Aberdeenshire East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with East Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency).

Aberdeenshire East
county constituency for the Scottish Parliament
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Aberdeenshire East shown within the North East Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	Gillian Martin
Council area	Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire 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.

Electoral region

See also: North East Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

The other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region are Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen Donside, Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns, Angus South, Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Dundee City East 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

Aberdeenshire is represented by four constituencies in the Scottish Parliament: Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns and Banffshire and Buchan Coast.

The electoral wards used in the creation of Aberdeenshire East are:

• In full: Central Buchan, Turriff and District, Mid Formartine, Ellon and District, Inverurie and District
• In part: Peterhead South and Cruden (shared with Banffshire and Buchan Coast), East Garioch (shared with Aberdeenshire West)

It was created for the 2011 election, mostly replacing Gordon.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	2011	Alex Salmond	SNP
	2016	Gillian Martin

Election results

Scottish Parliament Election 2016: Aberdeenshire East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Gillian Martin	15,912	45.8	-18.7
	Conservative	Colin Clark	10,075	29.0	+15.1
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Jardine	6,611	19.0	+5.0
	Labour	Sarah Flavell	2,155	6.2	-1.4
Majority			5,837	16.8
Turnout			34,753	55.3
	SNP hold		Swing	-16.9

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Aberdeenshire East
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Y Alex Salmond		19,533	64.50	+19.83	17,795	58.74
	Liberal Democrats	Alison McInnes		4,238	13.99	-16.58	3,169	10.46
	Conservative	Geordie Burnett Stuart		4,211	13.90	-1.88	4,255	13.95
	Labour	Peter Smyth		2,304	7.61	-0.44	2,209	7.29
	Scottish Green						1,374	4.54
	Scottish Senior Citizens						407	1.34
	UKIP						263	0.87
	BNP						235	0.78
	Scottish Christian						192	0.63
	Independent - John Cox						124	0.41
	Socialist Labour						101	0.33
	Scottish Socialist						84	0.28
	National Front						62	0.20
	Independent - David Henderson						28	0.09
	Independent - Andrew McBride						12	0.04
	Solidarity						12	0.04
	Angus Independents Representatives						5	0.02
Informal votes				81			77
Total Valid votes				30,286			30,297
	SNP hold		Majority	15,295	50.50

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Aberdeenshire East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP		14,372	44.7
	Liberal Democrats		9,837	30.6
	Conservative		5,076	15.8
	Labour		2,591	8.1
	Others		298	0.9
Majority			4,535	14.1
	SNP hold		Swing

See also

Preceded by Gordon

Constituency represented by the First Minister 2011 – 2014

Succeeded by Glasgow Southside