Moray (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Moray (UK Parliament constituency).

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Constituency
Current constituency

Moray 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. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to eight constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Electoral region

See also: Highlands and Islands (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

The Moray constituency is part of the Highlands and Islands electoral region; the other seven constituencies of are: Argyll and Bute; Caithness, Sutherland and Ross; Inverness and Nairn; Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles); Orkney; Shetland and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.

The region covers most of Argyll and Bute council area, all of the Highland council area, most of the Moray council area, all of the Orkney Islands council area, all of the Shetland Islands council area and all of Na h-Eileanan Siar.

Constituency boundaries

The Moray 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, the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency was enlarged slightly.

Council area

The Holyrood constituency covers most of the Moray council area; the rest of the council area is covered by the Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency, which is in the North East Scotland electoral region. The Moray Westminster constituency has covered the whole of the council area since 2005.

The electoral wards used in the creation of the Moray constituency are:

• In full: Speyside-Glenlivet, Fochabers-Lhanbryde, Heldon and Laich, Elgin City North, Elgin City South and Forres
• In part: Keith and Cullen

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" |	1999	Margaret Ewing	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" |	2003
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" |	2006	Richard Lochhead
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" |	2007
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" |	2011

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Moray

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Richard Lochhead	16,817	58.8	+9
	Conservative	Douglas Ross	5,873	20.5	−3.3
	Labour	Kieron Green	3,580	12.5	−1.6
	Liberal Democrats	Jamie Paterson	1,327	4.6	−7.5
	UKIP	Donald Gatt	999	3.5	+3.5
Majority			10,944	38.3
Turnout			28,596	50.5

Liberal Democrats and UKIP both gained under 5% of the poll and thus lost their deposit

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Moray

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP		14,007	49.8
	Conservative		6,721	23.9
	Labour		3,959	14.1
	Liberal Democrats		3,413	12.1
	Others		40	0.1
Majority			7,286	25.9
	SNP hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Moray

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Richard Lochhead	15,045	49.7	+7.5
	Conservative	Mary Scanlon	7,121	23.5	+1.0
	Labour	Lee Butcher	4,580	15.1	−4.0
	Liberal Democrats	Dominique Rommel	3,528	11.6	−0.6
Majority			7,924	26.2
Turnout			30,274	50.1	+3.8
	SNP hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament by-election, 2006: Moray

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Richard Lochhead	12,653	46.15	+3.95
	Conservative	Mary Scanlon	6,268	22.86	+0.35
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Gorn	5,310	19.37	+7.20
	Labour	Sandy Keith	2,696	9.83	−9.28
	NHSFirst Party	Melville Brown	493	1.80	N/A
Majority			6385	23.3	+3.6
Turnout			27,420	45.5	−0.8
	SNP hold		Swing	+1.8

Scottish Parliament Election 2003: Moray

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Margaret Ewing	11,384	42.19%	+4.40%
	Conservative	Tim Wood	6,072	22.50%	−3.09%
	Labour	Peter Peacock	5,157	19.11%	−7.03%
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Gorn	3,283	12.16%	+3.06%
	Scottish Socialist	Norma Anderson	1,015	4.02%	N/A
Majority			5,312	19.69%
Turnout
	SNP hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament Election 1999: Moray

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Margaret Ewing	13,027	38.79%	n/a
	Labour	Ali Farquharson	8,898	26.50%	n/a
	Conservative	Andrew Findlay	8,595	25.59%	n/a
	Liberal Democrats	Patsy Kenton	3,056	9.10%	n/a
Majority			4,129	12.30%	n/a
Turnout
	SNP hold		Swing