Dundee City East 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 ten constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
| Dundee City East | |
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| Burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
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| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2011 |
| Party | Scottish National Party |
| MSP | Shona Robison |
| Council area | Dundee City |
| Created from | Dundee East |
For the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, Dundee East was redrawn slightly (the only differences being the removal of the 'Hebrides' neighbourhood at Claverhouse just west of the A90 road, and the addition of new housing developments north of the A92 road near Barnhill)[1][2] and renamed Dundee City East.
The other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region are Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen Donside, Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns, Angus South, Banffshire and Buchan Coast and Dundee City West.
The region covers all of the Aberdeen City council area, the Aberdeenshire council area, the Angus council area, the Dundee City council area and part of the Moray council area.
The Dundee East 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 boundaries of the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency were subject to some alteration.
Dundee City is represented by two constituencies in the Scottish Parliament: Dundee City East and Dundee City West.
From the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the redrawn and renamed Dundee City East constituency consists of the following electoral wards:
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | | 2011 | Shona Robison | Scottish National Party |
| style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | | 2016 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| Conservative | Philip Scott | |||||||
| SNP | Shona Robison[a] | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Crichton | |||||||
| TUSC | Wayne Scott | |||||||
| Labour | Owen Wright | |||||||
| Abolish the Scottish Parliament | ||||||||
| Alba | ||||||||
| All for Unity | ||||||||
| Freedom Alliance (UK) | ||||||||
| Independent Green Voice | ||||||||
| Reform UK | ||||||||
| Renew | ||||||||
| Restore Scotland | ||||||||
| Scottish Family | ||||||||
| Scottish Green | ||||||||
| Scottish Libertarian | ||||||||
| UKIP | ||||||||
| Independent | Geoffrey Farquharson | |||||||
| Independent | Laura Marshall | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Shona Robison[a] | 16,509 | 58.1 |  6.2
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15,159 | 53.2 | ||
| Labour | Richard McCready | 5,611 | 19.7 | 3.0
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5,109 | 17.9 | ||
| Conservative | Bill Bowman | 4,969 | 17.5 |  7.6
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5,095 | 17.9 | ||
| Scottish Green | 1,475 | 5.2 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Craig Duncan | 911 | 3.2 | 0.1
|
691 | 2.5 | ||
| UKIP | 471 | 1.7 | ||||||
| TUSC | Leah Ganley | 437 | 1.5 | New | ||||
| Solidarity | 152 | 0.5 | ||||||
| Scottish Christian | 137 | 0.5 | ||||||
| RISE | 77 | 0.3 | ||||||
| National Front | 64 | 0.2 | ||||||
| Communist | 50 | 0.2 | ||||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 23 | 0.1 | ||||||
| Majority | 10,898 | 38.4 | 3.0
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| Turnout | 51.5 | 4.1
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28,566 | 51.7 | ||||
| SNP hold | Swing | 4.6
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Notes | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Shona Robison | 16,541 | 64.2 | +15.1 | |
| Labour | Mohammed Asif | 5,862 | 22.8 | -9.7 | |
| Conservative | Brian Docherty | 2,550 | 9.9 | -1.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Allan Petrie | 800 | 3.1 | -3.9 | |
| Majority | 10,679 | 41.4 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 25,753 | 47.4 | N/A | ||
| SNP win (new seat) | |||||