National Party  Conservative  Labour  Liberal Democrats  Alba
| Name | Electorate | Majority | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition |
| Aberdeen North BC | 62,489 | 12,670 | Kirsty Blackman | Ryan Houghton |
| Aberdeen South BC | 65,719 | 3,990 | Stephen Flynn | Douglas Lumsden |
| Airdrie and Shotts CC | 64,011 | 1,757 | Anum Qaisar | Kenneth Stevenson |
| Angus CC | 63,952 | 3,795 | Dave Doogan | Kirstene Hair |
| Argyll and Bute CC | 66,525 | 4,110 | Brendan O'Hara | Gary Mulvaney |
| Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock CC | 71,970 | 2,329 | Allan Dorans | Martin Dowey |
| Banff and Buchan CC | 66,655 | 4,118 | David Duguid | Paul Robertson |
| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk CC | 74,518 | 5,148 | John Lamont | Calum Kerr |
| Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross CC | 46,930 | 204 | Jamie Stone | Karl Rosie |
| Central Ayrshire CC | 69,742 | 5,304 | Philippa Whitford | Derek Stillie |
| Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill BC | 72,943 | 5,624 | Steven Bonnar | Hugh Gaffney |
| Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East CC | 66,079 | 12,976 | Stuart McDonald | James McPhilemy |
| Dumfries and Galloway CC | 74,580 | 1,805 | Alister Jack | Richard Arkless |
| Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale CC | 68,330 | 3,781 | David Mundell | Amanda Burgauer |
| Dundee East BC | 66,210 | 13,375 | Stewart Hosie | Phillip Scott |
| Dundee West BC | 64,431 | 12,259 | Chris Law | Jim Malone |
| Dunfermline and West Fife CC | 76,652 | 10,669 | Douglas Chapman | Cara Hilton |
| East Dunbartonshire CC | 66,075 | 149 | Amy Callaghan | Jo Swinson |
| East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow CC | 81,224 | 13,322 | Lisa Cameron | Monique McAdams |
| East Lothian CC | 81,600 | 3,886 | Kenny MacAskill | Martin Whitfield |
| East Renfrewshire CC | 72,232 | 5,425 | Kirsten Oswald | Paul Masterton |
| Edinburgh East BC | 69,424 | 10,417 | Tommy Sheppard | Sheila Gilmore |
| Edinburgh North and Leith BC | 81,336 | 12,808 | Deidre Brock | Gordon Munro |
| Edinburgh South BC | 66,188 | 11,095 | Ian Murray | Catriona McDonald |
| Edinburgh South West BC | 73,501 | 11,982 | Joanna Cherry | Callum Laidlaw |
| Edinburgh West BC | 72,507 | 3,769 | Christine Jardine | Sarah Masson |
| Falkirk CC | 84,472 | 14,948 | John McNally | Lynn Munro |
| Glasgow Central BC | 69,230 | 6,474 | Alison Thewliss | Faten Hameed |
| Glasgow East BC | 67,381 | 5,556 | David Linden | Kate Watson |
| Glasgow North BC | 57,130 | 5,601 | Patrick Grady | Pam Duncan-Glancy |
| Glasgow North East BC | 61,075 | 2,458 | Anne McLaughlin | Paul Sweeney |
| Glasgow North West BC | 63,402 | 8,359 | Carol Monaghan | Patricia Ferguson |
| Glasgow South BC | 70,891 | 9,005 | Stewart McDonald | Johann Lamont |
| Glasgow South West BC | 64,575 | 4,900 | Chris Stephens | Matt Kerr |
| Glenrothes CC | 65,762 | 11,757 | Peter Grant | Pat Egan |
| Gordon CC | 79,629 | 819 | Richard Thomson | Colin Clark |
| Inverclyde CC | 60,622 | 7,512 | Ronnie Cowan | Martin McCluskey |
| Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey CC | 78,059 | 10,440 | Drew Hendry | Fiona Fawcett |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun CC | 74,517 | 12,659 | Alan Brown | Caroline Hollins |
| Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath CC | 72,853 | 1,243 | Neale Hanvey | Lesley Laird |
| Lanark and Hamilton East CC | 77,659 | 5,187 | Angela Crawley | Shona Haslam |
| Linlithgow and East Falkirk CC | 87,044 | 11,266 | Martyn Day | Charles Kennedy |
| Livingston CC | 82,285 | 13,435 | Hannah Bardell | Damian Timson |
| Midlothian CC | 70,544 | 5,705 | Owen Thompson | Danielle Rowley |
| Moray CC | 71,035 | 413 | Douglas Ross | Laura Mitchell |
| Motherwell and Wishaw BC | 68,856 | 6,268 | Marion Fellows | Angela Feeney |
| Na h-Eileanan an Iar CC | 21,106 | 2,538 | Angus MacNeil | Alison McCorquodale |
| North Ayrshire and Arran | 73,534 | 8,521 | Patricia Gibson | David Rocks |
| North East Fife CC | 60,905 | 1,316 | Wendy Chamberlain | Stephen Gethins |
| Ochil and South Perthshire CC | 78,776 | 4,498 | John Nicolson | Luke Graham |
| Orkney and Shetland CC | 34,211 | 2,507 | Alistair Carmichael | Robert Leslie |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire North CC | 72,007 | 11,902 | Gavin Newlands | Alison Taylor |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire South CC | 64,385 | 10,679 | Mhairi Black | Moira Ramage |
| Perth and North Perthshire CC | 72,600 | 7,550 | Pete Wishart | Angus Forbes |
| Ross, Skye and Lochaber CC | 54,230 | 9,443 | Ian Blackford | Craig Harrow |
| Rutherglen and Hamilton West BC | 80,918 | 9,446 | Michael Shanks | Katy Loudon |
| Stirling CC | 68,473 | 9,254 | Alyn Smith | Stephen Kerr |
| West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine CC | 72,640 | 843 | Andrew Bowie | Fergus Mutch |
| West Dunbartonshire CC | 66,517 | 9,553 | Martin Docherty-Hughes | Jean-Anne Mitchell |
The aggregate votes of all Scottish constituencies for the 2019 general election are as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
| Scottish National Party | 1,242,380 | 45.0% | 8.1% | 48 | 13 |
| Conservative | 692,939 | 25.1% | 3.5% | 6 | 7 |
| Labour | 511,838 | 18.6% | 8.5% | 1 | 6 |
| Liberal Democrats | 263,417 | 9.5% | 2.7% | 4 | 0 |
| Greens | 28,122 | 1.0% | 0.8% | 0 | 0 |
| Brexit | 13,243 | 0.5% | new | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 7,122 | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2,759,061 | 100.0 | | 59 | |

