South Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

South Scotland
electoral region for the Scottish Parliament
South Scotland shown within Scotland
Population	682,329 (2019)[1]
Current electoral region
Created	2011
MSPs	Scottish National Party 7 Scottish Conservative Party 6 Labour 3
Council areas	Dumfries and Galloway East Ayrshire East Lothian (part) Midlothian (part) Scottish Borders South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire (part)
Constituencies	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Dumfriesshire East Lothian Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire Galloway and West Dumfries Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale

South Scotland is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elects a total of 16 MSPs.

The South Scotland region was created as a result of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries and largely replaced the South of Scotland region.^[2]