Arbroath & Broughty Ferry.

Arbroath and Broughty Ferry is a Scottish seat of just under 100,000 people, stretched along the Angus coast and into the eastern edge of Dundee. As the name signals, two principal places anchor it: the harbour town of Arbroath to the north and the suburb of Broughty Ferry on the Tay. Between and around them sit the smaller towns of Carnoustie, Monifieth and a band of rural Angus, so the constituency reads as a network of coastal towns rather than a single dominant centre. Its median age of 46 runs a little older than the national figure. Two authorities run local services here, both Scottish council authorities: Angus Council covers four of the seat's wards, Dundee City Council the other three.

That split council geography is mirrored in a crowded local politics. Across the twenty-one most recent ward contests, the Scottish National Party took nine, with the Conservatives and Labour on four apiece, three independents and one Liberal Democrat, so no party commands the ground outright. Most of those results date from 2022, with only one ward refreshed in 2024, which tends to flatter the established picture. At Westminster the seat was new in 2024, and the SNP won its first contest on 35.3 per cent, with Labour close behind on 33.4. The sitting member, Stephen Gethins, took the seat on that slim margin; his recorded speaking has leaned toward defence, the economy and fiscal policy.

On the figures available, this is a finely balanced seat rather than a settled one: a two-point gap at the general election, a fragmented ward map, and recent local coverage that has carried an unusually charged, closely watched character. Direction-of-travel across the wards is hard to read with confidence given how dated most of the contests are, and the two-council structure means any swing plays out unevenly between Angus and the Dundee fringe. The standing implication is a contested constituency, in flux rather than safe for any single party.