## List of constituencies by party

2019 United Kingdom general election :
| Party | Constituency |
| Alba | East Lothian Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath |
| Conservative | Banff and Buchan Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Dumfries and Galloway Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow Moray West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine |
| Labour | Edinburgh South Rutherglen and Hamilton West |
| Liberal Democrats | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Edinburgh West North East Fife Orkney and Shetland |
| SNP | Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Airdrie and Shotts Angus Argyll and Bute Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock Central Ayrshire Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East Dundee East Dundee West Dunfermline and West Fife East Dunbartonshire East Renfrewshire Edinburgh East Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh South West Falkirk Glasgow Central Glasgow East Glasgow North Glasgow North East Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West Glenrothes Gordon Inverclyde Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Kilmarnock and Loudoun Lanark and Hamilton East Linlithgow and East Falkirk Livingston Midlothian Motherwell and Wishaw North Ayrshire and Arran Ochil and South Perthshire Paisley and Renfrewshire North Paisley and Renfrewshire South Perth and North Perthshire Ross, Skye and Lochaber Stirling West Dunbartonshire |
| Independent | Na h-Eileanan an Iar |

## Boundary changes

See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

### Background

The Boundary Commission for Scotland submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.
Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.
On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries. Subsequently, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020 ("the Act") was passed into law on 14 December 2020. This formally removed the duty to implement the 2018 review and set out the framework for future boundary reviews. The Act provided that the number of constituencies should remain at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.

