| Overview |
| 1999 to 2011 |
| 2011-2026 (Review) |
| 2026– (Review) |
TheScottish Parliament (Holyrood), created by theScotland Act 1998, has used a system ofconstituencies and electoral regions since thefirst general election in 1999.
The parliament has 73constituencies, each electing oneMember of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by theplurality (first-past-the-post) system of voting, and eightadditional member regions, each electing seven additional MSPs. Each region is a group of constituencies, and theD'Hondt method of allocating additional member seats fromparty lists is used to produce a form ofproportional representation for each region. The total number of parliamentary seats is 129.[1]
Boundaries of Holyrood andHouse of Commons (Westminster) constituencies are subject to review by theBoundaries Scotland, and prior to theScottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004 reviews ofScottish Westminster constituencies would have been also reviews of Holyrood constituencies. TheArbuthnott Commission, in its final report, January 2006, recommended thatcouncil area boundaries and Holyrood and Scottish Westminster constituency boundaries should all be reviewed together. This recommendation has not been implemented.
Until the2005 general election the first-past-the-post constituencies were the same as for theHouse of Commons (United Kingdom Parliament,Westminster), except forOrkney andShetland, which were separate constituencies at Holyrood, but not at Westminster. TheScottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004 enabled a new set of House of Commons constituencies to be formed in Scotland in 2005,[2] reducing their number and, therefore, the number of ScottishMembers of Parliament (MPs) to 59, without change to the Holyrood constituencies and the number of MSPs.
1999 boundaries were used also for the2003 and2007 elections.
The first periodical review of boundaries of Scottish Parliament constituencies[3] was announced on 3 July 2007,[4] and the commission's final recommendations were implemented for the2011 Scottish Parliament election.
Total numbers of constituencies, regions, and MSPs remain at, respectively, 73, 8, and 129.
New constituencies and regions were created by thesecond periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries.[5]
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| Constituency | Members | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–2011 | 2011–2026 | 2026– | 1999 | 2003 | 2007 | 2011 | 14 | 2016 | 2021 | 2026 | |
| Airdrie and Shotts | Whitefield | Neil | TBD | ||||||||
| Almond Valley | in Lothian region | TBD | |||||||||
| Bathgate | in Lothian region (Linlithgow) | TBD | |||||||||
| Coatbridge and Chryston | E. Smith | MacGregor | TBD | ||||||||
| Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | Craigie | Hepburn | TBD | ||||||||
| Falkirk East | Falkirk East and Linlithgow | Peattie | A. MacDonald | Thomson | TBD | ||||||
| Falkirk West | Canavan | Matheson | TBD | ||||||||
| Motherwell and Wishaw | McConnell | Pentland | Adamson | TBD | |||||||
| Hamilton North and Bellshill | Uddingston and Bellshill | M. McMahon | Lyle | Callaghan | TBD | ||||||
| East Kilbride | A. Kerr | Fabiani | Stevenson | in South Scotland region | |||||||
| Hamilton South | Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse | McCabe | McKelvie | in South Scotland region | |||||||
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Jamieson | Coffey | in South Scotland region | ||||||||
| Central Scotland (list seats) | Gorrie | O'Donnell | Griffin | TBD | |||||||
| A. Wilson | Leckie | Hepburn | S. McMahon | Leonard | TBD | ||||||
| Neil | McCulloch | Lennon | TBD | ||||||||
| Fabiani | Lyle | E. Smith | Mackay | TBD | |||||||
| Matheson | McKelvie | Adamson | G. Simpson | TBD | |||||||
| Paterson | Swinburne | J. Wilson | --> | Harris | Kerr | TBD | |||||
| McIntosh | Mitchell | Gallacher | TBD | ||||||||
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| Constituency | Members | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–2011 | 2011–2026 | 2026– | 1999 | 01 | 2003 | 2007 | 2011 | 2016 | 20 | 2021 | 2026 | |
| Strathkelvin and Bearsden | Galbraith | Fitzpatrick | Turner | Whitton | McLeod | R. Mackay | TBD | |||||
| Clydebank and Milngavie | McNulty | Paterson | McNair | TBD | ||||||||
| Dumbarton | Baillie | TBD | ||||||||||
| Eastwood | Macintosh | Carlaw | TBD | |||||||||
| Paisley South | Renfrewshire South | Renfrewshire West and Levern Valley | Henry | Arthur | TBD | |||||||
| Paisley North | Paisley | Alexander | G. Adam | TBD | ||||||||
| West Renfrewshire | Renfrewshire North and West | Renfrewshire North and Cardonald | Godman | D. Mackay | --> | Don | TBD | |||||
| Greenock and Inverclyde | Inverclyde | McNeil | McMillan | TBD | ||||||||
| Cunninghame North | A. Wilson | K. Gibson | TBD | |||||||||
| Cunninghame South | in South of Scotland region | Burgess | Maguire | TBD | ||||||||
| West of Scotland (list seats) | West Scotland (list seats) | C. Campbell | Maxwell | Greer | TBD | |||||||
| Ullrich | Martin | McMillan | Macintosh | Clark | TBD | |||||||
| Quinan | McFee | W. Wilson | Fee | O'Kane | TBD | |||||||
| McLeod | F. Curran | Paterson | Bibby | TBD | ||||||||
| R. Finnie | McDougall | Greene | TBD | |||||||||
| Goldie | Golden | Findlay | TBD | |||||||||
| Young | Tosh | Carlaw | Corry | Gosal | TBD | |||||||
