Dumfries (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Dumfries (Parliament of Scotland constituency).

Dumfries (dum-FREESS) was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It was also one of nine constituencies in the South of Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Dumfries
Former county constituency for the Scottish Parliament
Dumfries shown within the South of Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Former constituency
Created	1999
Abolished	2011
Council area	Dumfries and Galloway
Replaced by	Dumfriesshire, Galloway and West Dumfries

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

See also South of Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

Constituency boundaries and council area

The Dumfries constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.^[1]

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1999	Elaine Murray	Labour
	2011	Constituency abolished: see Dumfriesshire and Galloway and West Dumfries

Election results

2007 Scottish Parliament election: Dumfries

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Elaine Murray	13,707	41.0	+1.0
	Conservative	Murray Tosh	10,860	32.5	−4.1
	SNP	Michael Russell	6,306	18.9	+6.6
	Liberal Democrats	Lynne Hume	2,538	7.6	+0.1
Majority			2,839	8.5	+5.1
Rejected ballots			1,006
Turnout			33,419	53.5	+1.3
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.6

2003 Scottish Parliament election: Dumfries

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Elaine Murray	12,834	40.0	+3.3
	Conservative	David Mundell	11,738	36.6	+9.4
	SNP	Andrew Wood	3,931	12.3	−7.5
	Liberal Democrats	Clare Humblen	2394	7.5	−8.7
	Scottish Socialist	John Dennis	1213	3.8	New
Majority			1,096	3.4	−6.1
Turnout			32,110	52.2
	Labour hold		Swing

1999 Scottish Parliament election: Dumfries

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Elaine Murray	14,101	36.7	N/A
	Conservative	David Mundell	10,447	27.2	N/A
	SNP	Stephen Norris	7,625	19.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Iain Haughie	6,209	16.2	N/A
Majority			3,654	10.5	N/A
Turnout			38,382		N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

Footnotes

1. See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived September 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine