Lothians
Formerelectoral region for theScottish Parliament
Lothians shown withinScotland
Formerelectoral region
Created	1999
Abolished	2011
Council areas	City of Edinburgh East Lothian (part) Midlothian (part) West Lothian
Constituencies	Edinburgh Central Edinburgh East and Musselburgh Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh South Edinburgh West Linlithgow Livingston Midlothian
Replaced by	Lothian

TheLothians was one of the eightelectoral regions of theScottish Parliament (Holyrood) from 1999 to 2011. Nine of the parliament's 73first past the postconstituencies were sub-divisions of the region and it elected seven of the 56additional-memberMembers of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elected a total of 16 MSPs.

The Lothians region shared boundaries with theSouth of Scotland andCentral Scotland regions, and was connected with theMid Scotland and Fife region by bridges over theFirth of Forth.

As a result of theFirst Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries it is largely replaced by theLothian region.

The council areasCity of Edinburgh andWest Lothian are entirely within the region. Most of theEast Lothian council area is outside, covered by theEast Lothian constituency, which is in theSouth of Scotland region. A western portion of theMidlothian council area is covered by theTweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale constituency, within the South of Scotland region.

Council areas are as defined in 1996, and may be subject to change after thenext Scottish Parliament election.

The constituencies were created in 1999 with the names and boundaries ofWestminster constituencies, as existing in at that time. Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies in 2005.^[1]

In terms of first past the post constituencies the region includes:

Map

Constituency

Edinburgh Central covers the central area of the City of Edinburgh. Edinburgh East and Musselburgh covers north east of the City of Edinburgh and the Musselburgh area of East Lothian. Edinburgh North and Leith covers the northern part of the City of Edinburgh. Edinburgh Pentlands covers the south western portion of the City of Edinburgh. Edinburgh South covers the south eastern portion of the City of Edinburgh. Edinburgh West covers the north western portion of the City of Edinburgh. Linlithgow covers the eastern part of the West Lothian. Livingston covers the western part of the West Lothian. Midlothian covers the eastern part of Midlothian.

The table below displays the Members of the Scottish Parliament that were elected from the Lothians region between 1999 and 2011. From the2011 election theLothian region was used.

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

In the2007 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

• 5Labour MSPs (four constituency members and one additional member)
• 5Scottish National Party MSPs (two constituency members and three additional members)
• 2Liberal Democrat MSPs (two constituency members)
• 2Conservative MSPs (one constituency and one additional member)
• 1Scottish Green Party MSPs (additional members)
• 1Independent MSP (additional member)

Changes:

• On 31 August 2007,Stefan Tymkewycz resigned to concentrate on being a councillor at theCity of Edinburgh Council and was replaced byShirley-Anne Somerville.

In the2003 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

• 6Labour MSPs (all constituency members)
• 2Liberal Democrat MSPs (two constituency members)
• 2Conservative MSPs (one constituency and one additional member)
• 2Scottish Green Party MSPs (both additional members)
• 2Scottish National Party MSPs (both additional members)
• 1Independent MSP (additional member)
• 1Scottish Socialist Party MSP (additional member)

In the1999 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

• 8Labour MSPs (all constituency members)
• 3Scottish National Party MSPs (all additional members)
• 2Liberal Democrat MSPs (one constituency member and one additional member)
• 2Conservative MSPs (both additional members)
• 1Green Party MSP (additional member)

• Politics of Midlothian
• Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions 1999–2011
• Lothian

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