Scottish Voting Results Scottish Results 2016 1. Aberdeen Central 25. Dundee City East 51. Inverness and Nairn 60 2. Aberdeen Donside 26. Dundee City West 52. Kilmarnock and 3. Aberdeen South and North 27. Dunfermline Irvine Valley Kincardine 28. East Kilbride 53. Kirkcaldy 13 4. Aberdeenshire East 29. East Lothian 54. Linlithgow 5. Aberdeenshire West 30. Eastwood 55. Mid Fife and Glenrothes 62 69 6. Airdrie and Shotts 31. Edinburgh Central 56. Midlothian North & 7. Almond Valley 32. Edinburgh Eastern Musselburgh 8. Angus North and Mearns 33. Edinburgh Northern and Leith 57. Midlothian South, 9. Angus South 34. Edinburgh Pentlands Tweeddale and Lauderdale 12 10. Argyll and Bute 35. Edinburgh Southern 58. Moray 58 11. Ayr 36. Edinburgh Western 59. Motherwell and Wishaw 4 12. Banffshire and Buchan 37. Ettrick, Roxburgh and 60. Na h-Eileanan an Iar 51 Coast Berwickshire 61. North East Fife 2 13. Caithness, Sutherland and 38. Falkirk East 62. Orkney Islands Ross 39. Falkirk West 63. Paisley 5 1 14. Carrick, Cumnock and 40. Galloway and West Dumfries 64. Perthshire North 70 Doon Valley 41. Glasgow Anniesland 65. Perthshire South and 3 15. Clackmannanshire and 42. Glasgow Cathcart Kinross-shire Dunblane 43. Glasgow Kelvin 66. Renfrewshire North and West 8 16. Clydebank and Milngavie 44. Glasgow Maryhill and 67. Renfrewshire South 9 17. Clydesdale Springburn 68. Rutherglen 64 18. Coatbridge and Chryston 45. Glasgow Pollok 69. Shetland Islands 19. Cowdenbeath 46. Glasgow Provan 70. Skye, Lochaber and 25 20. Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 47. Glasgow Shettleston Badenoch 71 21. Cunninghame North 48. Glasgow Southside 71. Stirling 10 65 61 22. Cunninghame South 49. Greenock and Inverclyde 72. Strathkelvin and Bearsden 26 55 23. Dumbarton 50. Hamilton, Larkhall and 73. Uddingston and Bellshill 15 24. Dumfriesshire Stonehouse 29 27 53 19 22 52 57 39 21 17 20 11 38 38 16 72 36 33 CON 49 54 70 31 32 14 35 66 41 44 18 GREEN 43 46 34 56 24 45 48 6 63 47 7 LAB 68 40 67 42 73 28 59 LDEM 30 50 SNP Scottish Regional Results 2016 1 1 1. Highlands and Islands 2. North East Scotland 1 2 3. Mid Scotland and Fife 4. West Scotland 5. Glasgow 3 6. Central Scotland 7. Lothian 7 8. South Scotland 4 5 6 8 1. Aberdeen Central - Kevin Stewart (SNP) Click to return 2016 RESULT Kevin was born and grew up in Aberdeen. His parliamentary career was preceded by his work for Aberdeen City Council for twelve years, where he was a councillor and leader of the SNP. In 2007, he took the party's 12 councillors into coalition with the Liberal Democrats, and was appointed as Deputy Leader of the Council. During this time he became convenor of the Finance and Resources Committee. He also served on NESTRANS, the Regional Transport Partnership and the 3Rs Board. Kevin surprised everyone by defeating Lewis Macdonald MSP in the race for Aberdeen Central at the 2011 Scottish 2011 RESULT Elections. His roles in Parliament included; Convener of the Local Government and Regeneration Committee and a member of the Welfare Reform and Justice committees. Aberdeen Central was formerly a safe Labour seat under Lewis MacDonald, but it succumbed to the SNP in the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections, with a large swing to Kevin Stewart MSP. The seat was previously at the heart of the booming Aberdeen oil-fuelled economy, with relatively high wages and low unemployment, but economic fortunes have changed with the lower oil price. 2. Aberdeen Donside – Mark McDonald (SNP) Click to return 2016 RESULT Mark attended Dyce Primary School and Dyce Academy. He gained an MA in Politics from the University of Dundee and an MLitt in Strategic Studies from the University of Aberdeen. Prior to being elected he acted as a parliamentary researcher to a number of North East MSPs; Richard Lochhead, Maureen Watt, and Nigel Don. He has recently served as Parliamentary Liaison Officer to the First Minister and Finance Secretary. He was first elected to Aberdeen City Council in 2007, at the age of 26. He was elected to Scottish Parliament in 2011 and stepped down from his position as Deputy Leader of the SNP Group in the Council, though he continued in his role as councillor until the Local Elections in 2012. Mark has been a member of many committees in the Parliament, more recently he sat on the Finance Committee 2011 RESULT and the Devolution & Further Powers Committee. He was on a number of CPGs including; Oil & Gas, Carers, Epilepsy and Mental Health (which he co-convened). One of the longer-standing SNP constituencies, it was previously held by Brian Adam MSP before Mark McDonald MSP successfully retained the seat in a by-election contest following Adam’s death. The seat previously benefitted from the Aberdeen oil boom and has since suffered from the lower oil price. 