Contents
Region Map
Overall Regional Result 2021
Aberdeen Central
Aberdeen Donside
Aberdeen South and North Kincardine
Aberdeenshire East
Aberdeenshire West
Angus North and Mearns
Angus South
Banffshire and Buchan Coast
Dundee City East
Dundee City West
List Seat Allocation Process
North East List Candidates 2021
Minor Party Results
The North East covers four Council Areas in full – Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Angus and Dundee City. It also includes a very small chunk of Moray around Buckie and Cullen. The original version didn’t have that bit of Moray but did include the area around Keith, and was also lacking the northern chunk of Angus including Forfar. Formal administrative boundaries aside, you could think of this region as consisting of three very distinct areas.
There’s the big cities, with Aberdeen the 3rd largest in Scotland and Dundee the 4th. As major industrial centres, both cities experienced substantial growth through the early 20th century, but have very individual stories. Dundee has followed the Glasgow route of industrial decline followed by cultural revival, whilst Aberdeen is more akin to Edinburgh in terms of affluence, having been the centre of Scotland’s oil boom. Both have had areas of strength for Labour, though Dundee has a long history of SNP success whereas Aberdeen saw stronger Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
Then there are the coastal burghs, stretching up from the likes of Arbroath and Montrose in Angus through Stonehaven, Peterhead, Fraserburgh and Banff in Aberdeenshire, and terminating in that Moray chunk at Buckie. All of these have strong ties to Scotland’s fisheries, and have been SNP-Conservative battlegrounds for decades.
The third and final area would be the rural farming inland. More than almost any other part of Scotland, rural Aberdeenshire is extremely well and densely populated. These are the areas that by the latter part of the 20th century were driving Conservative-Lib Dem contests.
By the 1997 election which eliminated the Conservatives across all of Scotland, the SNP had settled into dominance of Angus and the Banff and Buchan area, Labour commanded the big cities, and the Lib Dems held sway over rural Aberdeenshire.
6 SNP (4 Regional, 2 Constituency)
4 Labour (all Constituency)
3 Conservative (all Regional)
3 Liberal Democrat (all Constituency)
5 SNP (4 Constituency, 1 Regional)
4 Labour (2 Constituency, 2 Regional)
3 Conservative (all Regional)
3 Liberal Democrat (all Constituency)
1 Green (Regional)
8 SNP (6 Constituency, 2 Regional)
3 Labour (2 Regional, 1 Constituency)
3 Liberal Democrat (2 Constituency, 1 Regional)
2 Conservative (all Regional)
11 SNP (10 Constituency, 1 Regional)
3 Labour (all Regional)
2 Conservative (all Regional)
1 Liberal Democrat (Regional)
9 SNP (all Constituency)
5 Conservative (4 Regional, 1 Constituency)
2 Labour (all Regional)
1 Liberal Democrat (Regional)
9 SNP (all Constituency)
5 Conservative (4 Regional, 1 Constituency)
2 Labour (all Regional)
1 Green (Regional)
Regional List Vote and MSPs Elected
#1:
Conservative - Liam Kerr
#2:
Labour - Michael Marra
#3:
Conservative - Douglas Lumsden
#4:
Conservative - Maurice Golden
#5:
Green - Maggie Chapman
#6:
Conservative - Tess White
#7:
Labour - Mercedes Villalba
Constituency Vote
Total MSPs Elected
9 SNP (all Constituency)
5 Conservative (4 Regional, 1 Constituency)
2 Labour (all Regional)
1 Green (Regional)
To allocate list seats using the D’Hondt method, each party’s share of the vote is divided by one more than the number of seats they’ve won so far in the process. This is an important part of how the list seats then more fairly represent the diversity of views amongst voters. List votes cast for a party that has won lots of constituency seats are not “wasted”, they just aren’t needed to give their voters fair representation.
When allocating the first list seat, this starts with the number of constituencies won by each party:
- The SNP won 9 constituencies, so their vote is divided by 10.
- The Conservatives won 1 constituency, so their vote is divided by 2.
- No one else won any constituencies, so their votes aren’t divided.
That then gives us this (removing the parties that clearly don’t have enough votes for clarity):
Since the Conservatives have the highest total here, they receive the first regional list seat. We add that to their total, giving them 2 seat overall so far, and therefore for the next round of allocation their share is divided by 3.
Labour have the highest total, so they receive the second regional list seat. That gives them 1 seat overall so far, and therefore for the next round of allocation their share is divided by 2.
The Conservatives have the highest total, so they receive the third regional list seat. That gives them 3 seats overall so far, and therefore for the next round of allocation their share is divided by 4.
The Conservatives have the highest total, so they receive the fourth regional list seat. We add that to their total, giving them 4 seats overall so far, and therefore for the next round of allocation their share is divided by 5.
The Greens have the highest total, so they receive the fifth regional list seat. That gives them 1 seat overall so far, and therefore for the next round of allocation their share is divided by 2.
The Conservatives have the highest total, so they receive the sixth regional list seat. We add that to their total, giving them 5 seats overall so far, and therefore for the next round of allocation their share is divided by 6.
Labour have the highest total, so they receive the seventh and final regional list seat. We add that to their total, giving them 2 seats overall. Therefore, the final distribution of seats across the North East Scotland region is:
9 SNP (all Constituency)
5 Conservative (4 Regional, 1 Constituency)
2 Labour (all Regional)
1 Green (Regional)
- Fatima Joji
- Christian Allard
- Fergus Mutch
- William Duff
- Nadia El-Nakla
- John Cooke
- Lynne Short
- Gillian Al-Samarai
- Josh Mennie
- Liam Kerr
- Alexander Burnett
- Douglas Lumsden
- Maurice Golden
- Tess White
- Gillian Tebberen
- Stewart Whyte
- Mark Findlater
- Harriet Cross
- Philip Scott
- Eleanor Price
- Mason Mcilreavy
- Michael Marra
- Mercedes Villalba
- Barry Black
- Lynn Thomson
- Richard McCready
- Georgia Strachan
- Kaamal Bola
- Heather Herbert
- Owen Wright
- Maggie Chapman
- Guy Ingerson
- Rachel Shanks
- Leòdhas Massie
- Sylvia Hardie
- Peter Kennedy
- Bradley Booth
- Rosemary Bruce
- John Waddell
- Ben Lawrie
- Ian Yuill
- Conrad Wood
- Isobel Davidson
- Alison Simpson
- Michael Crichton
- Callum Buchanan
- Alex Salmond
- Heather McLean
- Brian Topping
- Dot Jessiman
- Arthur Keith
- Scott Fenwick
- Bobby Ferguson
- Danielle Millar
- Richard Kelbie
- Ben Stones
- John McPhee
- Kirsty Miller
- Jason Duncan
- Diane Mathieson
- Sadie Cubitt
- John Cox
- James Whitelaw
- Greig Mair
- Samantha Evans
- Carol MacDonald
- David Bestwick
- John Donaldson
- William Strachan
- George Arthur
- Shehla Arthur
- Bryce Hope
- Duncan Odgers
- David Mackay
- William Morren
- Gerald Haddrell
- Albert Emery
- Kathleen Rowham
- Richard Tallach
- David McHutchon
- Ewan Gurr
- Colin McFadyen
- Geoffrey Farquharson
- Laura Marshall