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Peterhead North and Rattray - 4 seats Party Candidate FPv% Count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 SNP: Anne Allan () : 17.35 618 620 628 647 812 Independent: Alan S. Buchan () : 16.47
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Following the completion of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies , it was first contested at the 2024 general election , since when it has been held by Seamus Logan of the Scottish National Party .
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The constituency covers parts of both Aberdeenshire and Moray. It is one of the five constituencies covering Aberdeenshire in the Scottish Parliament, alongside Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Aberdeen South and North Kincardine and Angus North and Mearns. The rest of Moray is represented by the Moray constituency.
Daisy Edgar-Jones, left, and Taylor John Smith in a scene from “Where the Crawdads Sing.” The book and movie are set in North Carolina, though the movie was filmed in Louisiana.
Peterhead was, and remains, an important fishing port, and the breakwater gave it an advantage over other fishing ports. The north breakwater, constructed between 1912 and 1956, [16] is approximately 1,500 ft (460 m) long. [17] Peterhead was a Jacobite-supporting town in the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745.
Rattray Head (listen ⓘ), [1] historically Rattray Point, is a headland in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, on the north-east coast Scotland. To north lies Strathbeg Bay and Rattray Bay is to its south. The dunes at Rattray Head beach can be up to 75 feet (23 m) high and stretch 17 miles (27 km) from St Combs to Peterhead. [2] [3]
When Peterhead was founded, in 1593, [2] it was known as the "Harbour and Barony of Keith Insche commonly called Peterhead". [3] The harbour was proving so valuable that in 1738, the Leith shipmasters attested that "the harbour of Peterhead is in our opinion the best situate of any place in Scotland for all ships trading on the north seas". [4]