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  • City of Edinburgh Council Harry your local councillor about vital Edinburgh issues, at the council's official home on the web. Tracking him or her down is easy with a search facility or a click-and-see map of city wards. You can also find the latest news on city developments in this burgeoning site as well as more general stats on population, economy, and doing business in the city.
  • Edinburgh Cenus 2001 Detailed Edinburgh demographic information, city trends, and population for the city. For example, did you know the population of the city increased from 418,748 residents in 1991 to 448,624 residents in 2001, a 7% increase?
  • Scottish Parliament The official site for the Scottish Parliament has information on topics like new legislation, the parliament building, election results, proceedural details, MSPs biographies, and so on.
  • Scottish Executive Get details of latest policy initiatives and information on the jurisdictions of various ministerial departments in parliament North of the border.
  • History of the Scottish Crown Guide to the Scottish monarchy at the Queen's official site.
  • COSLA The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.
  • Alba.org.uk Also, known as "The Scottish Politics Pages". Commentary on the Scottish political scene.
  • Communities Scotland Government body responsible for housing.
  • Stationary Office Official Documents Official documents relating to the government in the whole of the UK.
  • Houses of Parliament Lest we forget in all the excitement over the first Scottish parliament in almost 300 years, we are still a part of the UK. Many of the important laws of the land are decided down South. The online version of Hansard, the record of parliamentry debate, may look a little rough around the edges but it works -- at least MPs seem to like it.
  • Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland Non-political body that reviews ward boundaries for local Scottish elections.
  • Boundary Commission for Scotland Body that reviews Parliamentary Constituencies in Edinburgh and throughout Scotland.

Edinburgh, being the Scottish capital, is the seat of government in Scotland. The Scottish government sits in the parliament building opposite Holyrood Palace.

Members of Parliament 2005
John Barrett (Lib Dem) - MP Edinburgh West (22,417 votes*)
Alistair Darling (Lab) - MP Edinburgh Central (17,476 votes)**
Gavin Strang (Lab) - MP Edinburgh East (15,899 votes)
Mark Lazarowicz (Lab) - MP Edinburgh North and Leith (14,597 votes)
Nigel Griffiths (Lab) - MP Edinburgh South (14,183 votes)

* total number of votes won by MP in 2005 election
** Alistair Darling does not have a web site but is Secretary of State for Scotland, representing Scotland’s interests at Westminster, and Minister of Transport.



 

 


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