Current MSP: John Lamont (Conservative) [MSP website]
Party Candidate Votes +/– % +/–
Conservative John Lamont * 12933 +1597 44.9 +5.8
SNP Paul Wheelhouse 7599 +2445 26.4 +8.6
Liberal Democrat Euan Robson 4990 -4832 17.3 -16.5
Labour Rab Stewart 2986 +582 10.4 +2.1
Independent Jesse Rae# 308 +308 1.1 +1.1
Majority 5334 Turnout 28816 Swing +1.4% CON hold

With no clear challenger given the decrease in the Liberal Democrat vote nationally, a Conservative hold was relatively comfortable in 2011. John Lamont first won the equivalent seat, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, in 2007 from Euan Robson, a former Liberal Democrat Minister, who fell back into third in 2011. Paul Wheelhouse was elected a list MSP for the SNP.

Notes: Given boundary changes since 2007, variations in votes and share between seats with different boundaries would be misleading. We use the Denver figures, essentially a calculation of the 2007 votes cast within 2011 boundaries. More information on this here.

Symbols used:

* – Incumbent
^ – Challenger holding a list seat in previous Parliament
# – Lost deposit