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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.
Galloway and West Dumfries (Gaelic: Gall-Ghaidhealaibh agus Dùn Phrìs an Iar) 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.
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
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale is a constituency of the UK House of Commons, located in the South of Scotland, within the Dumfries and Galloway, South Lanarkshire and Scottish Borders council areas. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years using the First-past-the-post system of voting.
From the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, the Dumfries constituency was abolished, with the city being divided between two new constituencies; Dumfriesshire, and Galloway and West Dumfries. Electoral region
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. 1654–55: James Johnstone, 2nd Earl of Hartfell; 1656–58: George Smith; After the Restoration, the Parliament of Scotland was again summoned to meet in Edinburgh.
Oliver Gordon Watson Mundell (born 1 December 1989) is a Scottish politician of the Scottish Conservative Party. He has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Dumfriesshire constituency since 2016. He served as Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills from 2021 to September 2022. [2]
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.