Subdivisions of Scotland Midlothian European Parliament constituency Scotland Replaced by Midlothian and Peebles | Created 1955 Member of parliament Owen Thompson | |
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Created from Midlothian and Peeblesshire | ||
Midlothian in Scotland, is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post voting system.
It replaced Midlothian and Peeblesshire at the 1955 general election. A similar constituency, also called Midlothian, was used by the Scottish Parliament until 2011.
Boundaries
The constituency covers the whole of the Midlothian council area. Until recently, it covered a slightly smaller area, but in 2005 Penicuik was moved into the constituency from Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale.
It has covered a much larger area in the past, once covering the whole of the traditional county of Midlothian, apart from Edinburgh.
References
Midlothian (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA