Election 97

Roxburgh and Berwickshire

Current MP Archie Kirkwood
Conservative 97 8,337
Labour 97 5,226
LibDem 97 16,243
Nationalist 97 3,959
Other 97 244
Elected party
Roxburgh and Berwickshire

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Conservative 92 12,354
Labour 92 3,167
LibDem 92 16,807
Nationalist 92 3,844
Other 92 0
Elected party LibDem

In 1983 the former Liberal seat of Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles, in Scotland's beautiful Border country, was split in two. Both of the new seats are currently held by the Liberal Democrats. The constituency's main market towns of Jedburgh, Hawick and Kelso are set in good farming country with grand country houses. The Conservatives must ache to win Roxburgh and Berwickshire from the Liberal Democrat MP Archie Kirkwood, but this will be a difficult, although not necessarily impossible task.


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