West Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)
West Scotland is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament. Ten of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elects a total of 17 MSPs.
The West Scotland electoral region was created as a result of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries and largely replaced the West of Scotland region.[1]
Constituencies and local government areas
In terms of first past the post constituencies the region covers:
| Region | Constituencies | |
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Members of the Scottish Parliament
Constituency MSPs
Regional List MSPs
N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only
| as West of Scotland | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | |||||||
| 1st (1999–2003) |
Colin Campbell (SNP) |
Kay Ullrich (SNP) |
Lloyd Quinan (SNP) |
Fiona McLeod (SNP) |
Ross Finnie (Lib Dem) |
Annabel Goldie (Conservative) |
John Young (Conservative) | |||||||
| 2nd (2003–07) |
Stewart Maxwell (SNP) |
Campbell Martin (SNP) |
Bruce McFee (SNP) |
Frances Curran (Socialist) |
Murray Tosh (Conservative) | |||||||||
| 3rd (2007–11) |
Stuart McMillan (SNP) |
Bill Wilson (SNP) |
Gil Paterson (SNP) |
Jackson Carlaw (Conservative) | ||||||||||
| as West Scotland | ||||||||||||||
| 4th (2011–16) |
Stewart Maxwell (SNP) |
Stuart McMillan (SNP) |
Mary Fee (Labour) |
Neil Bibby (Labour) |
Margaret McDougall (Labour) |
Annabel Goldie (Conservative) |
Jackson Carlaw (Conservative) | |||||||
| 5th (2016–) |
Ross Greer (Green) |
Ken Macintosh (Labour) |
Jamie Greene (Conservative) |
Maurice Golden (Conservative) |
Maurice Corry (Conservative) | |||||||||
Election results
2016 Scottish Parliament election
In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:
- 8 Scottish National Party MSPs (all constituency members)
- 4 Labour MSPs (one constituency member and three additional members)
- 4 Conservative MSPs (one constituency member and three additional members)
- 1 Scottish Green Party MSP (a regional member)
Constituency results
| 2016 Scottish Parliament election: West Scotland | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Constituency | Elected member | Result | ||||
| Clydebank and Milngavie | Gil Paterson | SNP hold | ||||
| Cunninghame North | Kenneth Gibson | SNP hold | ||||
| Cunninghame South | Ruth Maguire | SNP hold | ||||
| Dumbarton | Jackie Baillie | Labour hold | ||||
| Eastwood | Jackson Carlaw | Conservative gain from Labour | ||||
| Greenock and Inverclyde | Stuart McMillan | SNP gain from Labour | ||||
| Paisley | George Adam | SNP hold | ||||
| Renfrewshire North and West | Derek Mackay | SNP hold | ||||
| Renfrewshire South | Tom Arthur | SNP gain from Labour | ||||
| Strathkelvin and Bearsden | Rona Mackay | SNP hold | ||||
Additional member results
Elected regional list MSPs are shown in bold; elected constituency MSPs, who stood on a party list, are shown in italics.
