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East Lothian from 2005–2024. The constituency was created for the 1983 general election.Until the SNP landslide victory in 2015, the seat had been continuously represented by MPs from the Labour Party since the constituency's creation 32 years earlier.
The East Lothian 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 (House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies. [2]
The current MP for Lothian East is Douglas Alexander of the Labour Party, who has represented the constituency since the 2024 general election, replacing Alba Party MP, Kenny MacAskill. Former UK Prime Minister Arthur Balfour was born on 25 July 1848 at Whittingehame House in what is now the Lothian East constituency.
Constituency Council area or areas Additional members region Population ... East Lothian, Midlothian: Lothian: 85,799 Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale:
Lothian is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) .
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 ...
Most of the East Lothian council area is outside, covered by the East Lothian constituency, which is in the South of Scotland region. A western portion of the Midlothian council area is covered by the Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale constituency, within the South of Scotland region.
Berwick and East Lothian was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post system. History