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| Created: | 1997 |
| Abolished: | 2005 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | One |
Aberdeen Central was a constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1997 general election and returned one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system until it was abolished by the 2005 general election.
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History
Upon the boundary review in time for the 2005 election, the seat was abolished, with most of the seat joining Aberdeen North, except for Queen's Cross, Gilcomston and Langstane which joined Aberdeen South.
Boundaries
Aberdeen Central centred around the centre of Aberdeen, the boundaries generally being, but not precisely, the River Dee and River Don and the Anderson Drive ring-road.
Members of Parliament
- Constituency created (1997)
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Frank Doran | Labour | |
- Constituency abolished (2005)
Elections
1990s
| General Election, 1 May 1997 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Frank Doran | 17,745 | 49.82 | N/A | |
| Conservative | J Wisely | 6,944 | 19.50 | N/A | |
| Scottish National Party | B Topping | 5,767 | 16.19 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrat | J Brown | 4,714 | 13.24 | N/A | |
| Referendum Party | J Farquharson | 446 | 1.25 | N/A | |
| Majority | 10,801 | 30.33 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 35,616 | 65.29 | N/A | ||
2000s
| General Election, 7 June 2001 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Frank Doran | 12,025 | 45.5 | −4.32 | |
| Scottish National Party | Wayne Gault | 5,379 | 20.4 | +4.21 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Eleanor Anderson | 4,547 | 17.2 | +3.96 | |
| Conservative | Stewart Whyte | 3,761 | 14.2 | −5.3 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Andy Cumbers | 717 | 2.7 | N/A | |
| Majority | 6,646 | 25.1 | −5.23 | ||
| Turnout | 26,429 | 52.7 | −12.59 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | −4.2 | |||
References
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- Kimber, Richard (2008). "Aberdeen Central". psr.keele.ac.uk. Retrieved on 2008-07-14.
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 14 July 2008, at 08:07.
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