Constituencies and Council Areas
The Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland related the boundaries of new constituencies to those of Scottish local government council areas and to local government wards. Apart from a few minor adjustments, the council area boundaries dated from 1996 and the ward boundaries dated from 1999. Some council areas were grouped to form larger areas and, within these larger areas, some constituencies straddle council area boundaries.
The same council area and ward boundaries were in use when the new constituencies were first used in 2005, but ward boundaries have changed since then. New wards were introduced for the 2007 Scottish local government elections.
| Council areas | Constituencies |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire | Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Banff and Buchan Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine |
| Angus and Dundee City | Angus Dundee East Dundee West |
| Argyll and Bute | Argyll and Bute |
| City of Edinburgh | Edinburgh East Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh South Edinburgh South West Edinburgh West |
| Clackmannanshire and Perth and Kinross | Ochil and South Perthshire Perth and North Perthshire |
| Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders and South Lanarkshire | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Dumfries and Galloway Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow Lanark and Hamilton East Rutherglen and Hamilton West |
| East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock Central Ayrshire Kilmarnock and Loudoun North Ayrshire and Arran |
| East Dunbartonshire and North Lanarkshire | Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East East Dunbartonshire Motherwell and Wishaw |
| East Lothian | East Lothian |
| East Renfrewshire | East Renfrewshire |
| Falkirk and West Lothian | Falkirk Linlithgow and East Falkirk Livingston |
| Fife | Dunfermline and West Fife Glenrothes Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath North East Fife |
| Glasgow City | Glasgow Central Glasgow East Glasgow North Glasgow North East Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West |
| Highland | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Ross, Skye and Lochaber |
| Inverclyde | Inverclyde |
| Midlothian | Midlothian |
| Moray | Moray |
| Na h-Eileanan Siar | Na h-Eileanan an Iar |
| Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands | Orkney and Shetland |
| Renfrewshire | Paisley and Renfrewshire North Paisley and Renfrewshire South |
| Stirling | Stirling |
| West Dunbartonshire | West Dunbartonshire |
Read more about this topic: Scottish Westminster Constituencies From 2005
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