Banff and Buchan (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1983 onwards / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Banff and Buchan is a constituency of the House of Commons, located in the north-east of Scotland within the Aberdeenshire council area. It elects one Member of Parliament at least once every five years using the first-past-the-post system of voting.
Banff and Buchan | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Major settlements | Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Turriff |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | David Duguid (Conservative) |
Created from | Aberdeenshire East and Banffshire[1] |
Replaced by | Aberdeenshire North and Moray East |
The seat has been held by David Duguid of the Scottish Conservatives since 2017; until then the Scottish National Party (SNP) had held the seat since 1987, with the then First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond representing the seat until 2010 and Eilidh Whiteford until 2017.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to boundary changes which will involve expansion into eastern parts of the Moray. As a consequence, it will be renamed Aberdeenshire North and Moray East, to be first contested at the next general election.[2]