Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (UK Parliament constituency)

Edinburgh East and Musselburgh was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster) from 1997 to 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Edinburgh East and Musselburgh in Scotland for the 2001 general election
Subdivisions of Scotland	City of Edinburgh East Lothian
1997–2005
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Edinburgh East East Lothian
Created from	Edinburgh East

In 1999, a Scottish Parliament constituency was created with the same name and boundaries, and continued in use until 2011. See Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (Scottish Parliament constituency).

Boundaries

Electoral divisions 27 (Meadowbank/Mountcastle), 28 (Links/Restalrig), 29 (Portobello/Milton), 38 (Craigmillar/Duddingston) in City of Edinburgh District; electoral division 44 (Musselburgh/Fisherrow) in East Lothian District.

The constituency covered an eastern portion of the City of Edinburgh council area and a Musselburgh area within the East Lothian council area. It was one of six constituencies covering the City of Edinburgh area, and one of two covering the East Lothian area. The constituency was predominantly urban.

For the 2005 general election, most of the constituency was merged into the new Edinburgh East constituency. The rest of the constituency, the Musselburgh area, was merged into the East Lothian constituency.[1]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [2]	Party
	1997	Gavin Strang	Labour
2005		constituency abolished - see Edinburgh East

Election results

Elections of the 2000s

General election 2001: Edinburgh East & Musselburgh[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gavin Strang	18,124	52.6	−1.0
	SNP	Rob Munn	5,956	17.3	−1.8
	Liberal Democrats	Gary Peacock	4,981	14.5	+3.8
	Conservative	Peter Finnie	3,906	11.3	−4.1
	Scottish Socialist	Derek Durkin	1,487	4.3	New
Majority			12,168	35.3	+0.8
Turnout			34,454	58.2	−12.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections of the 1990s

General election 1997: Edinburgh East and Musselburgh[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gavin Strang	22,564	53.6
	SNP	Derrick White	8,034	19.1
	Conservative	Kenneth F. Ward	6,483	15.4
	Liberal Democrats	Callum I. MacKellar	4,511	10.7
	Referendum	James A. Sibbet	526	1.2
Majority			14,530	34.5
Turnout			42,118	70.6
	Labour win (new seat)

Notes and references

1. Fifth Periodical Review, Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
3. "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
4. "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

See also

• Politics of Edinburgh