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 Scottish Parliament election, 2011, 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 region

The other eight constituencies of the South of Scotland region are Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, North East Fife, Kirkcaldy, 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, all of the Stirling council area and parts of the Angus council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area

Boundary review

See Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions from 2011

Following their First Periodic review of constituencies to the Scottish Parliament in time for the election in 2011, the Boundary Commission for Scotland created two newly drawn seats to replace Perth. These are Perthshire North and Perthshire South and Kinross-shire.

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

• In full: Strathearn, Strathallan, Kinross-shire, Almond and Earn, Perth City North, Perth City South.

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