Stirling is a

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of the

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( Holyrood) covering part of the

council area {{Unreferenced, date=May 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) A council area is one of the areas defined in Schedule 1 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 and is under the control of one of the local authorities in Scotland created by that Ac ...

Stirling Stirling (; ; ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in Central Belt, central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh. The market town#Scotland, market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the roya ...

. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of

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for the region as a whole. The seat has been held by Evelyn Tweed of the

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since the

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Electoral region

The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are: Clackmannanshire and Dunblane,

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, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, North East Fife,

Perthshire North Perthshire North is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( Holyrood) covering part of the council area of Perth and Kinross. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. ...

, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire. The region covers all of the Clackmannanshire council area, all of the Fife council area, all of the Perth and Kinross council area and all of the

Stirling council area The Stirling council area (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and has an estimated population of (). It was created in 1975 as a lower-tier district within the Central region. The district covered parts of the historic counties ...

Constituency boundaries and council area

The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in

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, with the name and boundaries of a pre-existing

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(

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) constituency. For the

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Scottish Westminster constituencies were generally replaced with new larger constituencies whilst Scottish Parliament constituencies were left unchanged, meaning Holyrood and Westminster constituencies no longer aligned. The Stirling Westminster constituency was slightly enlarged and now includes all of the Stirling council area. The constituency boundaries were altered ahead of the

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by the first periodical review of Scottish Parliament constituencies. The rest of

is represented by the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency. The electoral wards used in the creation of Stirling are listed below. All of these wards are in Stirling council area: *

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* Forth and Endrick * Stirling East * Stirling North (known as ''Castle'' until 2017) * Stirling West * Trossachs and Teith

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election results

2020s

2010s

2000s

1990s

Footnotes

External links

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