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Across Berwickshire, Roxburghshire and the ward of Selkirkshire, the
SNP is organised to coordinate and raise
funding for the campaigning by the two local SNP branches within
the Scottish Parliamentary Constituency for Ettrick,
Roxburgh and Berwickshire. It also serves the very important role
of pooling the efforts of our members and activists in promoting the
interests of the Borders.
In the constituency, we have two branches:
Berwickshire Branch
covering Mid and East Berwickshire Wards
Roxburgh
& Selkirk Branch covering
the ward of Selkirkshire as well as Hawick and Denholm, Hawick and Hermitage, Jedburgh & District
and Kelso & District Wards. The constituency which has an
electorate in excess of 55,000 voters includes key towns such as
Hawick, Selkirk, Jedburgh, Duns, Coldstream, Eyemouth, Kelso, and
Newcastleton and their surrounding districts in which the very many
villages that help to may the region so distinctive and appealing
are located..
Our prospective parliamentary candidate for the next election on May
5th 2011 will be Paul
Wheelhouse, an economist and education policy analyst who lives
locally and is a community councillor in the village of Ayton, near
Eyemouth, in East Berwickshire. Our branches also campaign
together with Central Borders branch in Westminster elections and the Westminster constituency includes
all of the Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire Scottish Parliamentary
Constituency and the Galashiels and District ward, Leaderdale and
Melrose ward and a small area of Tweeddale East (Clovenfords in the
main). The electorate of that Westminster seat is just over
74,000 voters.
The 2007 local council elections held under proportional representation for
the first time saw a contingent of 6 SNP councillors elected across
the Scottish Borders, and indeed we were just 6 votes away from
winning a seventh seat. The SNP now forms the main opposition to the ruling
Lib Dem/Tory/Independent Council. Five of our 6 local councillors have
all or part of their wards covered by the BRS constituency, while 3
are located within the Ettrick Roxburgh & Berwickshire seat in the
Scottish Parliament..
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