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    Galloway and Upper Nithsdale was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality...
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  • Galloway and Upper Nithsdale may mean or refer to: Galloway and Upper Nithsdale (UK Parliament constituency) Galloway and Upper Nithsdale (Scottish Parliament...
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  • Thumbnail for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale (UK Parliament constituency)
    Galloway and Upper Nithsdale was a county constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United...
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    election, replacing Galloway and Upper Nithsdale and part of Dumfries. Like all British constituencies, it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post...
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    constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of Dumfries and Galloway. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament...
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    2011 Scottish Parliament election, it comprises areas that were previously part of the old Dumfries and Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituencies, which...
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  • general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency. General Election 1939–40 Another General Election was...
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    Conservative MP representing a Scottish constituency at the 2005 general election, after the Conservative MP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Peter Duncan was defeated...
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    South Scotland is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions...
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    10 July 1965) is a Scottish Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale from 2001 to 2005. Born...
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    Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies)
    Conservative Party politician and Life Peer who served as the Member of Parliament for Galloway, and then Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, from 1979 to 1997. On...
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    Dumfries; from Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phris [ˌt̪un ˈfɾʲiʃ]) is a market town and former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, near the mouth...
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    Lothian, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale and Roxburgh and Berwickshire. The region covered the Dumfries and Galloway council area, the Scottish Borders council...
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  • Alasdair Morgan (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies)
    Parliament for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale from 1997 to 2001. He was elected in 1999 as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Galloway and Upper...
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    and all 72 seats in Scotland were contested. There was only one Scottish seat which changed parties during the election; that of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale...
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    Finlay Carson (category People from Dumfries and Galloway)
    for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale. In 2015 he stood for the UK Parliament as the Conservative candidate for the Dumfries and Galloway constituency where...
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    replaced the previous constituency of Kilmarnock and Loudoun. Some territory was transferred from Galloway and Upper Nithsdale to Dumfries; the redrawn...
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    first Scottish Parliament at the 1999 Scottish Parliament election. Of the 129 members, 73 were elected from first past the post constituencies with a...
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  • Thumbnail for South of Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)
    Scotland was one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament when it was created in 1999. The region was replaced with South Scotland in...
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  • of Upper Nithsdale was transferred from Dumfries to Galloway (renamed Galloway and Upper Nithsdale). The majority of Dunfermline formed Dunfermline West...
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  • and Badenoch) 2024–present Donald Stewart (Western Isles), 1974–1987 Margaret Ewing (Moray), 1987–1999 Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale)...
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    The First periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries was carried out by the Boundary Commission for Scotland. It was announced on 3 July 2007 that...
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    Labour, while Ian Lang, President of the Board of Trade, lost Galloway and Upper Nithsdale to the SNP. Conservative party leader John Major resigned as...
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    Mid and Upper Nithsdale is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects three Councillors. 2017 Dumfries...
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    Dalbeattie (category Towns in Dumfries and Galloway)
    Jack. In the Scottish Parliament the town is within the Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency and the South of Scotland region and was represented...
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    periodical review of Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) constituencies, new constituencies and additional member regions of the Scottish Parliament were introduced...
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    State for Scotland Ian Lang would lose his seat of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale to the SNP and that Under-Secretary of State for Scotland Michael Forsyth...
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    Lothian, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale and Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale. The region covered the Dumfries and Galloway council area, the Scottish Borders...
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    election to the devolved Scottish Parliament since it was created in 1999. Local elections in Scotland fell on the same day. The Scottish National Party emerged...
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    Cunninghame South, Dumfries, East Lothian, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Tweeddale Ettrick and Lauderdale. Compared with Green Party...
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