Falkirk East (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Falkirk East is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the plurality method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
From the 2011 Scottish Parliament election Falkirk East was reformed and reshaped.Electoral region
The other eight constituencies of the Central Scotland region are Airdrie and Shotts, Coatbridge and Chryston, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, East Kilbride, Falkirk West, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, Motherwell and Wishaw and Uddingston and Bellshill.
The region covers all of the Falkirk council area, all of the North Lanarkshire council area and part of the South Lanarkshire council area.The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.
From the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the newly reshaped Falkirk East was formed from the following electoral wards:
Election results
2010s
2000s
1990s
