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Perth and Kinross (UK Parliament constituency)
This article is about the former UK Parliamentary constituency. For the present-day local government area, see Perth and Kinross.
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| Perth and Kinross | |
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| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| Subdivisions of Scotland | Perthshire |
| Major settlements | Perth |
| 1983–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Perth |
| Created from | Perth & East Perthshire |
Perth and Kinross was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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The Perth and Kinross constituency was largely a replacement for the Perth and East Perthshire constituency.[citation needed] As first used in the 1983 general election, it covered part of the region of Tayside, which had been created in 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, as a region of three districts, including the district of Perth and Kinross. In 1997 the Perth and Kinross constituency was largely replaced by the Perth constituency.[citation needed]
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Members of Parliament
| Election | Member[1] | Party | Notes | |
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| 1983 | Sir Nicholas Fairbairn | Conservative | Died in office February 1995 | |
| 1995 by-election | Roseanna Cunningham | SNP | subsequently MP for Perth | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Perth | |||
Election results
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1995 By-election
| Perth and Kinross by-election, 1995 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| SNP | Roseanna Cunningham | 16,931 | 40.4 | +4.4 | |
| Labour | Douglas Alexander | 9,620 | 22.9 | +10.5 | |
| Conservative | J. Godfrey | 8,990 | 21.4 | -18.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Mrs V. Linklater | 4,952 | 11.8 | +0.4 | |
| Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 586 | 1.4 | ||
| UKIP | V. Linacre | 504 | 1.2 | ||
| Scottish Green | Robin Harper | 223 | |||
| Independent | M. Halford | 88 | 0.2 | ||
| Natural Law | G Black | 54 | 0.1 | ||
| Majority | 7,311 | 17.4 | |||
| Turnout | 41.948 | 62.1 | -14.8 | ||
| SNP gain from Conservative | Swing | +11.6 | |||
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