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Ayrshire is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland,located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr,Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire to the north-east,Dumfriesshire to the south-east,and Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire to the south. Like many other counties of Scotland it currently has no administrative function,instead being sub-divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire,South Ayrshire and East Ayrshire. It has a population of approximately 366,800.
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Ayr is a town situated on the southwest coast of Scotland.
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South of 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 2011 following a review.
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Ayr,Carrick,and Cumnock is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election from parts of the old Ayr and Carrick,Cumnock and Doon Valley constituencies. It has been represented since 2019 by Allan Dorans of the Scottish National Party.
Central Ayrshire is a constituency of the British House of Commons,located in the south-west of Scotland within the North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire council areas. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years using the first-past-the-post system of voting.
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Carrick,Cumnock and Doon Valley was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005. Half of the constituency was incorporated into the new Ayr,Carrick and Cumnock constituency,with the remainder incorporated into the new Central Ayrshire constituency and the expanded Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency.
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Galloway and West Dumfries is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of Dumfries and Galloway. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the South Scotland electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to the nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Charles "Chic" Gilchrist Brodie is a Scottish politician,who has been the leader of Scotia Future since 2020.
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