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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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6 May 1999
Sarah Herriot Boyack	Labour Party	14,224	38.02
Ian Hume McKee	Scottish National Party	9,598	25.65
Andrew Bruce Myles	Liberal Democrats	6,187	16.54
Jacqui Low	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,018	16.09
Kevin J Williamson	Scottish Socialist	830	2.22
Brian Allingham	Independent	364	0.97
William Wallace	Independent	191	0.51
Majority		4,626	12.37

1 May 2003		28,014/60,807	46.07
Sarah Herriot Boyack	Labour Party	9,066	32.36
Andrew Bruce Myles	Liberal Democrats	6,400	22.85
Kevin James Pringle	Scottish National Party	4,965	17.72
Peter Weldon Llewelyn Finnie	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,802	17.14
Catriona Mary Grant	Scottish Socialist	2,552	9.11
James Sidney O'Neill	Scottish Peoples Alliance	229	0.82
Majority		2,666	9.52

3 May 2007		29,396/55,953	52.54
Sarah Herriot Boyack	Labour Party	9,155	31.14
Siobhan Mathers	Liberal Democrats	7,962	27.09
Shirley-Anne Somerville	Scottish National Party	7,496	25.50
Fiona Houston	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,783	16.27
Majority		1,193	4.06

Boundary Change
5 May 2011		29,014/53,606	54.12
Marco Biagi	Scottish National Party	9,480	32.67
Sarah Herriot Boyack	Labour Party	9,243	31.86
Alexander Geoffrey Cole-Hamilton	Liberal Democrats	5,937	20.46
Iain McGill	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,354	15.01
Majority		237	0.82

5 May 2016		34,169/59,581	57.35
Ruth Elizabeth Davidson	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,399	30.43
Alison Dickie	Scottish National Party	9,789	28.65
Sarah Herriot Boyack	Labour Party	7,546	22.08
Alison Johnstone	Green Party	4,644	13.59
Hannah Bettsworth	Liberal Democrats	1,672	4.89
Tom Laird	Scottish Libertarian	119	0.35
Majority		610	1.79

6 May 2021		41,713/66,734	62.51
Rt Hon Angus Struan Carolus Robertson	Scottish National Party	16,276	39.02
Scott Douglas	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,544	27.67
Madelaine Kirkman	Labour Party	6,839	16.40
Alison Johnstone	Green Party	3,921	9.40
Bruce Roy Wilson	Liberal Democrats	2,555	6.13
Bonnie Prince Bob	Independent	363	0.87
Tam Laird	Libertarian	137	0.33
Donald Murdo Mackay	UK Independence Party	78	0.19
Majority		4,732	11.34