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The boundaries of the constituency, and its predecessors, can be viewed at Scottish Boundaries Commission's Map Browser. The boundaries of the constituency can also be viewed at the Ordnance Survey's Election Maps site. Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2005 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
Dumfriesshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Dhùn Phris) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of Dumfries and Galloway. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election.
Dumfriesshire was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801 and in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster) from 1801 until 2005. It was known as Dumfries from 1950.
The Dumfries and Galloway constituency was created by the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, and covers part of the Dumfries and Galloway council area. . The rest of the council area is covered by the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency, which also covers part of the Scottish Borders council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council ar
Constituency Council area or areas Additional members region Population (2019) [5] Aberdeen Central: Aberdeen City: North East Scotland: 83,675 Aberdeen Donside: Aberdeen City: North East Scotland: 80,156 Aberdeen South and North Kincardine: Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire: North East Scotland: 79,644 Aberdeenshire East: Aberdeenshire: North East ...
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Galloway and West Dumfries has a dynamic mix of political traditions. It covers most of the former Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency, a seat which has a long-standing tradition of being marginally contested between the Conservatives and the Scottish National Party, in addition to patches of the former safe Labour constituency of Dumfries.
1628–33, 1639–41, 1643, 1644–47, 1648: Sir Robert Grierson of Lag [1]; 1643: John Laurie of Maxwelton [2]; During the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, the sheriffdom of Dumfries was represented by one Member of Parliament in the Protectorate Parliament at Westminster.