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  UK Parliament - Perth & North Perthshire
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Parents > United Kingdom > Scotland > Scotland > Perth & North Perthshire
OfficeParliament
HonorificMember of Parliament - Abbr: MP
Type General Election
Filing Deadline 00, 0000 - 12:00pm Central
Polls Open May 07, 2015 - 01:00am Central
Polls Close May 07, 2015 - 04:00pm Central
Term Start May 08, 2015 - 12:00pm
Term End June 08, 2017 - 11:00pm
ContributorRBH
Last ModifiedIndyGeorgia April 20, 2017 07:52pm
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Description BBC Constituency Profile:

Steeped in history, the constituency of Perth and Perthshire North takes in Scone, once home of Scotland's kings and the Stone of Destiny, on which they were crowned. Framed by the Grampian Mountains in the north-west and the Firth of Tay in the south-west, the constituency includes Killiecrankie, where Jacobite rebel John Graham defeated the English in 1689 and Birnam Wood, made famous by Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Perth - once effectively Scotland's capital - is now home to Scottish and Southern Energy and Stagecoach. The seat includes the Glenshee skiing area and some of Scotland's most fertile farming land.

The former Perth and Kinross seat was won by the SNP's Roseanna Cunningham, now a Scottish minister, in a 1996 by-election prompted by the death of Conservative MP Nicholas Fairbairn. Pete Wishart won the Perth and Perthshire North seat for the SNP in 2005, holding it in 2010 by 4,379 votes.
LAST GENERAL ELECTION
  PartyScottish National Won05/06/2010
NamePeter Wishart Votes19,118 (39.61%)
Term05/17/2010 - 05/17/2015 Margin4,379 (+9.07%)
NEXT GENERAL ELECTION
  PartyScottish National Won06/08/2017
NamePeter Wishart Votes21,804 (42.32%)
Term06/08/2017 - 12/12/2019 Margin21 (+0.04%)
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Name (I) MP Peter Wishart Alexander Stewart Scott Nicholson Peter Barrett Louise Ramsay John Myles Xander McDade
PartyScottish National Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish Green UK Independence Independent
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Certified Votes 27,379 (50.52%) 17,738 (32.73%) 4,413 (8.14%) 2,059 (3.80%) 1,146 (2.11%) 1,110 (2.05%) 355 (0.66%)
Margin0 (0.00%) -9,641 (-17.79%) -22,966 (-42.37%) -25,320 (-46.72%) -26,233 (-48.40%) -26,269 (-48.47%) -27,024 (-49.86%)
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