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Banff and Buchan
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SNP hold
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Alex Salmond
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12,845 (32.0%)
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9,564 (23.8%)
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4,747 (11.8%)
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2,398 ( 6.0%)
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22,409 (55.8%)
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1,060 ( 2.6%)
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SNP
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58,493
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40,178 (68.7%)
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Alex Salmond
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Banff and Buchan
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6,568 (16.1%)
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14,156 (34.7%)
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3,501 ( 8.6%)
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2,387 ( 5.9%)
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20,724 (50.8%)
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0 ( 0.0%)
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Nationalist
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58,015
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40,768 (70.3%)
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-10.9%
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+3.2%
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+0.1%
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+4.9%
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+2.6%
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+0.8%
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-1.6%
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Since September 1990, the leader of the Scottish National Party has been Alex Salmond, the honourable member for Banff and Buchan, which covers the north-eastern corner of Scotland. Salmond increased his majority to 4,000 in 1992, and with favourable boundary changes (transferral of Turriff, situated in the only electoral division in Banff and Buchan to vote Conservative in May 1994, to Gordon constituency) he seems to have an excellent chance of making this a very safe SNP seat.
The two largest towns are Fraserburgh and Peterhead, which expanded through North Sea oil in the 1970s. Both are SNP strongholds, awarding their candidates 80 per cent of the votes in the May 1994 regional elections.
Labour and the Lib Dems are extremely weak in Banff and Buchan, failing to present candidates in many local elections. With the apparent renewed decline of the Conservative Party in Scotland, there seems likely to be little effective opposition to Salmond in his smaller but safer seat.
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1,134
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4.27
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9.03
|
47
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|
|
1,016
|
3.83
|
11.17
|
34
|
|
|
3,355
|
12.64
|
11.25
|
112
|
|
|
3,586
|
13.51
|
14.70
|
92
|
|
|
396
|
1.49
|
10.45
|
14
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|
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4,748
|
17.88
|
2.81
|
635
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|
|
1,739
|
6.55
|
8.01
|
82
|
|
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4,478
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16.86
|
15.25
|
111
|
|
|
3,502
|
13.19
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7.13
|
185
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2,599
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9.79
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10.17
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96
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