Moray (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Moray (UK Parliament constituency).

Moray
county constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Moray shown within the Highlands and Islands electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	1999
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	Richard Lochhead
Council area	Moray

Moray 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 eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to eight constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Electoral region

The Moray constituency is part of the Highlands and Islands electoral region; the other seven constituencies are Argyll and Bute, Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Inverness and Nairn, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Orkney, Shetland and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.

The region covers most of Argyll and Bute council area, all of the Highland council area, most of the Moray council area, all of the Orkney Islands council area, all of the Shetland Islands council area and all of Na h-Eileanan Siar.

Constituency boundaries and council area

The Moray constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency was enlarged slightly.^[1]

The Holyrood constituency covers most of the Moray council area; the rest of the council area is covered by the Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency, which is in the North East Scotland electoral region. The Moray Westminster constituency has covered the whole of the council area since 2005.

The electoral wards used in the creation of the Moray constituency are:

In full: Speyside-Glenlivet, Fochabers-Lhanbryde, Heldon and Laich, Elgin City North, Elgin City South and Forres
In part: Keith and Cullen (shared with Banffshire and Buchan Coast)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

	Member	Party
1999	Margaret Ewing	Scottish National Party
2003	Margaret Ewing
2006 by-election	Richard Lochhead
2007
2011
2016

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Moray
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Richard Lochhead	15,742	47.1	-11.7
	Conservative	Douglas Ross	12,867	38.5	+18.0
	Labour	Sean Morton	3,547	10.6	-1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Jamie Paterson	1,265	3.8	-0.8
Majority			2,875	8.6	-29.7
Turnout			33,421	53.9	+3.4
	SNP hold		Swing	-14.9

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Moray
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Richard Lochhead	16,817	58.8	+9.0
	Conservative	Douglas Ross	5,873	20.5	-3.3
	Labour	Kieron Green	3,580	12.5	-1.6
	Liberal Democrats	Jamie Paterson	1,327	4.6	-7.5
	UKIP	Donald Gatt	999	3.5	+3.5
Majority			10,944	38.3
Turnout			28,596	50.5
	SNP hold		Swing

Liberal Democrats and UKIP both gained under 5% of the poll and thus lost their deposit

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Moray
Party		Votes	%
	SNP	14,007	49.8
	Conservative	6,721	23.9
	Labour	3,959	14.1
	Liberal Democrats	3,413	12.1
	Others	40	0.1
Majority		7,286	25.9
	SNP hold	Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Moray
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Richard Lochhead	15,045	49.7	+7.5
	Conservative	Mary Scanlon	7,121	23.5	+1.0
	Labour	Lee Butcher	4,580	15.1	-4.0
	Liberal Democrats	Dominique Rommel	3,528	11.6	-0.6
Majority			7,924	26.2
Turnout			30,274	50.1	+3.8
	SNP hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament by-election, 2006: Moray
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Richard Lochhead	12,653	46.15	+3.95
	Conservative	Mary Scanlon	6,268	22.86	+0.35
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Gorn	5,310	19.37	+7.20
	Labour	Sandy Keith	2,696	9.83	-9.28
	NHSFirst Party	Melville Brown	493	1.80	N/A
Majority			6385	23.3	+3.6
Turnout			27,420	45.5	-0.8
	SNP hold		Swing	+1.8

Scottish Parliament Election 2003: Moray
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Margaret Ewing	11,384	42.19%	+4.40%
	Conservative	Tim Wood	6,072	22.50%	-3.09%
	Labour	Peter Peacock	5,157	19.11%	-7.03%
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Gorn	3,283	12.16%	+3.06%
	Scottish Socialist	Norma Anderson	1,015	4.02%	N/A
Majority			5,312	19.69%
Turnout
	SNP hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament Election 1999: Moray
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Margaret Ewing	13,027	38.79%	n/a
	Labour	Ali Farquharson	8,898	26.50%	n/a
	Conservative	Andrew Findlay	8,595	25.59%	n/a
	Liberal Democrats	Patsy Kenton	3,056	9.10%	n/a
Majority			4,129	12.30%	n/a
Turnout
	SNP hold		Swing

Notes

↑ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland

« 1999–2011 « Electoral regions and constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 2011–

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Provan Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Southside Rutherglen

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Ross Inverness and Nairn Moray Na h-Eileanan an Iar Orkney Shetland Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

Lothian	Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh

Mid Scotland and Fife	Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Mid Fife and Glenrothes North East Fife Perthshire North Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen Donside Aberdeen South and North Kincardine Aberdeenshire East Aberdeenshire West Angus North and Mearns Angus South Banffshire and Buchan Coast Dundee City East Dundee City West

South Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Dumfriesshire East Lothian Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire Galloway and West Dumfries Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley Midlothian South, Tweeddale, and Lauderdale

West Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Cunninghame South Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley Renfrewshire North and West Renfrewshire South Strathkelvin and Bearsden

Electoral regions and Constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2011 » 2011– »

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton North and Bellshill Hamilton South Kilmarnock and Loudoun Motherwell and Wishaw

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Baillieston Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Govan Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Rutherglen Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Springburn

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber Moray Orkney Ross, Skye and Inverness West Shetland Western Isles

Lothians	Edinburgh Central Edinburgh East and Musselburgh Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh South Edinburgh West Linlithgow Livingston Midlothian

Mid Scotland and Fife	Central Fife Dunfermline East Dunfermline West Kirkcaldy North East Fife North Tayside Ochil Perth Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Angus Banff and Buchan Dundee East Dundee West Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

South of Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

West of Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley North Paisley South Strathkelvin and Bearsden West Renfrewshire

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