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{{Short description|Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 2005 onwards}}
{{Distinguish|Perthshire North (Scottish Parliament constituency)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Coord|56.395|-3.435|display=title|region:GB_scale:200000}}▼
{{Infobox UK constituency main
|name = Perth and North Perthshire
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|map_year =
|year = 2005
|abolished = 2024
|type = County
|elects_howmany =
|previous = [[Perth (UK Parliament constituency)|Perth]] (parts of),<br />[[North Tayside (UK Parliament constituency)|North Tayside]] (parts of)
|next = [[Perth and Kinross-shire (UK Parliament constituency)|Perth and Kinross-shire]]
|electorate =
|mp =
|party =
|towns = [[Blair Atholl]], [[Dunkeld and Birnam]], [[Invergowrie]], [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]], [[Pitlochry]]
|region = Scotland
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|european = Scotland
}}
'''Perth and North Perthshire'''
▲'''Perth and North Perthshire''' is a [[county constituency]] of the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]. It elects one [[Member of Parliament (MP)]] by the [[first past the post]] system of [[election]]. The seat was created in 2005. The seat is statistically, in local percentage terms, the second-closest result of the 2017 contests nationwide.
Campaigns in the seat have resulted in a minimum of 30% of votes at each election consistently for the same two parties' choice for candidate, and the next lower-placed party's having fluctuated between 8.1% and 18.7% of the vote since its relatively recent creation. The seat attracted a record seven candidates in 2015 and has seen as few as four, in 2017.
Further to the completion of the [[2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies]], the seat was abolished. Subject to boundary changes{{snd}}entailing the transfer of "North Perthshire" to the new constituency of [[Angus and Perthshire Glens (UK Parliament constituency)|Angus and Perthshire Glens]], offset by the addition of [[Strathearn]], [[Almond and Earn (ward)|Almond and Earn]] and [[Kinross-shire]] from the abolished constituency of [[Ochil and South Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Ochil and South Perthshire]]{{snd}}it was be reformed as [[Perth and Kinross-shire (UK Parliament constituency)|'''Perth and Kinross-shire''']], first contested at the [[2024 United Kingdom general election|2024 general election]].<ref>[https://www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2023_review_final/bcs_2023_review_report_web_version.pdf Boundary Commission Scotland 2023 Review Report]</ref>
== Boundaries ==
{{maplink|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Perth and North Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)}}|frame=yes|text=Map of boundaries 2005-2024}}
As a result of the Fifth Periodical Review<ref name="Fifth Review">{{cite web|title=Fifth Periodical Review of UK Parliament constituencies Final Recommendations|url=http://www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk/5th_westminster/finalrecommendations/final.asp#Perth_and_Kinross|website=Boundary Commission forScotland|access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref> of the [[Boundary Commission for Scotland]], the constituency (seat) was created to cover northern parts of the [[Perth and Kinross council area]], and first used in the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]]. [[Ochil and South Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Ochil and South Perthshire]] was created, at the same time, to cover the rest of that council area and the [[Clackmannanshire council area]].▼
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▲As a result of the Fifth Periodical Review<ref name="Fifth Review"/> of the [[Boundary Commission for Scotland]], the constituency (seat) was created to cover northern parts of the [[Perth and Kinross council area]], and first used in the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]]. [[Ochil and South Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Ochil and South Perthshire]] was created, at the same time, to cover the rest of that council area and the [[Clackmannanshire council area]].
Before the 2005 election, these combined council areas had been covered by [[Angus (UK Parliament constituency)|Angus]], [[Ochil (UK Parliament constituency)|Ochil]], [[Perth (UK Parliament constituency)|Perth]] and [[North Tayside (UK Parliament constituency)|North Tayside]] seats. The Perth seat lay within the Perth and Kinross council area, North Tayside covered a northern portion of that council area and a northern portion of the [[Angus council area]], Angus covered a small southeastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area, a southern portion of its associated council area, and northern portions of the [[Dundee City council area]], and Ochil covered another southeastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area, the whole of the Clackmannanshire council area and a southeastern portion of the [[Stirling council area]].
== Constituency profile ==
The seat's voters stretch across the north of the [[Perth and Kinross]] local council area in Scotland. It
Notwithstanding the possibility of breakthrough national and local campaigns and developments, campaigns to date have produced a close-run two-candidate contest as to the lion's share of the votes between the Conservative and the Scottish National Parties' candidates. During the main forerunner seat's existence ([[Perth and East Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Perth and East Perthshire]], created in 1950), it returned MPs loyal to the [[Unionist Party (Scotland)|Unionist Party]] and the Conservative and Unionist Party after the parties amalgamated in 1965.