3. Aberdeen South and North Kincardine Click to return – Maureen Watt (SNP) 2016 RESULT Maureen was born in Aberdeen and brought up on a farm outside Keith in Banffshire. She received an honours degree in Politics from Strathclyde University and went onto study at Birmingham University where she gained a postgrad in education. She worked as a Social Studies teacher in Reading before returning to Scotland where she was an HR assistant for an Aberdeenshire oil company. Maureen was a member of a variety of committees, including Public Petitions, Rural Affairs and Environment and Justice. She was co-convener of the CPG group for Oil and Gas. She entered the Scottish Parliament in April 2006 as a regional MSP for North East Scotland. Maureen served as Minister for Schools and Skills in the first ever SNP Government between 2007 until 2009. In 2011 Maureen was elected to the constituency seat of Aberdeen South and North Kincardine with a majority of 6,323. 2011 RESULT In November 2014, Maureen was chosen by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to become Minister for Public Health. Her son Stuart Donaldson, was elected MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine in the 2015 General Election. Held by the SNP since 2011 when it switched from a prolonged period of voting Lib Dem, this has remained in SNP hands. The constituency includes some poorer social housing areas of the city, as well as affluent areas, which is suffering from the overall downturn in the oil price. 4. Aberdeenshire East – Gillian Martin (SNP) Click to return 2016 RESULT Gillian was brought up in Newburgh, Aberdeenshire and now lives in Newmachar, also in the Aberdeenshire constituency. In 2015 she was selected to stand in Alex Salmond’s former seat of Aberdeenshire East. Gillian was the founder of the Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire branch of Women for Independence. Gillian received several high profile endorsements during the campaign, and was joined on the trail by Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon and Stewart Hosie. Her constituency campaign focused on rural issues as well as the need to support the oil and gas sector in the North East. Gillian is a graduate of the University of Glasgow and has worked as a college lecturer in television production for 15 years. During this time Gillian has also running her own business in video production, creating videos for education and for oil and gas sector training. 2011 RESULT Alex Salmond famously returned to the Scottish Parliament in 2007 when he took this seat from the Lib Dems. Since then there has been no looking back for the SNP as they have continued to garner votes. A very prosperous part of Scotland, it has nevertheless faced the same economic issues as neighbouring constituencies with the downturn in the oil price. 5. Aberdeenshire West – Alexander Burnett (Con) Click to return 2016 RESULT Alexander is a member of the ancient Burnett of Leys family and owner of the Leys Estate near Banchory in Aberdeenshire. Crathes Castle, which is situated on the estate, was the family’s home until it was gifted to the National Trust in 1952. Alexander was educated at Eton and Newcastle University, where he graduated with an LLB. Alexander is currently the Director of the Bancon Group, a group of companies that cover all aspects of the construction and development industry from building houses, educational, hotels, offices etc. including timber frame design and manufacture. His other business interests include the North Banchory Company, a property letting company and the Hill of Banchory ESCo – this company runs the first and largest private sector biomass district heating scheme in the UK. Alexander is also director of the Wuidchips Company, a woodchips supply company which fuels the district heating scheme. 2011 RESULT Alexander previously stood as the Conservative candidate at the 2015 Westminster election in the Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine seat, losing out to the SNP’s Stuart Donaldson. Dennis Robertson first took this seat in 2011, defeating sitting MSP Mike Rumbles. The SNP further consolidated their vote locally in the Westminster elections. A very prosperous part of Scotland, it has nevertheless faced the same economic issues as neighbouring constituencies with the downturn in the oil price. A surprise victory for the Conservatives, Alexander Burnett beat the incumbent SNP MSP, Dennis Robertson by a margin of 900 votes. This translated to 2.6% of the overall vote and represented a swing of +17% for the Tories. 6. Airdrie and Shotts – Alex Neil (SNP) Click to return 2016 RESULT Alex was born in Irvine and attended Ayr Academy. He studied at Dundee University, graduating with MA Hons in Economics. He was proprietor of his own economic consultancy business. A former Chairman of a Scottish & National organisation of Labour students, he left the Labour party in 1976 to help form the Scottish Labour Party.