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Angus North and Mearns (Gaelic: Aonghas a Tuath agus a' Mhaoirne) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering parts of the council areas of Angus and Aberdeenshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is one of ten constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Angus North and Mearns | |
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County constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
Population | 70,839 (2019)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2011 |
Party | Scottish National Party |
MSP | Mairi Gougeon |
Council area | Angus Aberdeenshire |
Created from | Angus, North Tayside, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine |
The seat was created for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election and covers areas that were in the seats of Angus, Tayside North and West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine.[2] It has been held by Mairi Gougeon of the Scottish National Party since the 2016 Scottish Parliament election.
The other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region are: Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen Donside, Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus South, Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Dundee City East and Dundee City West.
The region covers all of the Aberdeen City council area, Aberdeenshire, Angus, the Dundee City council area and part of Moray.
Angus North and Mearns covers parts of the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Angus. Angus is represented by two constituencies in the Scottish Parliament, the other constituency being Angus South. Aberdeenshire is represented by four other constituencies in the Scottish Parliament: Aberdeenshire East and Aberdeenshire West are both entirely within Aberdeenshire; Aberdeen South and North Kincardine also includes a portion of the Aberdeen City council area; Banffshire and Buchan Coast also includes a portion of Moray.
The electoral wards used in the creation of Angus North and Mearns are:
Election | Member | Party | |
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2011 | Nigel Don | SNP | |
2016 | Mairi Gougeon (née Evans) |
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
SNP | Mairi Gougeon[lower-alpha 1] | 17,144 | 48.6 | 2.9 | 14,360 | 40.6 | 0.7 | |
Conservative | Braden Davy | 13,635 | 38.7 | 1.4 | 12,451 | 35.2 | 0.7 | |
Labour | Cindy Douglas | 2,686 | 7.6 | 1.8 | 2,912 | 8.2 | 0.8 | |
Scottish Green | 2,151 | 6.1 | 0.9 | |||||
Liberal Democrats | Michael Turvey | 1,804 | 5.1 | 2.6 | 1,603 | 4.5 | 0.7 | |
Alba | 724 | 2.0 | New | |||||
All for Unity | 251 | 0.7 | New | |||||
Scottish Family | 191 | 0.5 | New | |||||
Independent Green Voice | 188 | 0.5 | New | |||||
Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 151 | 0.4 | New | |||||
Reform UK | 80 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Freedom Alliance (UK) | 77 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Restore Scotland | 63 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Scottish Libertarian | 56 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |||||
UKIP | 52 | 0.1 | 2.0 | |||||
Independent | Laura Marshall | 35 | 0.1 | New | ||||
Independent | Geoffrey Farquharson | 29 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Renew | 5 | 0.0 | New | |||||
Majority | 3,509 | 9.9 | 1.5 | |||||
Valid Votes | 35,269 | 35,379 | ||||||
Invalid Votes | 114 | 41 | ||||||
Turnout | 35,383 | 64.2 | 10.1 | 35,420 | 64.2 | 9.9 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | 0.8 | ||||||
Notes
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Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
SNP | Mairi Evans | 13,417 | 45.7 | 9.1 | 12,170 | 41.3 | 11.3 | |
Conservative | Alex Johnstone[lower-alpha 1] | 10,945 | 37.3 | 11.7 | 10,575 | 35.9 | 15.1 | |
Labour | John Ruddy | 2,752 | 9.4 | 3.3 | 2,663 | 9.0 | 2.3 | |
Scottish Green | 1,532 | 5.2 | 1.4 | |||||
Liberal Democrats | Euan Davidson | 2,265 | 7.7 | 0.8 | 1,522 | 5.2 | 0.5 | |
UKIP | 626 | 2.1 | 1.2 | |||||
Scottish Christian | 110 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |||||
Solidarity | 80 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |||||
National Front | 69 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |||||
Scottish Libertarian | 56 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Communist | 47 | 0.2 | New | |||||
RISE | 44 | 0.1 | New | |||||
Majority | 2,472 | 8.4 | 20.8 | |||||
Valid Votes | 29,379 | 29,494 | ||||||
Invalid Votes | 117 | 40 | ||||||
Turnout | 29,496 | 54.1 | 5.2 | 29,534 | 54.3 | 5.3 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | 10.4 | ||||||
Notes
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Party | Candidate | Constituency | Region | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
SNP | Nigel Don[lower-alpha 1] | 13,660 | 54.8 | N/A | 13,114 | 52.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Alex Johnstone[lower-alpha 1] | 6,374 | 25.6 | N/A | 5,195 | 20.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Kevin Hutchens | 3,160 | 12.7 | N/A | 2,828 | 11.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Sanjay Samani | 1,726 | 6.9 | N/A | 1,431 | 5.7 | N/A | |
Scottish Green | 948 | 3.8 | N/A | |||||
All-Scotland Pensioners Party | 474 | 1.9 | N/A | |||||
Scottish Christian | 145 | 0.6 | N/A | |||||
UKIP | 237 | 0.9 | N/A | |||||
Socialist Labour | 145 | 0.6 | N/A | |||||
BNP | 187 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
Scottish Socialist | 75 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
National Front | 54 | 0.2 | N/A | |||||
Solidarity | 15 | 0.1 | N/A | |||||
Angus Independents | 43 | 0.2 | N/A | |||||
Others | 59 | 0.2 | N/A | |||||
Majority | 7,286 | 29.2 | N/A | |||||
Valid Votes | 24,920 | 24,950 | ||||||
Invalid Votes | 88 | 102 | ||||||
Turnout | 20,008 | 48.9 | N/A | 25,052 | 49.0 | N/A | ||
SNP win (new seat) | ||||||||
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