Perthshire South and Kinross-shire (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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Constituency
Current constituency

Perthshire and Kinross-shire is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

For the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the constituency of Perth was abolished and replaced by Perthshire North and Perthshire South and Kinross-shire.

Electoral region

See also: Mid Scotland and Fife (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, North East Fife, Perthshire North and Stirling.

The region covers all of the Clackmannanshire council area, all of the Fife council area, all of the Perth and Kinross council area and all of the Stirling council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area

Perth and Kinross is represented in the Scottish Parliament by two constituencies, Perthshire North and Perthshire South and Kinross-shire.

The electoral wards used in Perthshire South and Kinross-shire are:

• Strathearn, Strathallan, Kinross-shire, Almond and Earn, Perth City North, Perth City South

Constituency profile

The constituency is a combination of small prosperous towns and rich agricultural land. It includes the town of Perth and the towns of Bridge of Earn, Auchterarder, Crieff and Comrie. It is a relatively prosperous, largely rural, Lowland seat on the fringe of the Highlands, with successful livestock farming, fruit-growing and tourism interests. Unemployment is relatively low and half the electorate lives in the town of Perth itself.

In Westminster elections the area is traditionally Conservative, and Conservatives have held seats representing the area during most of the period since World War II. Scottish National Party (SNP) tradition is also strong, however, and the SNP has contested every parliamentary election in the area in the same post war period. In the Perth and Kinross Westminster by-election in 1995, the SNP's Roseanna Cunningham won the Perth and Kinross Westminster seat from the Conservatives with an 11.5% swing. She then held the seat in the 1997 United Kingdom general election and went on to be elected to Holyrood in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, and to be re-elected in the 2003 Scottish Parliament election.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" |	2011	Roseanna Cunningham	Scottish National Party

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Perthshire South and Kinross-shire
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	SNP	Y Roseanna Cunningham		16,073	51.49	+14.63	14,957	47.73
	Conservative	Elizabeth Smith		8,907	28.53	-3.86	7,865	25.10
	Labour	Patricia Duncan		3,980	12.75	+0.16	3,907	12.47
	Liberal Democrats	Willie Robertson		2,256	7.23	-9.57	1,527	4.87
	Scottish Green						1,512	4.82
	Scottish Senior Citizens						522	1.67
	UKIP						349	1.11
	BNP						183	0.58
	Scottish Christian						107	0.34
	Socialist Labour						104	0.33
	Scottish Socialist						86	0.27
	CPA						75	0.24
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	Independent - Andrew Rodger						55	0.18
	Solidarity						14	0.04
Informal votes				90			75
Total valid votes				31,216			31,338
	SNP hold		Majority	7,166	22.96

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Perthshire South and Kinross-shire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP		11,431	36.9
	Conservative		10,047	32.4
	Liberal Democrats		5,211	16.8
	Labour		3,906	12.6
	Others		420	1.4
Majority			1,384	4.5
	SNP hold		Swing