Gordon and Buchan | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Aberdeenshire |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC (TBC) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Banff and Buchan & Gordon |
Gordon and Buchan is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested at the 2024 general election.
The constituency will comprise the following wards of Aberdeenshire: [2]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nurul Hoque Ali [3] | ||||
Conservative | Harriet Cross [4] | ||||
Scottish Green | Sophie Molly [5] [6] | ||||
Workers Party | Craig Proctor [7] | ||||
SNP | Richard Thomson [8] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Conrad Wood [9] | ||||
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