West of Scotland

West of Scotland is one of the eight electoral areas for the Scottish Parliament through which 7 of the 56 Additional Members System MSPs are elected.

It covers an area including all of the local authority areas of West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and Inverclyde, as well as parts of Argyll and Bute and North Ayrshire.

Scottish Parliament Vote, 1999

Political Party	Votes	Share of Vote (%)	% Change	List Seats Won
Labour	119,663	38.5	N/A	0
SNP	80,417	25.9	N/A	4
Conservative	48,666	15.7	N/A	2
Lib Dems	34,095	11.0	N/A	1
Greens	8,174	2.6	N/A	0
SSP	5,944	1.9	N/A	0
SLP	4,472	1.4	N/A	0
PA	3,227	1.0	N/A	0
Independent	2,761	0.9	N/A	0
SUP	1,840	0.6	N/A	0
NLP	589	0.2	N/A	0
Independent	565	0.2	N/A	0

MSPs Elected:

SNP - Colin Campbell, Kay Ullrich, Lloyd Quinan, Fiona McLeod
Conservatives - Annabel Goldie, John Young
Lib Dem - Ross Finnie

See Also:

Scottish Parliamentary Election, 1999

Scottish Parliament Vote, 2003

Political Party	Votes	Share of Vote (%)	% Change	List Seats Won
Labour	83,931	32.6	-5.9	0
SNP	50,387	19.6	-6.3	3
Conservative	40,261	15.7	-	2
Lib Dems	31,580	12.3	+1.3	1
SSP	18,591	7.2	+5.3	1
Greens	14,544	5.7	+3.1	0
SSCUP	7,100	2.8	N/A	0
PLP	3,674	1.4	N/A	0
SLP	3,155	1.2	-0.2	0
UKIP	1,662	0.6	N/A	0
SUP	1,617	0.6	-	0
SPA	674	0.3	N/A	0

MSPs Elected:

SNP - Campbell Martin, Bruce McFee, Stewart Maxwell
Conservatives - Annabel Goldie, Murray Tosh
Lib-Dem - Ross Finnie
SSP - Frances Curran

See Also:

Scottish Parliamentary Election, 2003

Categories: Scottish politics

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