Angus (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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Angus
Former county constituency for the Scottish Parliament
Angus shown within the North East Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Former constituency
Created	1999
Abolished	2011
Council area	Angus (part) Dundee City (part) Perth and Kinross (part)
Replaced by	Angus North and Mearns, Angus South

Angus was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it was one of nine constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

From the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, the Angus council area was covered by two separate constituencies; Angus North and Mearns and Angus South

Until 2011 the other eight constituencies of the North East Scotland region were: Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen North, Aberdeen South, Banff and Buchan, Dundee East, Dundee West, Gordon and West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

The region covered Aberdeenshire, the Aberdeen City council area, the Dundee City council area, part of Angus, a small part of Moray and a small part of Perth and Kinross.

The Angus constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, the boundaries of the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency were subject to major alterations.

The Holyrood constituency covered a southern portion of the Angus council area, north-eastern and north-western portions of the Dundee City council area and a small eastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area. The rest of the Angus council area was covered by the North Tayside constituency. The rest of the City of Dundee area was covered by the Dundee West and Dundee East constituencies, and the rest of the Perth and Kinross area was covered by the North Tayside constituency, the Perth constituency and the Ochil constituency. The North Tayside, Perth and Ochil constituencies were all within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.

Following the First Periodic review of constituencies to the Scottish Parliament, Angus was split into two newly drawn seats in time for the election in 2011. Thus, it became Angus North and Mearns and Angus South.

The constituency was represented for its entirety by the Scottish National Party MSP Andrew Welsh.

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