Aberdeen North (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885 onwards / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aberdeen North is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was first used in the 1885 general election, but has undergone various boundary changes since that date.
Aberdeen North | |
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Burgh constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Aberdeen City |
Electorate | 69,622 |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1885 |
Member of Parliament | Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Aberdeen |
Overlaps | |
Scottish Parliament | North East Scotland |
As of the 2019 general election this can be considered the safest SNP seat, as it has the largest SNP vote share and relative majority.[1][2]
There was also an Aberdeen North Holyrood constituency, a constituency of the Scottish Parliament,[3] created in 1999 with the boundaries of the Westminster constituency of at that time. It was abolished in 2011 by the new constituencies of Aberdeen Donside and Aberdeen Central.