Angus North and Mearns

Angus North and Mearns
Scottish Parliament county constituency
Angus North and Mearns shown within the North East Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Created	2011
MSP	Nigel Don
Council area	Angus (part) Aberdeenshire (part)
Party	Scottish National Party

Angus North and Mearns is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). 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 ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

For the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, current seat Angus is expanded and split into two separate constituencies; Angus North and Mearns and Angus South

Electoral region

See also North East Scotland Scottish Parliament region

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 the Aberdeenshire council area, the Aberdeen City council area, the Dundee City council area, part of the Angus council area, a small part of the Moray council area and a small part of the Perth and Kinross council area.

Constituency boundaries

The electoral wards used in the creation of Angus North and Mearns are;

• In full: Mearns; Brechin and Edzell; Forfar and District; Montrose and District;
• In part: Stonehaven and Lower Deeside (split between this seat and neighbouring Aberdeenshire West

Boundary review

See : Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions from 2011

Following the First Periodic review of constituencies to the Scottish Parliament, the old constituency of Angus was split into two newly drawn seats for the election in 2011. These are Angus North and Mearns, and Angus South.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election results

The following table is the election results for the former constituency of Angus.

See also

• Politics of Dundee

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