The seat is currently held by Stephen Flynn of the Scottish National Party since the 2019 general election.

The seat covers most of Aberdeen's affluent West End and the outer villages of Bieldside, Cults, Milltimber and Peterculter.

[2][3] The seat also extends south-east across the River Dee to cover the suburb of Cove Bay and the more deprived neighbourhoods of Torry and Kincorth.

Aberdeen South then consisted of the municipal wards of St Nicholas, Rosemount, Rubislaw and Ferryhill, and the 9th Parliamentary Polling District.

The new boundaries were first used in the 1918 general election, and Aberdeen South then consisted of the wards of Ferryhill, Rosemount, Rubislaw, Ruthrieston and St Nicholas.

[citation needed] For the 1950 general election boundaries were redefined again, by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949.

By the time of the 1955 general election, a boundary review had taken account of a small enlargement of the city area.

The enlarged City of Aberdeen district included areas covered by the constituencies of West Aberdeenshire and North Angus and Mearns.

In this period the constituency was made up of the Aberdeen City Council wards of Queens Cross, Gilcomston, Langstane, Hazlehead, Peterculter, Murtle, Cults, Seafield, Ashley, Broomhill, Garthdee, Gairn, Duthie, Torry, Tullos Hill, Kincorth West, Nigg, Loirston, as provided for by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995.

From the 1970 general election onwards, Aberdeen South returned Conservative MPs to Parliament.

Recently the Conservatives have made a set of substantial advances in Aberdeen South, making gains in the constituency at the 2015 UK general election despite seeing a drop in their national vote share across Scotland.

Ross Thomson of the Conservatives went on to gain the seat at the 2017 snap general election with a majority of 4,752 votes (10.6%) ahead of the sitting SNP MP Callum McCaig.