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Galloway and Upper Nithsdale (Scottish Parliament constituency)
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| Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Scottish Parliament county constituency |
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| Galloway and Upper Nithsdale shown within the South of Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland |
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| Created: | 1999 |
| MSP: | Alex Fergusson (politician) |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Council area: | Dumfries and Galloway |
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale 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 South of Scotland 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.
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The other eight constituencies of the South of Scotland region are Ayr, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Clydesdale, Cunninghame South, Dumfries, East Lothian, Roxburgh and Berwickshire and Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale.
The region covers the Dumfries and Galloway council area, the Scottish Borders council area, the South Ayrshire council area, part of the East Ayrshire council area, part of the East Lothian council area, part of the Midlothian council area, part of the North Ayrshire council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council area.
The Galloway and Upper Nithsdale 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, Scottish Westminster (House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies[1].
The Holyrood constituency covers a western portion of the Dumfries and Galloway council area. The rest of the council area is covered by the Dumfries constituency.
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1999 | Alasdair Morgan | Scottish National Party | |
| 2003 | Alex Fergusson | Conservative | |
| 2007 | |||
Note: Although Alex Fergusson was elected as a Conservative candidate in 2007, he later became the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament a post which requires the holder to be independent from any political party.
| Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative Party | Alex Fergusson | 13,387 | 44.2 | +6.0 | |
| Scottish National Party | Alasdair Morgan | 10,054 | 33.2 | −4.7 | |
| Labour Party | Stephen Hodgson | 4,935 | 16.3 | +1.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alastair Cooper | 1,631 | 5.4 | −0.8 | |
| Independent | Sandy Richardson | 311 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
| Majority | 3,333 | 11.0 | |||
| Turnout | 30,318 | 63.4 | +6.0 | ||
| Conservative Party hold | Swing | 5.4 from SNP to Con | |||
| Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative Party | Alex Fergusson | 11,332 | 38.2 | + 8.0 | |
| Scottish National Party | Alasdair Morgan | 11,233 | 37.9 | −1.4 | |
| Labour Party | Norma Harte | 4,299 | 14.5 | −5.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Neil Wallace | 1,847 | 6.2 | −3.9 | |
| Scottish Socialist Party | Joy Cherkaoui | 709 | 2.4 | + 2.3 | |
| Majority | 99 | 0.3 | |||
| Conservative Party gain from Scottish National Party | Swing | 4.6 from SNP to Con | |||
| Scottish Parliament election, 1999: Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Scottish National Party | Alasdair Morgan | 13,873 | 39.3 | n/a | |
| Conservative Party | Alex Fergusson | 10,672 | 30.2 | n/a | |
| Labour Party | Jim Stevens | 7,209 | 20.4 | n/a | |
| Liberal Democrats | Joan Mitchell | 3,562 | 10.1 | n/a | |
| Majority | 3,201 | 9.1 | n/a | ||
