Perth and Kinross is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland,and a lieutenancy area. It is bordered by Highland and Aberdeenshire to the north,Angus,Dundee,and Fife to the east,Clackmannanshire to the south,and Stirling and Argyll and Bute to the west. Perth is the administrative centre.
Rosemary McKenna is a Scottish Labour Party politician,who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2010. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth at the 1997 general election,and held that seat until its abolition in boundary changes for the 2005 general election. She was then elected as the MP for the new Cumbernauld,Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East,from which she stood down at the next election,in 2010.
Kilsyth is a town and civil parish in North Lanarkshire,roughly halfway between Glasgow and Stirling in Scotland. The estimated population is 10,380. The town is famous for the Battle of Kilsyth and the religious revivals of the 18th,19th,and 20th centuries. The town now has links with Cumbernauld at one time being part of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth District Council. The towns also have the same members of parliament at Holyrood and Westminster.
Robert Hardie Bruce Crawford is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Parliamentary Business and Government Strategy from 2011 to 2012,having held the junior ministerial position of Minister for Parliamentary Business from 2007 to 2011. Crawford served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Stirling from 2007 to 2021,having previously represented the Mid Scotland and Fife region 1999–2007.
Mid Scotland and Fife is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament which were created in 1999. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elects a total of 16 MSPs.
Kilsyth Rangers Football Club are a Scottish football club based in the town of Kilsyth,North Lanarkshire. Nicknamed The Wee Gers,they were formed in 1913 and play at Duncansfield Park,which used to be one of the bigger non-league football grounds in Scotland. They wear blue tops and shorts,the away strip being red tops,black shorts and black socks,and currently compete in the West of Scotland League Second Division.
Cumbernauld,Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election,replacing Cumbernauld and Kilsyth and part of Strathkelvin and Bearsden.
Cathie Craigie is a former Scottish Labour politician who served as Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency from 1999 to 2011.
Perth was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. Also,however,it was one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region,which still elects seven additional members,in addition to nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
North Tayside was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. Also,however,it was one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife 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.
Paul Nicholas Johnston is a Scottish politician who was a Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region from May 1999 until August 2001.
Cumbernauld Academy is a comprehensive secondary school in Cumbernauld,Scotland. The original Cumbernauld High School was designed by Scottish architects Gratton &McLean and it opened in 1964 as a non-denominational,co-educational,secondary school. In 2013,North Lanarkshire Council announced the amalgamation of Cumbernauld High with Abronhill High to become Cumbernauld Academy in a new building to be built on existing CHS grounds.
Elizabeth Jane Smith is a Scottish politician who has been Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Mid Scotland and Fife since 2007. A member of the Scottish Conservative Party,she has served as Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy since 2021.
James Douglas Hepburn is a Scottish politician who has served as the Minister for Independence since 2023. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),he has been Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth since 2011,having previously represented the Central Scotland region from 2007 to 2011.
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 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 proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Perthshire South and Kinross-shire 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 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 proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Margaret McCulloch is a Scottish Labour Party politician. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region 2011–2016.
Stuart Campbell McDonald is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Cumbernauld,Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East constituency since 2015. A member of the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee,he previously served as the SNP Spokesperson for Justice and Immigration from 2022 to 2023. He served as the SNP Shadow Home Secretary from 2021 to 2022. He was the SNP Spokesperson on Immigration,Asylum and Border Control from 2015 to 2021.
Dean Lockhart is a Scottish former politician who was the convener of the net zero,energy and transport committee in the Scottish Parliament from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party,he was a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region from 2016 to 2022.
Alexander James Stewart is a Scottish Conservative Party politician who has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region since 2016.
