Banffshire and Buchan Coast (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Banffshire and Buchan Coast
county constituency for the Scottish Parliament
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Banffshire and Buchan Coast shown within the North East Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	Stewart Stevenson
Council area	Aberdeenshire Moray

Banffshire and Buchan Coast 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. It is one also 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 East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns, Angus South, 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 rest of Moray is represented by the Moray constituency.

Following the First Periodic review of constituencies for the Scottish Parliament, Banff and Buchan became the newly drawn seat of Banffshire and Buchan Coast at the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

The electoral wards used in the creation of Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency are:

• In full: Banff and District, Troup, Fraserburgh and District, Peterhead North and Rattray, Buckie
• In part: Peterhead South and Cruden (shared with Aberdeenshire East), Keith and Cullen (shared with Moray)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	2011	Stewart Stevenson	Scottish National Party
	2016

Election results

Scottish Parliament general election, 2016: Banffshire and Buchan Coast

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Stewart Stevenson	15,802	55.1	-12.1
	Conservative	Peter Chapman	9,219	32.1	+13.8
	Labour	Nathan Morrison	2,372	8.3	-2.3
	Liberal Democrats	David Evans	1,290	4.5	+0.7
Majority			6,683	23%
Turnout			28,822	48.5
	SNP hold		Swing	-13%

Scottish Parliament general election, 2011: Banffshire and Buchan Coast

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Stewart Stevenson	16,812	67.2	+9.6
	Conservative	Michael Watt	4,592	18.4	-1.1
	Labour	Alan Duffill	2,642	10.6	-1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Galen Milne	958	3.8	-5.7
Majority			12,220	48.8	+10.2
Turnout			25,004	46.1
	SNP hold		Swing	+3.5%

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Banffshire and Buchan Coast

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP		18,084	58.6
	Conservative		6,002	19.5
	Labour		3,784	12.3
	Liberal Democrats		2,928	9.5
	Others		52	0.2
Majority			12,082	39.2
	SNP hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament general election, 2007: Banff and Buchan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Stewart Stevenson	16,031	58.8	+5.8
	Conservative	Geordie Burnett Stuart	5,501	20.2	-0.7
	Labour	Kay Barnett	3,136	11.5	+0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Alison McInnes	2,617	9.6	+1.1
Majority			10,530	38.6	+6.6
Turnout			27,285	48.4
	SNP hold		Swing	+3.3%