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East Lothian (, ), is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and a lieutenancy area. For a time, it was also known as Haddingtonshire.
It borders the City of Edinburgh, Midlothian and the Scottish Borders. Its administrative centre is Haddington, although its largest town is Musselburgh. East Lothian is also the name of a registration county, which has different boundaries to the council area.
The council area was created in 1996, replacing the East Lothian district of the Lothian region. The district had been created in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, consisting of the old county of East Lothian plus the burgh of Musselburgh and the parish of Inveresk (which included Wallyford and Whitecraig) which until then had been in the county of Midlothian.
When abolished, for local government purposes, in 1975, the county of East Lothian bordered the county of Midlothian to the west, and Berwickshire to the south.
East Lothian is a constituency in Scotland which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
East Lothian is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the South Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
East Lothian may refer to:-
- East Lothian, a historic county and council area in Scotland
- East Lothian (UK Parliament constituency)
- East Lothian (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Usage examples of "east lothian".
In fact, North and South Esk bears some resemblance to the Midlothian parliamentary constituency - prior to 1983's Boundary Commission changes - but also bites a small southernmost chunk out of the present Edinburgh Pentlands constituency and a westerly chunk out of East Lothian constituency.
Most of lowland Britain was like this now-big patches even in the south and a continuous mass of it from the frontier of settlement here to East Lothian in Scotland-save for preChange forest and moor.
We drank more champagne and unpacked the picnic, which was the glorious gift of arguably the best restaurant in Scotland, La Potiniere at Gullane in East Lothian.