Jack McConnell, as First Minister, entered the election defending a small overall majority of five seats via a coalition of Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
Annabel Goldie was elected leader of the Scottish Conservatives in November 2005 [34] after the resignation of the incumbent David McLetchie on 31 October 2005 after a row surrounding taxi expenses. Scottish Parliament Constituencies and Electoral Regions, first Scottish Parliament election in 1999, Opinion polling in the Scottish Parliament election, 2007, a similarly higher rate of spoiled ballots, Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions, Scottish Christian Party- Another Approach Restoring the Land of the Book, Scottish Green Party - Act Now: Choose a Green Future, Scottish Liberal Democrats- We think Scotland has a bright future, Scottish Socialist Party- People Not Profit, "Scotland Act 1998 – Part I – Section 2 – General elections", https://www.parliament.scot/msps/25388.aspx, "Scottish elections 2007 The independent review of the Scottish Parliamentary and local government elections 3 May 2007", "The unfortunate natural experiment in ballot design:The Scottish Parliamentary elections of 2007", "Electronic automated data capture services and document scanning specialists", "Electronic counting to take over from tellers at elections", "Green light for DRS & ERS to deliver e-Count for 2007 Scottish Elections", "Salmond is SNP leader again with Sturgeon as No 2", "Tories have their 'coronation' as Goldie becomes leader unopposed", "Scottish green party elects new party co-conveners", Scottish Elections Between 1997 and present. She served as a junior minister in the Labour–Liberal Democrat coalition Scottish Executive from 2004 until the coalition's defeat by the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2007. The Scottish National Party emerged as the largest party with 47 seats, closely followed by the incumbent Scottish Labour Party with 46 seats.
Congratulations on this excellent venture⦠what a great idea! The Lab-LD social liberal coalition had been in power, with three different First Ministers, since the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999. [18] Standing in the Glasgow Regional List[19] the party finished last of 23 candidates, receiving only 80 votes (0.04%), a record low. Turnout was 55.7%, an increase of 5.3% points from 2011. The right side shows regional winners of the election for the additional members by their party colours .
[21] With some constituencies such as Glasgow Shettleston having rejection rates as high as 12.1%. Local elections in Scotland fell on the same day.
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No breakdown is available by age. Each constituency is a sub-division of a region; the additional members system is designed to produce proportional representation for each region, and the total number of MSPs elected to the parliament is 129. The left side shows constituency winners of the election by their party colours. The current Scottish National Party leader, Nicola Sturgeon, has served as First Minister of Scotland since November 2014.
(Solidarity is a new party, having broken away from the SSP in 2006.).
He was the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) for over 20 years, serving two terms, from 1990 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2014. Harper became an MSP in the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, the first ever elected Green parliamentarian in the United Kingdom. * All products require an annual contract; Prices do not include sales tax. The seat was successfully defended by the SNP's Richard Lochhead, increasing the majority over the Scottish Conservative Party by 1073 votes. Public opinion research …
Many blamed e-counting for the increase in rejected papers, in part because the new machine counting system abandoned many counts during the early hours of Friday morning before all results had been counted. The Scottish National Party emerged as the largest party with 47 seats, closely followed by the incumbent Scottish Labour Party with 46 seats. [22] For comparison, the rejected ballot paper rate in 2003 was 0.65% for regional ballot papers and 0.66% for constituency ballot papers.