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Encyclopedia > Banff and Buchan (Scottish Parliament constituency)
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Banff and Buchan is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post system of elction. The constituency was created in 1999 with the same boundaries as the Banff and Buchan constituency of the House of Commons. The United Kingdom has now four bodies with members elected by constituencies: The House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom The Scottish Parliament The Welsh Assembly The Northern Ireland Assembly The House of Commons has over 600 constituencies representing the whole of the United Kingdom. ... The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba in Gaelic, Scots Pairlament in Scots) is the national unicameral legislature of Scotland. ... Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament. ... The first-past-the-post electoral system is a voting system for single-member districts, variously called first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP), winner-take-all, plurality voting, or relative majority. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Jump to: navigation, search Banff and Buchan is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...


The constituency is currently represented by Scottish Nationalist MSP Stewart Stevenson. In Scotland, the Scottish National Party (SNP) (Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a centre-left political party which campaigns for Scottish independence. ... Stewart Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1946 and brought up in Cupar, Fife. ...


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Alex Salmond — SNP - Scottish National Party (316 words)
He was first elected as MP for Banff and Buchan in 1987 and was elected as National Convener for the Scottish National Party in 1990.
He served as leader of the opposition in the Scottish Parliament when he was elected MSP for Banff and Buchan constituency in 1999.
He was re-elected as Leader of the SNP in 2004 and elected as MSP for the Gordon constituency in May 2007.
Banff and Buchan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (130 words)
Banff and Buchan was formerly a local government district in the Grampian Region of Scotland.
Created in the local government reorganistion of 1975, it combined the Aberdeenshire district of Buchan with the town of Banff and its surrounding portion of the county of Banffshire (the rest of Banffshire became part of the Moray district in the Highland region).
The area is still used as the Banff and Buchan British parliamentary constituency and the Banff and Buchan Scottish parliamentary constituency.
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