| West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Map1: | WestAberdeenshireKincardine |
| Map Size: | 250px |
| Map Entity: | Scotland |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Year2: | 1918 |
| Abolished2: | 1950 |
| Type: | County |
| Previous: | Kincardine and Deeside |
| Previous2: | Aberdeenshire Western and Kincardineshire |
| Next2: | West Aberdeenshire and North Angus and Mearns |
| Mp: | Andrew Bowie |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Towns: | Laurencekirk, Portlethen, Stonehaven, Banchory, Braemar |
| European: | Scotland |
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Westminster), which elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was first used in the 1997 general election, but has undergone boundary changes since that date. West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine was re-created as a parliamentary constituency in 1997, having previously existed as Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire from 1918 to 1950.
There was also a Holyrood constituency of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, a constituency of the Scottish Parliament,[1] created in 1999 with the same boundaries as the Westminster constituency at that time.
In 1868, the constituency of Aberdeenshire was divided into Aberdeenshire Eastern and Aberdeenshire Western divisions. These continued as constituencies until 1918, when the county of Aberdeenshire and the county of Kincardineshire were treated as if a single county for parliamentary representation purposes, with the area of the former Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire constituencies being divided into three new constituencies, Aberdeen and Kincardine East, Aberdeen and Kincardine Central and Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West. In 1950 the Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire counties were separated again, and a new boundary divided the Aberdeenshire area into East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire.
Kincardine and Deeside District, and the Gordon District electoral divisions of Donside and South Gordon.
The area of the Aberdeenshire Council other than those parts in the Banff and Buchan County Constituency and the Gordon County Constituency.
The constituency covers a southern portion of the Aberdeenshire council area.
As redefined by the Fifth Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland.[2] and subsequently first used in the 2005 general election, it is one of five constituencies covering the Aberdeenshire council area and the Aberdeen City council area. To the northeast of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine there are the constituencies of Aberdeen North and Aberdeen South, which are both entirely within the Aberdeen City area. To the north of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, there is the Gordon constituency, which covers part of the Aberdeenshire area and part of the Aberdeen City area, and further north there is the Banff and Buchan constituency which, like West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, is entirely within the Aberdeenshire area.
The West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine constituency includes the towns of Stonehaven, Portlethen and Banchory, and stretches along the Dee river valley from Westhill to Braemar, and north to Kemnay in the Don river valley, which were with the Gordon constituency until 2005, but are now within this constituency.
The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies left the constituency unchanged.
| Election | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Sir Robert Smith | Liberal Democrats | ||
| 2015 | Stuart Donaldson | SNP | ||
| 2017 | Andrew Bowie | Conservative | ||