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Dundee City East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dundee City East
Burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	Shona Robison
Council area	Dundee City
Created from	Dundee East

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.

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.

Electoral region

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.

Constituency boundaries and 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:

• In full: East End, The Ferry
• In part: Coldside, Maryfield, North East (shared with Dundee City West)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election results

2020s

2010s

2016 Scottish Parliament election: Dundee City East^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Shona Robison[a]	16,509	58.1	6.2	15,159	53.2
	Labour	Richard McCready	5,611	19.7	3.0	5,109	17.9
	Conservative	Bill Bowman	4,969	17.5	7.6	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
Turnout				51.5	4.1	28,566	51.7
	SNP hold		Swing		4.6
Notes ^ a b Incumbent member for this constituency

See also

• Politics of Dundee

References