Aberdeen is Scotland's third largest city, but is most widely-known as Europe’s oil capital. It is also a fishing port although fishing is no longer the massive employer it once was.
The city’s economy now relies largely on the oil industry, and has therefore suffered from the downturn in the oil industry in recent years.
The residential areas in this seat are mixed, it contains some of the city’s most affluent districts - around Rubislaw and Queen’s Road - but also more working class areas such as Woodside, St Machar, Linksfield and Causewayend.
This seat holds the city centre, old town, university and football stadium as well.
Frank Doran won the seat in 1997 with a majority of 10,801 (30.32%) - the largest in Aberdeen. His former researcher, Lewis MacDonald, won it for Labour at the 1999 Scottish Parliament elections, with a shrunken majority of 2,696 (10.17%) on a smaller turnout than at the general election.
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