Galloway and Upper Nithsdale (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Galloway and Upper Nithsdale County constituency |
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|---|---|
| Created: | 1983 |
| Abolished: | 2005 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale was a county constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election (partly replacing the former Galloway constituency), and abolished for the 2005 general election, when it was replaced by Dumfries and Galloway.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Ian Lang, later Baron Lang of Monkton | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Alasdair Morgan | Scottish National Party | |
| 2001 | Peter Duncan | Conservative | |
| 2005 | constituency abolished: see Dumfries and Galloway | ||
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2001: Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Peter Duncan | 12,222 | 34.0 | +3.5 | |
| Scottish National Party | Malcolm Fleming | 12,148 | 33.8 | -10.1 | |
| Labour | Thomas Sloan | 7,258 | 20.2 | +3.9 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Neil Wallace | 3,698 | 10.3 | +3.9 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Andy Harvey | 588 | 1.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 74 | 0.2 | |||
| Turnout | 35,914 | 67.4 | -12.2 | ||
| Conservative gain from Scottish National Party | Swing | ||||
