Banff and Buchan (UK Parliament constituency)

Banff and Buchan
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Banff and Buchan in Scotland
Major settlementsPeterhead, Fraserburgh, Turriff
Current constituency
Created1983
Member of ParliamentDavid Duguid (Conservative)
Created fromAberdeenshire East and Banffshire[1]
Replaced byAberdeenshire North and Moray East

Banff and Buchan is a constituency of the House of Commons, located in the north-east of Scotland within the Aberdeenshire council area. It elects one Member of Parliament at least once every five years using the first-past-the-post system of voting.

The seat has been held by David Duguid of the Scottish Conservatives since 2017; until then the Scottish National Party (SNP) had held the seat since 1987, with the then First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond representing the seat until 2010 and Eilidh Whiteford until 2017.

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to boundary changes which will involve expansion into eastern parts of the Moray. As a consequence, it will be renamed Aberdeenshire North and Moray East, to be first contested at the 2024 general election.[2]

  1. ^ "'Banff and Buchan', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  2. ^ Boundary Commission Scotland 2023 Review Report

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