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Edinburgh North and Leith is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. A similar constituency, also called Edinburgh North and Leith, is used for the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba in Gaelic, Scots Pairlament in Scots) is the national legislature of Scotland. ... 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 constituency covers Leith and a northern portion of Edinburgh. It includes the wards of Broughton, Calton, Granton, Harbour, Lorne, New Town, Newhaven, Stockbridge, Trinity. The Pilton ward is split with Edinburgh South. The constituency is urban. This article is about Leith, Scotland; see also other places called Leith . ... Edinburgh viewed from Arthurs Seat. ... Edinburgh viewed from Arthurs Seat. ... Newhaven is a harbour village within the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, between Leith and Granton. ... Edinburgh South is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. ...
Banff and Buchan is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster).
From 1999 to the general election of 2005 the constituency had the same boundaries as the ScottishParliament (Holyrood) constituency which is also called Banff and Buchan.
The important ports of Peterhead and Fraserburgh are the main towns in the seat, which sits to the north of Aberdeen.
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