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Lothian East (/ ˈ l oʊ ð i ə n /; Scots: Lowden East; Scottish Gaelic: Lodainn an Ear) is a constituency in Scotland which returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system. The constituency was formerly known as East Lothian.
Kenneth Wright MacAskill (born 28 April 1958) is a Scottish politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Lothian from 2019 to 2024.He previously served as Cabinet Secretary for Justice from 2007 to 2014 and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2016.
Colours on map indicate the party allegiance of each constituency's MP. This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Scottish constituencies at the 2019 United Kingdom general election for the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024).
MP Constituency Party In constituency since Majority Majority (%) Zubir Ahmed: Glasgow South West: Labour: 2024: 3,285 9.2 Douglas Alexander: Lothian East
The current MP for Lothian East is Douglas Alexander of the Labour Party, who has represented the constituency since the 2024 general election, replacing Alba Party MP, Kenny MacAskill. Former UK Prime Minister Arthur Balfour was born on 25 July 1848 at Whittingehame House in what is now the Lothian East constituency.
[a] A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Lothian East since 2024. He was previously MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, formerly Paisley South, from 1997 to 2015 and served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Scottish Secretary, Transport Secretary and International Development Secretary in the ...
The East Lothian 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 (House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies. [2]
Whitfield was named as the official Labour Party candidate for the East Lothian constituency at the 2017 UK general election, [10] [11] where he unseated the sitting Scottish National Party MP, George Kerevan. [9] Whitfield was an active opponent of Brexit and a strong supporter of a second referendum, referred to as a "People's Vote".