Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk was created as a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the general election of 2005. It replaced Roxburgh and Berwickshire and part of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ...

The constituency covers the whole of the Scottish Borders council area, apart from the Tweeddale area. It is predominantly rural. Scottish Borders is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland. ... Tweeddale is the traditional name for the area drained by the upper reaches of the Tweed River, this area was considered to end before the Yarrow Water flowed into the Tweed, so the area to the south and east, was bounded by the Yarrow/Tweed watershed, and to the north...

Boundaries

This constituency was enlarged to merge two former constituencies after devolution in Scotland. It was thought that it would be fairer if there were less Scottish seats because the Scots already had their own parliament with limited powers.

Member of Parliament

• 2005 – present: Michael Moore, Liberal Democrats

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Election results

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Politics and history of the constituency