Stirling (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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Constituency
Current constituency

Stirling 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.

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 South and Kinross-shire 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

The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of a pre-existing Westminster (House of Commons) constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster constituencies were generally replaced with new larger constituencies.^[1] The Stirling Westminster constituency was slightly enlarged.

The rest of Stirling is represented by the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency.

The electoral wards used in the creation of Stirling were:

Trossachs and Teith, Forth and Endrick, Castle, Stirling West, Stirling East, Bannockburn

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" \|	1999	Sylvia Jackson	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" \|	2003	Sylvia Jackson	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" \|	2007	Bruce Crawford	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" \|	2011	Bruce Crawford	Scottish National Party

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Stirling
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
SNP	Bruce Crawford	14,858	48.9	+16.1
Labour	John Hendry	9,188	30.2	−3.8
Conservative	Neil Benny	4,610	15.2	−6.6
Liberal Democrats	Graham Reed	1,296	4.3	−5.5
Independent	Jack Black	454	1.5	+1.5
SNP gain from Labour		Swing	+9.9

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Stirling
Party		Votes	%
	Labour	10,934	34.0
	SNP	10,545	32.8
	Conservative	7,012	21.8
	Liberal Democrats	3,152	9.8
	Others	502	1.6
Majority		389	1.2
	Labour hold	Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Stirling
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Bruce Crawford	10,447	32.0	+13.0
	Labour	Sylvia Jackson	9,827	30.1	−5.9
	Conservative	Bob Dalrymple	8,081	24.8	−1.4
	Liberal Democrats	Alex Cole-Hamilton	3,693	11.3	−0.3
	Peace	Liz Law	557	1.8	+1.8
Majority			620	1.9
Turnout			32,625	62.3	+5.4
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing	+9.4

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Stirling
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sylvia Jackson	10,661	36.0	−2.0
	Conservative	Brian Monteith	7,781	26.2	+0.6
	SNP	Bruce Crawford	5,645	19.0	−7.8
	Liberal Democrats	Kenyon Wright	3,432	11.6	+2.0
	Scottish Socialist	Margaret Stewart	1,486	5.0	+5.0
	Scottish People's	Keith Harding	642	2.2	+2.2
Majority			2,880	9.7
Turnout			29,647	56.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.0

Scottish Parliament election, 1999: Stirling
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sylvia Jackson	13,533	37.80	N/A
	SNP	Annabelle Ewing	9,522	26.68	N/A
	Conservative	Brian Monteith	9,158	25.58	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Iain MacFarlane	3,407	9.52	N/A
	Independent	Simon Kilgour	155	0.43	N/A
Majority			3,981	11.12	N/A
Turnout			35,805
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Footnotes

^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland

[1] See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland

[1]

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