Stirling is a county constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of Stirling. Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 28.
The seat has been held by Alyn Smith of the Scottish National Party since the 2026 Scottish Parliament election.
Electoral region
The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are: Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Fife North East, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Perthshire North, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire. The region covers all of the Clackmannanshire council area, all of the Fife council area, all of the Perth and Kinross council area and all of the Stirling council area.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 143.
Constituency boundaries and council area
The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of a pre-existing House of Commons constituency. For the 2005 United Kingdom general election House of Commons constituencies in Scotland were generally replaced with new larger constituencies whilst Scottish Parliament constituencies were left unchanged, meaning the two sets of constituencies no longer aligned. The Stirling Westminster constituency was slightly enlarged and now includes all of the Stirling council area.
Scottish Parliament constituency boundaries were altered ahead of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election by the first periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries. Since this review, the Stirling council area has been covered by two constituencies, the Stirling seat and Clackmannanshire and Dunblane. The electoral wards of Stirling Council used in the creation of the Stirling seat at the 2011 review were:
Bannockburn (entire ward) Forth and Endrick (entire ward) Stirling East (entire ward) Stirling North (entire ward, which was known as Castle until 2017) Stirling West (entire ward) Trossachs and Teith (entire ward)
At the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries in 2025 the seat boundaries were slightly altered to address the difference in electorate size between the Stirling and Clackmannanshire and Dunblane seats. A portion of the Stirling North ward was transferred to Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, with the rest of this ward remaining in the Stirling constituency.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 140-142. The area removed is the Causewayhead area of Stirling, making the River Forth the northern boundary of the seat in the built-up area of Stirling.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 70.
Member of the Scottish Parliament
Election Member Party 1999 Sylvia Jackson Labour 2007 Bruce Crawford SNP 2021 Evelyn Tweed 2026 Alyn Smith
Election results
2020s
2010s
2000s
1990s
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