Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (UK Parliament constituency)

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Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
County constituency
for the House of Commons
BerwickshireRoxburghSelkirkConstituency.svg
Boundary of Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk in Scotland
Subdivisions of Scotland Scottish Borders
Electorate 73,191 [1]
Major settlements Galashiels, Hawick, Selkirk, Kelso, Eyemouth
Current constituency
Created 2005
Member of Parliament John Lamont (Conservative)
SeatsOne
Created from Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, and Roxburgh and Berwickshire

Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk is a constituency of the British House of Commons, located in the south of Scotland within the Scottish Borders council area. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years using the first-past-the-post system of voting. Since 2017 the MP has been John Lamont of the Conservative Party.

Contents

The constituency name comes from the three counties it covers; Berwickshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire.

A mostly rural constituency, it includes the towns of Coldstream, Duns, Eyemouth, Galashiels, Hawick, Jedburgh, Kelso, Melrose and Selkirk.

Boundaries

Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries

As created by the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland. The Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency covers part of the Scottish Borders council area. The rest of the council area is covered by the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency, which also covers part of the Dumfries and Galloway council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council area.

The Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency is predominantly rural, and incorporates the electoral wards of:

2023 boundary review

In 2023 new constituency boundaries for the 2024 general election were proposed by 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. The constituency remained unchanged.

Location of the constituency after boundaries review

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History

Michael Moore held the seat from its creation in 2005, and was MP for the predecessor seat of Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale from 1997 to 2005. The seat and its predecessor seats (Roxburgh and Berwickshire and Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale) had a strong Liberal Party presence since the 1960s, with former Liberal leader David Steel having represented the seat from 1965 to 1997. Historically, the Conservative Party has been the main challenger to the seat, and they currently hold the equivalent Holyrood seat. At the 2015 general election, Moore and the Liberal Democrats were pushed into third place in the constituency, and the seat was narrowly won by Calum Kerr of the Scottish National Party over the Conservative candidate, John Lamont, by 328 votes.

At the 2017 snap election, Lamont (who contested the seat for the fourth consecutive election) won the seat from Calum Kerr of the SNP by 11,060 votes - polling more votes than any other candidate in Scotland, and making it the safest Conservative seat in Scotland.

Two years later, at the 2019 general election, held in the wake of parliamentary deadlock and Brexit negotiations, the Conservatives called another election and achieved their best national result since 1987, winning a comfortable majority of 80 seats at the election, with Lamont being re-elected as MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk. He held the seat with a reduced majority of 5,148 votes, due to a swing towards the SNP and Liberal Democrats.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [2] Party
2005 Michael Moore Liberal Democrat
2015 Calum Kerr SNP
2017 John Lamont Conservative

Elections

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Elections in the 2020s

2024 general election: Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Lamont 18,872 40.5 −7.9
SNP David Wilson12,27326.4−12.4
Labour Caitlin Stott6,31113.6+8.9
Liberal Democrats Ray Georgeson3,6867.9−0.2
Reform UK Carolyn Grant3,3407.2N/A
Scottish Green Neil MacKinnon1,5263.3N/A
Independent Ellie Merton3290.7N/A
Scottish Family Hamish Goldie-Scot2210.5N/A
Majority6,59914.1+4.5
Turnout 46,69661.1−10.3
Registered electors 76,438
Conservative hold Swing +2.3

Elections in the 2010s

2019 general election: Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk [5] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Lamont 25,747 48.4 −5.5
SNP Calum Kerr 20,59938.8+6.0
Liberal Democrats Jenny Marr4,2878.1+3.4
Labour Ian Davidson 2,5134.7−3.9
Majority5,1489.6−11.5
Turnout 53,14671.3−0.2
Conservative hold Swing -5.7
2017 general election: Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk [7] [8] [9] [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Lamont 28,213 53.9 +17.9
SNP Calum Kerr 17,15332.8−3.8
Labour Co-op Ian Davidson 4,5198.6+3.7
Liberal Democrats Caroline Burgess2,4824.7−14.0
Majority11,06021.1N/A
Turnout 52,36771.5−2.7
Conservative gain from SNP Swing +10.8
2015 general election: Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SNP Calum Kerr [13] 20,145 36.6 +27.4
Conservative John Lamont [14] 19,81736.0+2.2
Liberal Democrats Michael Moore [14] 10,29418.7−26.7
Labour Kenryck Jones [15] 2,7004.9−5.3
UKIP Peter Neilson [15] 1,3162.4+1.2
Scottish Green Pauline Stewart [16] 6311.1New
Independent Jesse Rae [15] 1350.2New
Majority3280.6N/A
Turnout 55,03874.2+7.8
SNP gain from Liberal Democrats Swing +27.1
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Michael Moore
2010 general election: Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk [17] [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Michael Moore 22,230 45.4 +3.6
Conservative John Lamont 16,55533.8+5.0
Labour Ian Miller5,00310.2−5.7
SNP Paul Wheelhouse 4,4979.2+0.6
UKIP Sherry Fowler5951.2−0.1
Scottish Jacobite Chris Black1340.3New
Majority5,67511.6−1.4
Turnout 49,01466.4+3.1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing −0.7

Elections in the 2000s

2005 general election: Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Michael Moore 18,993 41.8 −5.0
Conservative John Lamont 13,09228.8+6.8
Labour Sam Held7,20615.9−1.0
SNP Aileen Orr3,8858.6−2.8
Liberal John Hein 9162.0+1.6
Scottish Socialist Graeme McIver6951.5±0.0
UKIP Peter Neilson6011.3+0.3
Majority5,90113.0−11.8
Turnout 45,38863.3
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

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