Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire
county constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire shown within the South Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Conservative
MSP	John Lamont
Council area	Scottish Borders
Created from	Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the South Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

For the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the seat of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale was re-established as Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire and Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale.

Electoral region

The other eight constituencies of the South Scotland region are Ayr, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Clydesdale, Dumfriesshire, East Lothian, Galloway and West Dumfries, Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley and Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale.

The region covers the Dumfries and Galloway council area, part of the East Ayrshire council area, part of the East Lothian council area, part of the Midlothian council area, the Scottish Borders council area, the South Ayrshire council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council area.

Constituency boundaries and council areas

The rest of the Scottish Borders is represented in the Scottish Parliament by the Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale constituency.

The electoral wards in the Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire constituency are:

Selkirkshire, Mid Berwickshire, East Berwickshire, Kelso and District, Jedburgh and District, Hawick and Denholm, Hawick and Hermitage

Members of the Scottish Parliament

As Roxburgh and Berwickshire

	Member	Party
1999	Euan Robson	Scottish Liberal Democrats
2003	Euan Robson	Scottish Liberal Democrats
2007	John Lamont	Scottish Conservative Party

As Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire

Election		Member	Party
	2011	John Lamont	Scottish Conservative Party
	2016	John Lamont	Scottish Conservative Party

Election results

2016 parliamentary election

John Lamont.

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Y John Lamont		18,257	55.2	+10.3	15,452	46.65	+15.16
	SNP	Paul Wheelhouse		10,521	31.8	+5.4	10,068	30.40	-4.45
	Liberal Democrats	Jim Hume		2,551	7.7	-9.6	2,851	8.61	-6.14
	Labour	Barrie Cunning		1,766	5.3	-5.0	2,251	6.80	-4.23
	Scottish Green						1,481	4.47	+1.11
	UKIP						771	2.33	+0.66
	Independent						112
	RISE						68
	Solidarity						67
Informal votes				88			68
Total Valid votes				33,095			33,121
	Conservative hold		Majority	7,736	23.4	+4.9

2011 parliamentary election

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Y John Lamont		12,933	44.88	+5.84	9,045	31.49
	SNP	Paul Wheelhouse		7,599	26.37	+8.62	10,009	34.85
	Liberal Democrats	Euan Robson		4,990	17.32	-16.51	4,247	14.79
	Labour	Rab Stewart		2,986	10.36	+2.08	2,881	10.03
	Independent	Jesse Rae		308	1.07	+1.07
	Scottish Green						965	3.36
	UKIP						481	1.67
	All Scotland Pensioners Party						442	1.54
	Socialist Labour						201	0.70
	BNP						183	0.64
	Scottish Christian						178	0.62
	Scottish Socialist						71	0.25
	Solidarity						21	0.07
Total Valid votes				28,816			28,724
	Conservative hold		Majority	5,334	18.51

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Party		Votes	%
	Conservative	11,336	39.0
	Liberal Democrats	9,822	33.8
	SNP	5,154	17.8
	Labour	2,404	8.3
	Others	318	1.1
Majority		1,514	5.2
	Conservative hold	Swing

References

« 1999–2011 « Electoral regions and constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 2011–

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Provan Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Southside Rutherglen

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Ross Inverness and Nairn Moray Na h-Eileanan an Iar Orkney Shetland Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

Lothian	Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh

Mid Scotland and Fife	Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Mid Fife and Glenrothes North East Fife Perthshire North Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen Donside Aberdeen South and North Kincardine Aberdeenshire East Aberdeenshire West Angus North and Mearns Angus South Banffshire and Buchan Coast Dundee City East Dundee City West

South Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Dumfriesshire East Lothian Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire Galloway and West Dumfries Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley Midlothian South, Tweeddale, and Lauderdale

West Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Cunninghame South Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley Renfrewshire North and West Renfrewshire South Strathkelvin and Bearsden

Electoral regions and Constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2011 » 2011– »

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton North and Bellshill Hamilton South Kilmarnock and Loudoun Motherwell and Wishaw

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Baillieston Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Govan Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Rutherglen Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Springburn

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber Moray Orkney Ross, Skye and Inverness West Shetland Western Isles

Lothians	Edinburgh Central Edinburgh East and Musselburgh Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh South Edinburgh West Linlithgow Livingston Midlothian

Mid Scotland and Fife	Central Fife Dunfermline East Dunfermline West Kirkcaldy North East Fife North Tayside Ochil Perth Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Angus Banff and Buchan Dundee East Dundee West Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

South of Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

West of Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley North Paisley South Strathkelvin and Bearsden West Renfrewshire

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