Dundee City East is a constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...

 of the Scottish Parliament

Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital, Edinburgh. The Parliament, informally referred to as "Holyrood", is a democratically elected body comprising 129 members known as Members of the Scottish Parliament...

 (Holyrood

Scottish Parliament Building

The Scottish Parliament Building is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Edinburgh. Construction of the building commenced in June 1999 and the Members of the Scottish Parliament held their first debate in the new building on 7...

). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament.-Methods of Election:MSPs are elected in one of two ways:...

 by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of ten constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region

Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions

Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions were first used in 1999, in the first general election of the Scottish Parliament , created by the Scotland Act 1998....

, which elects sevenadditional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation

Proportional representation

Proportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...

 for the region as a whole.

For the 2011 Scottish Parliament election

Scottish Parliament election, 2011

The 2011 Scottish Parliament general election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2011 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament.The election delivered the first majority government since the opening of Holyrood, a remarkable feat as the mixed member proportional representation system is used to...

, Dundee East was redrawn and renamed Dundee City East.

Electoral region

See also North East Scotland Scottish Parliament region

The other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region are Aberdeen Central

Aberdeen Central (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Aberdeen Central is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election and is one of nine constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region...

, Aberdeen Donside

Aberdeen Donside (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Aberdeen Donside is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It will elect one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election...

, Aberdeen South and North Kincardine

Aberdeen South and North Kincardine (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Aberdeen South and North Kincardine is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election...

, Aberdeenshire East

Aberdeenshire East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Aberdeenshire East is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election...

, Aberdeenshire West

Aberdeenshire West (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Aberdeenshire West is a proposed constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It will elect one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election...

, Angus North and Mearns

Angus North and Mearns (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Angus North and Mearns is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election...

, Angus South

Angus South (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Angus South is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election...

, Banffshire and Buchan Coast

Banffshire and Buchan Coast (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Banffshire and Buchan Coast is a new constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election...

 and Dundee City West

Dundee City West (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dundee City West is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election...

The region covers the Aberdeenshire council area

Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire is one of the 32 unitary council areas in Scotland and a lieutenancy area.The present day Aberdeenshire council area does not include the City of Aberdeen, now a separate council area, from which its name derives. Together, the modern council area and the city formed historic...

, the Aberdeen City council area, the Dundee City council area, part of the Angus council area

Angus

Angus is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Dundee City...

, a small part of the Moray council area

Moray

Moray is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland.- History :...

 and a small part of the Perth and Kinross council area

Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is one of 32 council areas in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee City, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling, Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas. Perth is the administrative centre...

.

Constituency boundaries

From the 2011 election, the redrawn and renamed Dundee City East constituency will consist of the following electoral wards;

• In full: East End, The Ferry;
• In part: Coldside; Maryfield; North East

Council area

The Holyrood constituency is within the Dundee City council area, which is divided between three North East Scotland constituencies. Dundee East and Dundee West are within the city area.
The Angus constituency covers north-eastern and north-western areas of the city, as well as a southern portion of the Angus council area and a small eastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member		Party	Took office	Left office
	Shona Robison Shona Robison Shona Robison is a Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dundee East. She was elected as a Scottish National Party candidate in the 2003 election...	SNP Scottish National Party The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....	2011	present

Election results

See also

• Politics of Dundee
  Politics of Dundee
  Politics in the Dundee City council area are evident in the deliberations and decisions of Dundee City Council, in elections to the council, and in elections to the Scottish Parliament and the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom .In the European Parliament, the city area is...