General Election 2024 Q&A for voters in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
dailyrecord.co.ukThe Daily Record is taking out some time during this busy general election campaign to focus on seats-to-watch in Scotland.
With polling day approaching on July 4, we've answered some of the top questions for voters in the new seat of Aberdeenshire North and Moray East - expected to be a fight between the Tories and the SNP. Who’s running? Douglas Ross - ConservativesSeamus Logan - SNPAndy Brown - LabourJo Hart - ReformIan Bailey - Liberal Democrats Who won last time? This is a new seat but it’s closest equivalent in 2019, Banff and Buchan, was retained by Tory David Duguid relatively comfortably, increasing his majority to more than 4000.The redrawn constituency also contains part of Moray - the old Moray seat was won by Douglas Ross five years ago although he only squeaked home by around 500 votes. Who are the contenders this time? For decades, this area was an SNP stronghold - with Banff and Buchan held by Alex Salmond from 1987 to 2010 and then Eilidh Whiteford until 2017, while Moray was represented first by Margaret Ewing then Angus Robertson over the same period.The Nationalists will be hoping they can end the seven-year Tory reign here with this among their top target seats. What swing does the SNP need to win? Combining the results from the two former constituencies in 2019, the Nats need a swing of just 2.6 per cent to oust the Conservatives.They may be aided by Nigel Farage’s Reform party squeezing the Tory vote from the right. Didn’t this area back Brexit? Not quite.
Every single council area in Scotland backed Remain in the 2016 referendum - however, Moray was the closest to all of them to going the other way, with a razor-thin 50.1 per cent majority voting to stay in the EU.Along the north-east coast, the
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