Stirling_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)
Stirling (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Region or constituency of the Scottish Parliament
Stirling is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of Stirling. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
| Stirling | |
|---|---|
| County constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
Stirling shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Population | 77,002 (2019)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1999 |
| Party | Scottish National Party |
| MSP | Evelyn Tweed |
| Council area | Stirling |
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The seat has been held by Evelyn Tweed of the Scottish National Party since the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.
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, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire.
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.
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. For the 2005 United Kingdom general election Scottish Westminster constituencies were generally replaced with new larger constituencies whilst Scottish Parliament constituencies were left unchanged, meaning Holyrood and Westminster constituencies no longer aligned. The Stirling Westminster constituency was slightly enlarged and now includes all of the Stirling council area.[2]
The constituency boundaries were altered ahead of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election by the first periodical review of Scottish Parliament constituencies. The rest of Stirling council area is represented by the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency.
The electoral wards used in the creation of Stirling are listed below. All of these wards are in Stirling council area:[3]
- Bannockburn
- Forth and Endrick
- Stirling East
- Stirling North (known as Castle until 2017)
- Stirling West
- Trossachs and Teith
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Sylvia Jackson | Labour | |
| 2007 | Bruce Crawford | SNP | |
| 2021 | Evelyn Tweed | ||
2020s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Evelyn Tweed | 19,882 | 48.6 |  0.9 |
15,779 | 38.5 |  1.3 | |
| Conservative | Dean Lockhart[lower-alpha 1] | 12,987 | 31.8 | 3.8 |
11,977 | 29.2 | 0.5 | |
| Labour | Chris Kane | 6,556 | 16.0 | 4.1 |
6,019 | 14.7 | 2.7 | |
| Scottish Green | 4,306 | 10.5 | 2.2 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Fayzan Rehman | 1,466 | 3.6 | 0.5 |
1,381 | 3.4 | 0.1 | |
| Alba | 668 | 1.6 | New | |||||
| All for Unity | 246 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| Scottish Family | 228 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 97 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Freedom Alliance (UK) | 114 | 0.3 | New | |||||
| Reform UK | 63 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Renew | 11 | 0.0 | New | |||||
| Libertarian | 73 | 0.2 |  0.0 | |||||
| UKIP | 48 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |||||
| Independent | Martin Keatings | 16 | 0.0 | New | ||||
| Independent | Mercy Kamanja | 0 | 0.0 | New | ||||
| Majority | 6,895 | 16.8 | 2.9 |
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| Valid Votes | 40,891 | 41,026 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 199 | 71 | ||||||
| Turnout | 41,090 | 69.3 | 8.8 |
41,097 | 69.3 | 6.0 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | |||||||
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2010s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Bruce Crawford[lower-alpha 1] | 16,303 | 47.7 | 1.2 |
13,636 | 39.8 | 4.1 | |
| Conservative | Dean Lockhart[lower-alpha 2] | 9,585 | 28.0 | 12.8 |
9,836 | 28.7 | 13.3 | |
| Labour | Rebecca Bell | 6,885 | 20.1 | 10.1 |
5,972 | 17.4 | 9.6 | |
| Scottish Green | 2,858 | 8.3 | 2.6 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Elisabeth Wilson | 1,416 | 4.1 | 0.2 |
1,139 | 3.3 | 0.2 | |
| UKIP | 507 | 1.5 | 0.6 | |||||
| RISE | 162 | 0.5 | New | |||||
| Solidarity | 112 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |||||
| Libertarian | 54 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Majority | 6,718 | 19.7 | 1.0 |
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| Valid Votes | 34,189 | 34,276 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 129 | 58 | ||||||
| Turnout | 34,318 | 61.5 | 3.0 |
34,334 | 63.3 | 4.8 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | 15.4 |
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| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Region | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Bruce Crawford[lower-alpha 1] | 14,858 | 48.9 | N/A | 13,366 | 43.9 | N/A | |
| Labour | John Hendry | 9,188 | 30.2 | N/A | 8,215 | 27.0 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Neil Benny | 4,610 | 15.2 | N/A | 4,684 | 15.4 | N/A | |
| Scottish Green | 1,736 | 5.7 | N/A | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Graham Reed | 1,296 | 4.3 | N/A | 1,058 | 3.5 | N/A | |
| Independent (politician) | Jack Black | 454 | 1.5 | N/A | ||||
| Scottish Senior Citizens | 306 | 1.0 | N/A | |||||
| UKIP | 272 | 0.9 | N/A | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 265 | 0.9 | N/A | |||||
| BNP | 182 | 0.6 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 97 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Christian | 89 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
| CPA | 86 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
| Independent | Andrew Roger | 55 | 0.2 | N/A | ||||
| Solidarity | 27 | 0.1 | N/A | |||||
| Majority | 5,670 | 18.7 | N/A | |||||
| Valid Votes | 30,406 | 30,438 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 109 | 97 | ||||||
| Turnout | 30,515 | 58.5 | N/A | 30,535 | 58.5 | N/A | ||
| SNP win (new boundaries) | ||||||||
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2000s
| 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 | New | |
| Majority | 620 | 1.9 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 32,625 | 62.3 | +5.4 | ||
| SNP gain from Labour | Swing | +9.4 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Sylvia Jackson | 10,661 | 36.0 | −1.8 | |
| Conservative | Brian Monteith | 7,781 | 26.2 | +0.6 | |
| SNP | Bruce Crawford | 5,645 | 19.0 | −7.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Kenyon Wright | 3,432 | 11.6 | +2.1 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Margaret Stewart | 1,486 | 5.0 | New | |
| Scottish People's | Keith Harding | 642 | 2.2 | New | |
| Majority | 2,880 | 9.8 | −1.3 | ||
| Turnout | 29,647 | 56.9 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | −2.0 | |||
1990s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Sylvia Jackson | 13,533 | 37.8 | N/A | |
| SNP | Annabelle Ewing | 9,522 | 26.7 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Brian Monteith | 9,158 | 25.6 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Iain MacFarlane | 3,407 | 9.5 | N/A | |
| Independent | Simon Kilgour | 155 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 3,981 | 11.1 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 35,805 | ||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
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- "First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries Final Report" (PDF). Boundaries Scotland. May 2010. p. 93. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
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