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Holyrood constituency was one of two covering the
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116:Midlothian North & Musselburgh
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1408:West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
779:1999 Scottish Parliament election
581:2003 Scottish Parliament election
382:2007 Scottish Parliament election
320:Member of the Scottish Parliament
279:Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
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149:plurality (first past the post)
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232:City of Edinburgh council area
201:Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
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283:Scottish Borders council area
1456:Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
1103:Hamilton North and Bellshill
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164:proportional representation
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1083:Cumbernauld and Kilsyth
1078:Coatbridge and Chryston
275:Midlothian council area
240:Midlothian council area
230:The region covered the
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1575:Bonnyrigg and Lasswade
1113:Kilmarnock and Loudoun
158:, which elected seven
1302:Mid Scotland and Fife
1191:Highlands and Islands
1118:Motherwell and Wishaw
351:Scottish Labour Party
1219:Na h-Eileanan an Iar
1360:North East Scotland
1267:Edinburgh Pentlands
1176:Glasgow Shettleston
1141:Glasgow Baillieston
1047:Scottish Parliament
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689:Rosemary Macarthur
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77:Former constituency
43:Scottish Parliament
1181:Glasgow Springburn
1171:Glasgow Rutherglen
1136:Glasgow Anniesland
1073:Airdrie and Shotts
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647:Graham Sutherland
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1146:Glasgow Cathcart
1065:Central Scotland
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1098:Falkirk West
1093:Falkirk East
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1398:Dundee West
1393:Dundee East
1054:2011–
976:(new seat)
914:Independent
872:John Elder
471:Ross Laird
310:Auchendinny
112:Replaced by
1539:Categories
1436:Clydesdale
1292:Midlothian
1287:Livingston
1282:Linlithgow
789:Candidate
591:Candidate
492:P J Lewis
392:Candidate
297:See also:
225:Livingston
221:Linlithgow
189:See also:
129:Midlothian
106:Midlothian
31:Midlothian
1494:Dumbarton
1325:Kirkcaldy
983:Footnotes
934:Majority
724:Majority
527:Majority
92:Abolished
1570:Dalkeith
1499:Eastwood
1446:Dumfries
1350:Stirling
1244:Lothians
1234:Shetland
1001:Archived
327:Election
169:For the
153:Lothians
141:Holyrood
70:Scotland
41:for the
1128:Glasgow
1051:»
1045:of the
955:29,755
951:Turnout
822:14,467
749:−12.76
743:23,556
739:Turnout
624:11,139
546:25,111
542:Turnout
425:10,671
147:by the
135:of the
82:Created
1403:Gordon
1224:Orkney
1057:»
971:Labour
958:61.49
940:18.57
937:5,525
898:2,544
878:10.70
875:3,184
855:30.05
852:8,942
827:48.62
809:Labour
792:Votes
786:Party
757:Labour
746:48.75
733:+4.96
730:23.53
727:5,542
719:+6.64
713:1,563
698:+2.30
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674:11.46
671:2,700
656:−6.29
653:23.76
650:5,597
634:−1.33
629:47.29
611:Labour
594:Votes
588:Party
560:Labour
536:−16.7
530:1,702
495:2,269
474:2,704
459:+11.9
453:8,969
412:Labour
395:Votes
389:Party
333:Party
330:Member
234:, the
177:, and
131:was a
1383:Angus
1345:Perth
1340:Ochil
1214:Moray
924:2.08
901:8.55
769:+8.4
765:Swing
716:6.64
568:Swing
552:+2.9
549:51.6
501:−1.8
480:−0.7
477:10.8
456:35.7
435:−4.8
430:42.5
262:. In
994:See
921:618
760:hold
563:hold
533:6.8
517:2.0
514:498
498:9.0
360:2011
341:1999
264:2005
256:1999
223:and
95:2011
86:1999
1426:Ayr
974:win
962:N/A
944:N/A
928:N/A
905:N/A
882:N/A
859:N/A
843:SNP
833:N/A
643:SNP
521:New
444:SNP
1541::
799:±%
795:%
601:±%
597:%
402:±%
398:%
246:.
227:.
219:,
215:,
211:,
207:,
203:,
199:,
181:.
1035:e
1028:t
1021:v
139:(
118:,
23:.
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