Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries - Revised Proposals for Region Boundaries and Names

Overview

Our Revised Proposals for Scottish Parliament Regions

Below is a map showing our Revised Proposals for consultation. Three regions are unchanged from our earlier consultation. We are consulting on the following five regions:

• Central and Lothians West - new boundary and name
• Edinburgh and Lothians East - new name
• Glasgow - new boundary
• South Scotland - new boundary
• West Scotland - new boundary

What is happening?

The Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries started in September 2022. Since then we have consulted on proposals for constituencies and in September and October 2024 we consulted on regions for the first time, our  Provisional Proposals.

For the regions that are unchanged from the Provisional Proposals stage, Boundaries Scotland has agreed to adopt those Provisional Proposals as its Final Recommendations, subject to satisfactory regions being designed in neighbouring areas. There will be no consultation on these regions at this stage. 

As before the rules that govern Scottish Parliament region design are

• a constituency must fall wholly within a region.
• the electorate of a region must be as near the regional electorate of each of the other regions as is practicable, having regard (where appropriate) to special geographical considerations.

Why is this happening?

Boundaries Scotland undertakes reviews of Scottish Parliament boundaries every 8-12 years to ensure each region or constituency has an equal number of electors.

What Boundaries Scotland says

We once again want to hear the views of the public on our proposals, we will reflect on responses to the consultation and make changes where appropriate and where the legislation allows us to do so.  We strongly encourage people to make their views heard. 

This review is of electoral boundaries (constituencies and regions) only and therefore does not affect any other boundaries (UK constituencies, local authorities, community councils, health boards etc).  For individuals, this review does not affect the council area in which they live nor the way local services are accessed. 

Why your views matter

Your views play a vital role in shaping our boundaries and they also provide important local knowledge to help us improve our proposals. 

We are also consulting on our Additional Proposals for Scottish Parliament Constituencies. Click here to take part in that consultation.