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Roxburgh and Berwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
RoxburghBerwickshire1997Constituency.svg
Boundary of Roxburgh and Berwickshire in Scotlandfor the 2001 general election
1983–2005
SeatsOne
Created from Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles and Berwick and East Lothian
Replaced by Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk

Roxburgh and Berwickshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1983 to 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post voting system.

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Boundaries

1983–1997: Roxburgh District, and Berwickshire District.

1997–2005: Roxburgh District, Berwickshire District, and the Ettrick and Lauderdale District electoral division of Scott's View.

The constituency was defined by the Third Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, and first used in the 1983 general election. The name of the constituency relates it to the Roxburgh and Berwickshire districts of the Borders region, which were created in 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.

By the time of the Third Periodical Review, Scottish counties and burghs had been abolished by the same legislation which created regions and districts, and earlier constituencies had been defined by the Second Periodical Review, with reference to county and burgh boundaries, results being implemented for the February 1974 general election. The county of Roxburgh was covered by the Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles constituency, and the county of Berwick was covered by the Berwick and East Lothian constituency.

In 1996, under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994, regions and districts were abolished and the Scottish Borders council area was created with the boundaries of the former Borders region.

The results of the Fourth Periodical Review were implemented for the 1997 general election.

When the constituency was abolished, as a result of the Fifth Periodical Review, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk was created, and first used in the 2005 general election, as one of six constituencies covering the Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, and South Lanarkshire council areas.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [1] Party
1983 Sir Archy Kirkwood Liberal
1988 Liberal Democrats
2005 constituency abolished

Election results

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Berwickshire constituencies electoral history

Elections of the 1980s

General election 1983: Roxburgh and Berwickshire [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Archy Kirkwood 15,920 50.3 +10.2
Conservative Iain Sproat 12,52439.6−0.5
Labour David Briggs2,3267.4−5.6
SNP Robert Shirley8522.7−4.1
Majority 3,39610.7
Turnout 31,62275.8
Liberal win (new seat)
General election 1987: Roxburgh and Berwickshire [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Archy Kirkwood 16,388 49.2 −1.1
Conservative Liam Fox 12,38037.2−2.4
Labour Tim Luckhurst 2,9448.8+1.4
SNP Marshall Douglas1,5864.8+2.1
Majority 4,00812.0+1.3
Turnout 33,29877.2+1.4
Liberal hold Swing

Elections of the 1990s

General election 1992: Roxburgh and Berwickshire [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Archy Kirkwood 15,852 46.9 −2.3
Conservative Shirley Finlay-Maxwell11,59534.3−2.9
SNP Marshall Douglas3,43710.2+5.4
Labour Stephen Lambert2,9098.6−0.2
Majority 4,25712.6+0.6
Turnout 33,79377.6+0.4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
General election 1997: Roxburgh and Berwickshire [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Archy Kirkwood 16,243 46.5 0.0
Conservative Douglas Younger8,33723.9−10.3
Labour Helen Eadie 5,22615.0+6.2
SNP Malcolm Balfour3,95911.3+0.7
Referendum John Curtis9222.6New
UKIP Peter Neilson2020.6New
Natural Law David Lucas420.1New
Majority 7,90622.6+10.0
Turnout 34,93173.9−3.7
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Elections of the 2000s

General election 2001: Roxburgh and Berwickshire [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Archy Kirkwood 14,044 48.8 +2.3
Conservative George Turnbull6,53322.7−1.2
Labour Catherine Stuart4,49815.6+0.6
SNP Roderick Campbell2,8069.7−1.6
Scottish Socialist Amanda Millar4631.6New
UKIP Peter Neilson4531.6+1.0
Majority 7,51126.1+3.5
Turnout 28,79760.6−13.3
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

See also

References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
  2. ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
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