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Dumfries (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dumfries
Former county constituency
for the Scottish Parliament
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Dumfries shown within the South of Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Former constituency
Created 1999
Abolished 2011
Council area Dumfries and Galloway
Replaced by Dumfriesshire,
Galloway and West Dumfries

Dumfries was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It was also one of nine constituencies in the South of Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

From the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, the Dumfries constituency was abolished, with the city being divided between two new constituencies; Dumfriesshire, and Galloway and West Dumfries.

The Dumfries constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.


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