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The BRS Constituency Association exists to coordinate and raise
funding for the campaigning by the three local SNP branches within
the Westminster (UK) Parliamentary Constituency for Berwickshire,
Roxburgh and Selkirk. 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 three branches:
Berwickshire Branch
covering Mid and East Berwickshire Wards
Roxburghshire Branch covering
Hawick and Denholm, Hawick and Hermitage, Jedburgh & District
and Kelso & District Wards
Selkirkshire Branch
covering Galashiels and District, Leaderdale & Melrose and
Selkirkshire Wards The Westminster constituency includes
all of the Roxburgh and Berwickshire Scottish Parliamentary
Constituency and most of the Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
Constituency. The electorate is just over 74,000 voters.
The constituency includes key towns such as Hawick, Galashiels,
Selkirk, Jedburgh, Duns, Coldstream, Earlston, Eyemouth, Melrose, Kelso,
Newcastleton and
Lauder 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,
whenever it is held, 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.
The recent local 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.
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