North East Scotland

North East Scotland is one of the eight electoral areas for the Scottish Parliament through which 7 of the 56 Additional Members System MSPs are elected.

It covers an area including the areas of the Aberdeenshire, City of Aberdeen, and City of Dundee local authorities and the majority of Angus.

Scottish Parliament Vote, 1999

Political Party	Votes	Share of Vote (%)	% Change	List Seats Won
SNP	93,329	32.3	N/A	4
Labour	72,666	25.5	N/A	0
Conservative	52,149	18.3	N/A	3
Lib-Dems	49,843	17.5	N/A	0
Greens	8,067	2.8	N/A	0
SLP	3,557	1.2	N/A	0
SSP	3,016	1.1	N/A	0
Independent	2,303	0.8	N/A	0
Independent	770	0.3	N/A	0
NLP	746	0.3	N/A	0

MSPs Elected:

Conservative - David Davidson, Ben Wallace, Alex Johnstone
SNP - Brian Adam, Richard Lochhead, Shona Robison, Scottish Parliamentary Election, 1999

Scottish Parliament Vote, 2003

Political Party

Votes

Share of Vote (%)

% Change

List Seats Won

66,463

27.3

-5.0

1

49,189

20.2

-5.3

2

45,831

18.8

+1.3

0

42,318

17.4

-0.9

3

12,724

5.2

+2.4

1

10,226

4.2

+3.1

0

5,584

2.3

N/A

0

5,566

2.3

N/A

0

2,431

1.0

-0.2

0

1,498

0.6

N/A

0

David Davidson, Alex Johnstone, Nanette Milne

Labour - Marlyn Glen, Richard Baker
SNP - Richard Lochhead
Green - Scottish Parliamentary Election, 2003


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