### Process

The Act specified that the next review had to be completed no later than 1 July 2023 and the Boundary Commission formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021. In accordance with the provisions of the Act, the number of constituencies allocated to Scotland decreased by 2, from 59 to 57. This includes the protected constituencies of Na h-Eileanan an Iar and Orkney and Shetland.
As part of public consultations for the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for Scotland released its initial proposals on 14 October 2021. Following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. Final recommendations were laid before Parliament on 28 June 2023 after they were published and then submitted a day earlier.

### Recommended seats

Under the final recommendations the following constituencies for Scotland would come into effect at the next general election:
| Council areas | Constituencies | Electorate |
| Orkney IslandsShetland Islands | Orkney and Shetland CC (continuing) | 34,824 |
| Na h-Eileanan an Iar | Na h-Eileanan an Iar CC (continuing) | 21,177 |
| Aberdeen CityAberdeenshireArgyll and ButeHighlandMoray | Aberdeen North BC (continuing) | 76,895 |
| Aberdeen CityAberdeenshireArgyll and ButeHighlandMoray | Aberdeen South BC (continuing) | 76,560 |
| Aberdeen CityAberdeenshireArgyll and ButeHighlandMoray | Aberdeenshire North and Moray East CC | 71,485 |
| Aberdeen CityAberdeenshireArgyll and ButeHighlandMoray | Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber CC | 71,707 |
| Aberdeen CityAberdeenshireArgyll and ButeHighlandMoray | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross CC (continuing) | 75,173 |
| Aberdeen CityAberdeenshireArgyll and ButeHighlandMoray | Gordon and Buchan CC | 70,238 |
| Aberdeen CityAberdeenshireArgyll and ButeHighlandMoray | Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire CC | 76,903 |
| Aberdeen CityAberdeenshireArgyll and ButeHighlandMoray | Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey CC | 76,237 |
| Aberdeen CityAberdeenshireArgyll and ButeHighlandMoray | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine CC (continuing) | 73,634 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | Alloa and Grangemouth CC | 72,265 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | Angus and Perthshire Glens CC | 77,006 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | Arbroath and Broughty Ferry CC | 76,810 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | Bathgate and Linlithgow CC | 71,650 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy CC | 70,329 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | Dundee Central BC | 75,298 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | Dunfermline and Dollar CC | 70,725 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | Falkirk CC (continuing) | 75,067 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | Glenrothes and Mid Fife CC | 69,734 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | Livingston CC (continuing) | 75,454 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | North East Fife CC (continuing) | 70,452 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | Perth and Kinross-shire CC | 76,323 |
| AngusClackmannanshireDundee CityFalkirkFifePerth and KinrossStirlingWest Lothian | Stirling and Strathallan CC | 77,008 |
| City of EdinburghEast LothianMidlothian | Edinburgh East and Musselburgh BC (restored; previously existed 1997–2005) | 75,705 |
| City of EdinburghEast LothianMidlothian | Edinburgh North and Leith BC (continuing) | 76,770 |
| City of EdinburghEast LothianMidlothian | Edinburgh South BC (continuing) | 70,980 |
| City of EdinburghEast LothianMidlothian | Edinburgh South West BC (continuing) | 73,315 |
| City of EdinburghEast LothianMidlothian | Edinburgh West BC (continuing) | 76,723 |
| City of EdinburghEast LothianMidlothian | Lothian East CC | 71,287 |
| City of EdinburghEast LothianMidlothian | Midlothian CC (continuing) | 71,210 |
| Dumfries and GallowayEast DunbartonshireNorth LanarkshireScottish BordersSouth LanarkshireWest Dunbartonshire | Airdrie and Shotts CC (continuing) | 70,420 |