The seat was one of eleven in Scotland to elect an SNP MP to Parliament at the [[October 1974 United Kingdom general election|1974 October general election]]. With a rearrangement ([[Redistribution of Seats Act 1885|redistribution]]) of seats in [[1979 United Kingdom general election|1979]] the successor seat of [[North Tayside (UK Parliament constituency)|North Tayside]] went on to return Conservative candidate [[Bill Walker (Scottish Conservative politician)|Bill Walker]] to Parliament until he was defeated by [[John Swinney]] of the SNP at the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 UK general election]] - from that point onwards the seat elected successive SNP members as its MP. The Conservatives narrowly missed out on gaining the seat at the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 UK general election]]: Douglas Taylor coming behind Pete Wishart by 1,521 votes. Wishart increased his majority such as with 9,641 votes clearance in [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015]]. The Conservative missed out on gaining the seat by 21 votes at the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 general election]], the third-closest result in the nation after [[North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency)|North East Fife]] and [[Kensington (UK Parliament constituency)|Kensington]], but ahead of Kensington if ranked by percentage of the votes locally cast.<ref name="2017 general">{{cite news |last=Gallagher |first=Paul |date=2017-06-09 |title=General election 2017: The smallest majorities of the night |url=https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/politics/general-election-smallest-majorities-constituencies/ |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=2017-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/insights/ge2017-marginal-seats-and-turnout/|title=GE2017: Marginal seats and turnout|first=House of Commons|last=Library|date=June 23, 2017}}</ref>
== Members of Parliament ==
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!Party
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|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Scottish National Party
|[[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005]] || [[Pete Wishart]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Pete Wishart MP|url=https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/pete-wishart/1440|website=parliament.uk|access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref> || [[Scottish National Party|SNP]]
|}
== Elections ==
[[File:NorthPerth2019GE.png|thumb|center|750px|General election results of Perth and North Perthshire from 2005
===Elections in the 2010s===
{{Election box begin|
|title=[[2019 United Kingdom general election|General election 2019]]: Perth and North Perthshire<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pkc.gov.uk/media/45201/Statement-of-Persons-Nominated-and-Notice-of-Poll/pdf/Notice-of-poll-UKPGE.pdf?m=637093319351970000|title=Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Polll|website=Perth and Kinross Council|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/politics/constituencies/S14000054|title=Perth & North Perthshire parliamentary constituency - Election 2019|access-date=2019-12-15|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name="CBP-8749">{{cite web |url=https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8749/CBP-8749.pdf |date=28 January 2020 |title=Commons Briefing Paper 8749. General Election 2019: results and analysis |publisher=[[House of Commons Library]] |location=London |access-date=19 January 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118043715/https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8749/CBP-8749.pdf |archive-date=18 November 2021}}</ref>
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link
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|votes = 19,812
|percentage = 36.6
|change = -5.
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
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|votes = 7,550
|percentage = 14.0
|change = +
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 54,
|percentage = 74.4
|change = +2.6
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Perth and North Perthshire was the third most [[marginal seat|marginal]] result in the United Kingdom and second most marginal result in Scotland at the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 general election]], with incumbent SNP MP Pete Wishart seeing his majority cut from 9,641 votes (17.8%) to just 21 votes (0.0%) ahead of the Conservatives, although he did receive the highest number of votes for any SNP candidate.<ref name="2017 general" />
{{Election box begin|title=[[2017 United Kingdom general election|General election 2017]]: Perth and North Perthshire<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/general-election/general-election-snp-reselects-54-mps-1-4426658|title=General Election: SNP reselects 54 MPs|date=9 May 2017|website=The Scotsman}}</ref><ref name="CBP-7979">{{cite web |url=https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7979/CBP-7979.pdf |title=Commons Briefing Paper 7979. General Election 2017: results and analysis |edition=Second |date=29 January 2019 |orig-date=7 April 2018 |publisher=[[House of Commons Library]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112183438/https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7979/CBP-7979.pdf |archive-date=12 November 2019}}</ref>
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
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|votes = 14,739
|percentage = 30.5
|change = +0.
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{{Election box candidate with party link
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|votes = 1,521
|percentage = 3.3
|change = -7.7
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{{Election box turnout
|votes = 45,930
|percentage = 64.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box new seat win|
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==References==
{{Reflist
==External links==
*[https://mapit.mysociety.org/area/14451.html Perth and North Perthshire UK Parliament constituency] (boundaries April 2005 – May 2024) at ''MapIt UK''
{{Constituencies in Scotland by Holding Party}}
{{Scottish Westminster constituencies}}
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