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West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1997 onwards

Summary

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1997 onwards

Field	Value
name	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
parliament	uk
map_entity	Scotland
year	1997
year2	1918
abolished2	1950
type	County
previous	Kincardine and Deeside
previous2	Aberdeenshire Western and Kincardineshire
next2	West Aberdeenshire and North Angus and Mearns
electorate	73,364 (March 2020)
mp	Andrew Bowie
party	Conservative
towns	Laurencekirk, Portlethen, Stonehaven, Banchory, Braemar
european	Scotland
image	[[File:WestAberdeenshireKincardine2024Constituency.svg	258px]]	caption=Boundary of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine in Scotland

West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Westminster), which elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was first used in the 1997 general election, but has undergone boundary changes since that date. The constituency was re-established in 1997, having previously existed as Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire from 1918 to 1950.

The seat has been held since 2017 by Andrew Bowie of the Conservative Party.

There was also a Holyrood constituency of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine in the Scottish Parliament from 1999 to 2011 with the same boundaries as the Westminster constituency at that time.

Boundaries

1918–1950

In 1868, the constituency of Aberdeenshire was divided into Aberdeenshire Eastern and Aberdeenshire Western divisions. These continued as constituencies until 1918, when the county of Aberdeenshire and the county of Kincardineshire were treated as if a single county for parliamentary representation purposes, with the area of the former Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire constituencies being divided into three new constituencies, Aberdeen and Kincardine East, Aberdeen and Kincardine Central and Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West. In 1950 the Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire counties were separated again, and a new boundary divided the Aberdeenshire area into East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire.

1997–2005

Kincardine and Deeside District, and the Gordon District electoral divisions of Donside and South Gordon.

2005–present

Under the Fifth Review of UK Parliament constituencies of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, the constituency was defined as comprising the area of the Aberdeenshire Council other than those parts in the Banff and Buchan County Constituency and the Gordon County Constituency. Under the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the boundaries were unchanged.

Further to reviews of local government ward boundaries which came into effect in 2007 and 2017, but did not affect the parliamentary boundaries, the contents of the constituency are now defined as comprising the following Aberdeenshire Council wards and part wards:

In full: Westhill and District, Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside, Banchory and Mid Deeside, North Kincardine, Stonehaven and Lower Deeside, Mearns.
In part: West Garioch1 (minority, including Kemnay), East Garioch1 (minority, including Blackburn), Huntly, Strathbogie and Howe of Alford1 (minority, including Alford).

1 The boundary within these wards is equivalent to the boundary between the former Gordon constituency and the unchanged West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine constituency.

The constituency covers a southern portion of the Aberdeenshire council area and includes the towns of Stonehaven, Portlethen and Banchory, and stretches along the Dee river valley from Westhill to Braemar, and north to Kemnay in the Don river valley, which were part of the Gordon constituency until 2005.

To the northeast of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine there are the constituencies of Aberdeen North and Aberdeen South, which are both entirely within the Aberdeen City area; to the north there is the new Gordon and Buchan constituency, which is entirely within the Aberdeenshire area; to the northeast lies the new Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey constituency; and to the south, the new Angus and Perthshire Glens constituency.

Members of Parliament

1918–1950

Election	k	2	date=March 2012}}
Coalition Liberal}}"		1918	Arthur Murray
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1922	Liberal
Unionist Party (Scotland)}}"		1923	Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1929	James Scott
Unionist Party (Scotland)}}"		1931	Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
Unionist Party (Scotland)}}"		1939 by-election	Colin Thornton-Kemsley
1950	constituency abolished

1997–present

Election	1	date=March 2012}}
Liberal Democrats (UK)}}"	1997	Sir Robert Smith
Scottish National Party}}"	2015	Stuart Donaldson
Scottish Conservative Party}}"	2017	Andrew Bowie

Election results

Elections in the 2020s

Elections in the 2010s

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Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1910s

References

"2023 review final recs news release". Boundary Commission for Scotland.
The boundaries of Holyrood constituencies remain as when the constituencies were created in 1999
''Holyrood'' refers to the location of the [[Scottish Parliament Building]] near [[Holyroodhouse Palace]] in [[Edinburgh]]
See also ''[[Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions]]''
"Fifth Periodical Review".
[https://www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk/reviews/2023-review-uk-parliament-constituencies 2023 Review UK Parliament constituencies] Boundary Commission for Scotland
"The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023".
{{Rayment-hc. k. 2. (March 2012)
{{Rayment-hc. a. 1. (March 2012)
"Results West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine".
"West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine results". BBC News.
"General Election 2019".
"Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine parliamentary constituency - Election 2019".
(28 January 2020). "Commons Briefing Paper 8749. General Election 2019: results and analysis". [[House of Commons Library]].
"Results". www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk.
(29 January 2019). "Commons Briefing Paper 7979. General Election 2017: results and analysis". [[House of Commons Library]].
"Election Data 2015". [[Electoral Calculus]].
[http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/elections/DeclarationofResult-WAK.pdf ]{{dead link. (June 2021)
"Election Data 2010". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"BBC Election Results: West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine".
"Election Data 2005". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 2001". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1997". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"[https://web.archive.org/web/20060309201334/http://politics.guardian.co.uk/hoc/constituency/0,,-1417,00.html Aristotle: Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine]", ''[[Guardian Unlimited]]''
Whitaker's Almanack, 1944
Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
The Times, 1 June 1929
Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
The Times, 8 December 1923
The Times, 17 November 1922

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