Edinburgh South (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Burgh constituency | |
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| Edinburgh South shown within Scotland | |
| Created: | 1885 |
| MP: | Nigel Griffiths |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Council areas: | City of Edinburgh |
| EP constituency: | Scotland |
Edinburgh South is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Prior to the 2005 general election the constituency had the same boundaries as the Scottish Parliament constituency with the same name. See Edinburgh South (Scottish Parliament constituency).
Selected Candidates
There is every indication that sitting Labour MP Nigel Griffiths intends to fight the constituency at the next general election. The small Labour majority of 405 means that this is the top target seat against Labour for the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons and in March 2006 they selected local councillor Fred Mackintosh as their candidate.
Boundaries
The constituency covers the southern portion of Edinburgh, including the wards of Alnwickhill, Fairmilehead, Gilmerton, Kaimes, Marchmont, Merchiston, Moredun, Newington, North Morningside and the Grange, Sciennes, and South Morningside. The constituency is predominantly suburban.
Five of these wards are represented by Scottish Liberal Democrat councillors, four by Labour councillors and two by Conservative councillors. There are no SNP or Green councillors in the Constituency.
Member of Parliament
- 1885 - 1886: George Harrison
- 1886 - 1892: Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, Liberal
- 1892 - 1895: Herbert Woodfield Paul
- 1895 - 1899: Robert Cox
- 1899 - 1900: Arthur Dewar Liberal (elected in a by-election)
- 1900 - 1906: Andrew Noel Agnew
- 1906 - 1910: Arthur Dewar Liberal
- 1910 - 1917: Charles Henry Lyell (elected in either January or December)
- 1917 - 1918: James Edward Parrott (elected in the a by-election), Liberal
- 1918 - 1922: Charles David Murray, Unionist
- 1922 - 1945: Samuel Chapman, Unionist (re-elected in the 1923, 1924, 1929, 1931 and 1935 general elections)
- 1945 - 1957: William Darling, Unionist (re-elected in the 1951 and 1955 general elections)
- 1957 - 1979: Michael Clark Hutchison, Unionist/Conservative (elected in a by-election, re-elected in the 1959, 1964, 1966, 1970, February 1974 and October 1974 general elections)
- 1979 - 1987: Michael Ancram, Conservative (re-elected in the 1983 general election)
- 1987 - present: Nigel Griffiths, Labour (re-elected in the 1992, 1997, 2001 and 2005 general elections)
Election results
See also
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