| Dumfries and GallowayEast DunbartonshireNorth LanarkshireScottish BordersSouth LanarkshireWest Dunbartonshire | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk CC (continuing) | 74,687 |
| Dumfries and GallowayEast DunbartonshireNorth LanarkshireScottish BordersSouth LanarkshireWest Dunbartonshire | Coatbridge and Bellshill BC | 72,507 |
| Dumfries and GallowayEast DunbartonshireNorth LanarkshireScottish BordersSouth LanarkshireWest Dunbartonshire | Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch CC | 70,579 |
| Dumfries and GallowayEast DunbartonshireNorth LanarkshireScottish BordersSouth LanarkshireWest Dunbartonshire | Dumfries and Galloway CC (continuing) | 76,863 |
| Dumfries and GallowayEast DunbartonshireNorth LanarkshireScottish BordersSouth LanarkshireWest Dunbartonshire | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale CC (continuing) | 70,738 |
| Dumfries and GallowayEast DunbartonshireNorth LanarkshireScottish BordersSouth LanarkshireWest Dunbartonshire | East Kilbride and Strathaven CC | 75,161 |
| Dumfries and GallowayEast DunbartonshireNorth LanarkshireScottish BordersSouth LanarkshireWest Dunbartonshire | Hamilton and Clyde Valley CC | 74,577 |
| Dumfries and GallowayEast DunbartonshireNorth LanarkshireScottish BordersSouth LanarkshireWest Dunbartonshire | Mid Dunbartonshire CC | 75,099 |
| Dumfries and GallowayEast DunbartonshireNorth LanarkshireScottish BordersSouth LanarkshireWest Dunbartonshire | Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke CC | 72,318 |
| Dumfries and GallowayEast DunbartonshireNorth LanarkshireScottish BordersSouth LanarkshireWest Dunbartonshire | Rutherglen BC (restored; previously existed 1918-1983; Glasgow Rutherglen 1983-2005) | 71,612 |
| Dumfries and GallowayEast DunbartonshireNorth LanarkshireScottish BordersSouth LanarkshireWest Dunbartonshire | West Dunbartonshire CC (continuing) | 70,286 |
| East AyrshireNorth AyrshireSouth Ayrshire | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock CC (continuing) | 72,057 |
| East AyrshireNorth AyrshireSouth Ayrshire | Central Ayrshire CC (continuing) | 69,779 |
| East AyrshireNorth AyrshireSouth Ayrshire | Kilmarnock and Loudoun CC (continuing) | 74,801 |
| East AyrshireNorth AyrshireSouth Ayrshire | North Ayrshire and Arran CC (continuing) | 73,588 |
| East Renfrewshire | East Renfrewshire (continuing) | 72,959 |
| Glasgow CityInverclydeRenfrewshire | Glasgow East BC (continuing) | 69,748 |
| Glasgow CityInverclydeRenfrewshire | Glasgow North BC (continuing) | 73,210 |
| Glasgow CityInverclydeRenfrewshire | Glasgow North East BC (continuing) | 75,236 |
| Glasgow CityInverclydeRenfrewshire | Glasgow South BC (continuing) | 71,344 |
| Glasgow CityInverclydeRenfrewshire | Glasgow South West BC (continuing) | 70,431 |
| Glasgow CityInverclydeRenfrewshire | Glasgow West BC | 72,499 |
| Glasgow CityInverclydeRenfrewshire | Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West CC | 70,418 |
| Glasgow CityInverclydeRenfrewshire | Paisley and Renfrewshire North BC (continuing) | 69,941 |
| Glasgow CityInverclydeRenfrewshire | Paisley and Renfrewshire South CC (continuing) | 69,813 |

## Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019

### Percentage votes

Key:
CON - Conservative Party, including the National Liberal Party up to 1966 and the Unionist Party up to 1964
LAB - Labour Party
LIB - Liberal Party up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992
SNP - Scottish National Party
Other - includes Scottish Green Party, UK Independence Party and Brexit Party (2019)

### Seats

CON - Conservative Party, including the National Liberal Party up to 1966 and the Unionist Party up to 1964
LAB - Labour Party (2001 & 2005 - includes the Speaker, Michael Martin)
LIB - Liberal Party up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992
OTH - 1945 - Independent Labour Party (3); Communist Party (1); Independent Unionist (John Mackie) (1); 1959 - Independent Unionist (David Robertson)
SNP - Scottish National Party