Dumbarton (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dumbarton
county constituency for the Scottish Parliament
Dumbarton shown within the West Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	1999
Party	Labour
MSP	Jackie Baillie
Council area	West Dunbartonshire Argyll and Bute

Dumbarton is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

The other nine constituencies of the West Scotland region are Clydebank and Milngavie, Cunninghame North, Cunninghame South, Eastwood, Greenock and Inverclyde, Paisley, Renfrewshire North and West, Renfrewshire South and Strathkelvin and Bearsden.