Angus (UK Parliament constituency)

UK constituency infobox alt
Name = Angus


Type = County
Entity = Scotland
DivisionType = Council areas
Division = Angus
Year = 1997
MP = Michael Weir
Party = Scottish National Party
EP = Scotland

Angus is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It was created for the 1997 general election, largely replacing East Angus. It is now a marginal seat between the Scottish National Party and the Conservatives. As a result of boundary changes for the 2005 general election, boundaries are now quite different from those of the Angus Scottish Parliament constituency, which was created in 1999.

Boundaries

The constituency covers the Angus council area, minus an area round the Dundee City council area, which is divided between the Dundee East and Dundee West constituencies.

Until the 2005 general election, it covered the south-east of the Angus council area, north-eastern and north-western areas of the Dundee City council area, and a small eastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area. The north-west of the Angus council area was within the North Tayside constituency.

Scottish Parliament constituencies retain the older boundaries.

Major towns in the House of Commons constituency are Arbroath, Brechin, Forfar and Montrose.

History

Member of Parliament

*Michael Weir, SNP (2001–"present")
*Andrew Welsh, SNP (1997–2001)

Election results

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Alberto Costa
votes =
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Scottish National Party
candidate = Michael Weir
votes =
percentage =
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Scottish National Party
candidate = Michael Weir
votes = 12,840
percentage = 33.7
change = +0.5Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Sandy Bushby
votes = 11,239
percentage = 29.5
change = −2.1Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Douglas Bradley
votes = 6,850
percentage = 18.0
change = −0.3Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Rev Scott Rennie
votes = 6,660
percentage = 17.5
change = +2.7Election box candidate with party link
party = Scottish Socialist Party
candidate = Alan Manley
votes = 556
percentage = 1.5
change = −0.4Election box majority
votes = 1,601
percentage = 4.2
change = Election box turnout
votes = 38,145
percentage = 60.5
change = +6.4Election box hold with party link
winner = Scottish National Party
swing = +1.3

Election box begin
title=General Election 2001: Anguscite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/012.stm|title=Vote2001: Results & Constituencies|work=BBC News|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=2008-07-26] Election box candidate with party link
party = Scottish National Party
candidate = Michael Weir
votes = 12,347
percentage = 35.3
change = −13.0Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Marcus Booth
votes = 8,736
percentage = 25.0
change = +0.4Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Ian McFatridge
votes = 8,183
percentage = 23.4
change = +7.8Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Peter Nield
votes = 5,015
percentage = 14.3
change = +4.9Election box candidate with party link
party = Scottish Socialist Party
candidate = Bruce Wallace
votes = 732
percentage = 2.1
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 3,611
percentage = 10.3
change = Election box turnout
votes = 35,013
percentage = 59.3
change = −12.8Election box hold with party link
winner = Scottish National Party
swing =

Election box begin
title=General Election 1997: AngusElection box candidate with party link
party = Scottish National Party
candidate = Andrew Welsh
votes = 20,792
percentage = 48.3
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Sebastian Leslie
votes = 10,603
percentage = 24.6
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Catherine Taylor
votes = 6,733
percentage = 15.6
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Dick Speirs
votes = 4,065
percentage = 9.4
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Referendum Party
candidate = Brian Taylor
votes = 883
percentage = 2.0
change = Election box majority
votes = 10,189
percentage = 23.7
change = Election box turnout
votes = 43,076
percentage = 72.1
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Scottish National Party
swing =

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