BBC Profile:
This seat was created by the 2005 boundary review. It was made up of just over 50% of the old Dumfries division, 21% from Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, 15% from Clydesdale with the remainder coming from Galloway and Upper Nithsdale.
Notional votes from 2001 applied to the new seat gave Labour a 12% majority to defend. At the 2005 general election the constituency became the Conservatives' only gain in Scotland and (with the loss of Dumfries and Galloway to Labour) their only Scottish seat. David Mundell won with a majority of just over 1,000 votes over Labour.
There are no boundary changes affecting this seat.
The seat combines the rural parts of Dumfriesshire with the Clydesdale area of south Lanarkshire and the Tweeddale parts of the Scottish Borders council region. Most people live in small towns and villages surrounded by large areas of farmland.
The M74 bisects the constituency and two of its largest towns, Lockerbie and Moffat, lie close to the only motorway running from Scotland to England.
The west of the seat still has ties to mining and industry, and opencast mining continues to provide jobs. Knitwear manufacturing is also a dwindling industry.
Tourism is also important to the area and the Old Blacksmiths Shop and Centre at Gretna Green is one of Scotlands most visited free attractions with its history of runaway weddings from England where there is more stringent marriage law.
Lockerbie was the scene of the bombing of P
[More...]BBC Profile:
This seat was created by the 2005 boundary review. It was made up of just over 50% of the old Dumfries division, 21% from Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, 15% from Clydesdale with the remainder coming from Galloway and Upper Nithsdale.
Notional votes from 2001 applied to the new seat gave Labour a 12% majority to defend. At the 2005 general election the constituency became the Conservatives' only gain in Scotland and (with the loss of Dumfries and Galloway to Labour) their only Scottish seat. David Mundell won with a majority of just over 1,000 votes over Labour.
There are no boundary changes affecting this seat.
The seat combines the rural parts of Dumfriesshire with the Clydesdale area of south Lanarkshire and the Tweeddale parts of the Scottish Borders council region. Most people live in small towns and villages surrounded by large areas of farmland.
The M74 bisects the constituency and two of its largest towns, Lockerbie and Moffat, lie close to the only motorway running from Scotland to England.
The west of the seat still has ties to mining and industry, and opencast mining continues to provide jobs. Knitwear manufacturing is also a dwindling industry.
Tourism is also important to the area and the Old Blacksmiths Shop and Centre at Gretna Green is one of Scotlands most visited free attractions with its history of runaway weddings from England where there is more stringent marriage law.
Lockerbie was the scene of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which caused the deaths of 270 people in 1988.
Rallings & Thrasher Notional:
No Boundary Changes
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