Monday, March 5, 2012

First minister's seat to lose its famous name

Gordon district - First Minister Alex Salmond's constituency -could be swept away by the next election.

The Boundary Commission for Scotland has put forward provisionalchanges for 2011.

The Gordon name would vanish with part of its area absorbed bythe new constituencies of East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire.

The Buchan Coast constituency will have much of what is now Banffand Buchan.

Aberdeen North, Aberdeen Central and Aberdeen South would bereplaced by Aberdeen East, Aberdeen West, and Aberdeen South andNorth Kincardine. Other constituencies would be Moray, East Angusand Mearns, and West Angus.

An SNP spokesman said: "We are …

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