| 2016 Scottish Parliament election: West Scotland[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ± | |
| SNP | Derek Mackay, Stewart Maxwell, Kenneth Gibson, Stuart McMillan, Rona Mackay, Ian McDougall, Gil Paterson, Gail Robertson, Ruth Maguire, Qasim Hanif, Nighet Riaz | 135,827 | 42.2 | +0.6 | |
| Labour | Jackie Baillie, Neil Bibby, Mary Fee, Ken Macintosh, Johanna Baxter, Joe Cullinane, Siobhan McCready, Martin McCluskey, Moira Ramage, Paul Sweeney, Gail Casey, Ben Procter | 72,544 | 22.5 | -10.2 | |
| Conservative | Jackson Carlaw, Jamie Greene, Maurice Golden, Maurice Corry, Andrew Polson, David Wilson, Paul Masterton, Graeme Brooks, Billy McClure, Ann Le Blond | 71,528 | 22.2 | +9.5 | |
| Scottish Green | Ross Greer, Veronika Tudhope, Ciaran Roarty, Yvonne McLellan, Joshua McCormick, Fiona Clark, Ryan Paul Morrison, Sarah Anderson | 17,218 | 5.3 | +2.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Katy Gordon, Ashay Ghai, Aileen Morton, Ruby Kirkwood, John Mandby Watson, John William Duncan, Charity Elizabeth Pierce, Tristan Philip Pierre Gray | 12,097 | 3.8 | +0.5 | |
| UKIP | Sharon Marie McGonigal, Michael Burrows, Robert Malyn | 5,856 | 1.8 | +1.1 | |
| Solidarity | Gail Sheridan, Garry MacLachlan, Patricia Donald, Archibald Muir Thomson, Susan Thomson | 2,609 | 0.8 | +0.7 | |
| Scottish Christian | Brian Lally | 2,391 | 0.7 | -0.1 | |
| RISE | Colin Turbett, Sandra Webster, Kieran McCallum, Lindsay Brown | 1,522 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Scottish Libertarian | Alan Findlay | 484 | 0.2 | N/A | |
2011 Scottish Parliament election
In the 2011 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:
- 8 Scottish National Party MSPs (six constituency members and two additional members)
- 7 Labour MSPs (four constituency members and three additional members)
- 2 Conservative MSPs (both additional members)
Constituency results
| 2011 Scottish Parliament election: West Scotland | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Constituency | Elected member | Result | ||||
| Clydebank and Milngavie | Gil Paterson | SNP gain from Labour | ||||
| Cunninghame North | Kenneth Gibson | SNP hold | ||||
| Cunninghame South | Margaret Burgess | SNP gain from Labour | ||||
| Dumbarton | Jackie Baillie | Labour hold | ||||
| Eastwood | Ken Macintosh | Labour gain from Conservative | ||||
| Greenock and Inverclyde | Duncan McNeil | Labour hold | ||||
| Paisley | George Adam | SNP gain from Labour | ||||
| Renfrewshire North and West | Derek Mackay | SNP gain from Labour | ||||
| Renfrewshire South | Hugh Henry | Labour hold | ||||
| Strathkelvin and Bearsden | Fiona McLeod | SNP gain from Labour | ||||
Additional member results
| 2011 Scottish Parliament election: West Scotland | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Elected candidates | Seats | +/− | Votes | % | +/−% | |
| SNP | Stewart Maxwell Stuart McMillan |
2 | -2 | 117,306 | 41.5 | +13 | |
| Labour | Mary Fee Neil Bibby Margaret McDougall |
3 | +3 | 92,530 | 32.8 | -1.8 | |
| Conservative | Annabel Goldie Jackson Carlaw |
2 | ±0 | 35,995 | 12.7 | -2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | -1 | 9,148 | 3.2 | -4.9 | ||
| Scottish Green | 0 | 0 | 8,414 | 3.0 | ±0 | ||
| Scottish Senior Citizens | 0 | 0 | 4,771 | 1.7 | -0.3 | ||
| Socialist Labour | 0 | 0 | 2,865 | 1.0 | +0.4 | ||
| Scottish Christian | 0 | 0 | 2,468 | 0.9 | -0.5 | ||
| BNP | 0 | 0 | 2,162 | 0.8 | -0.5 | ||
| UKIP | 0 | 0 | 2,000 | 0.7 | +0.4 | ||
| Scottish Socialist | 0 | 0 | 1,752 | 0.6 | ±0 | ||
| Ban Bankers Bonuses | 0 | 0 | 1,204 | 0.4 | ±0 | ||
| Pirate | 0 | 0 | 850 | 0.3 | ±0 | ||
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 460 | 0.2 | ±0 | ||
| Solidarity | 0 | 0 | 446 | 0.2 | -1.8 | ||
Footnotes
- "Boundary Commission for Scotland - First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries".
- "2016 Scottish Parliamentary Elections". Inverclyde Council. Inverclyde Council. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
| Preceded by Mid Fife and Glenrothes |
Constituency or Region represented by the Presiding Officer 2016-present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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