SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT ELECTION STATISTICS
TOTAL SEATS WON							VOTES RECEIVED- CONSTITUENCIES
	6 May 1997	1 May 2003	3 May 2007	5 May 2011	5 May 2016			6 May 1999		1 May 2003		3 May 2007		5 May 2011		5 May 2016
Labour	56	50	46	37	24			number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Scottish National Party	35	27	47	69	63		Labour	908,346	38.78%	663,585	34.63%	648,396	32.15%	630,461	31.69%	514,261	22.56%
Conservative	18	18	17	15	31		Scottish National Party	672,768	28.72%	455,742	23.78%	664,227	32.93%	902,915	45.39%	1,059,898	46.50%
Liberal Democrat	17	17	16	5	5		Conservative	364,425	15.56%	318,279	16.61%	334,743	16.60%	276,652	13.91%	501,844	22.02%
Green	1	7	2	2	6		Liberal Democrat	333,179	14.22%	294,347	15.36%	326,232	16.17%	157,714	7.93%	178,238	7.82%
Scottish Socialist	1	6	0	0	0		Green	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	2,971	0.15%	0	0.00%	13,172	0.58%
Scottish Senior Citizens Unity	0	1	0	0	0		RISE									0	0.00%
Independent	1	3	1	1	0		Scottish Socialist	23,654	1.01%	118,764	6.20%	525	0.03%	0	0.00%	}
Total	129	129	129	129	129		Solidarity					0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%
							Scottish Senior Citizens Unity	0	0.00%	1,597	0.08%	1,702	0.08%	}
							All Scotland Pensioners Party							1,618	0.08%		0.00%
							Pensioners' Party	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	}
							Socialist Labour	5,268	0.22%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%		0.00%
							Scottish Christian Party					4,586	0.23%	1,193	0.06%	1,162	0.05%
CONSTITUENCY SEATS WON							UK Independence Party	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	2,508	0.13%		0.00%
	6 May 1997	1 May 2003	3 May 2007	5 May 2011	5 May 2016		British National Party	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%		0.00%
							Independent (D.Canavan)	18,511	0.79%	14,703	0.77%	0	0.00%				0.00%
Labour	53	46	37	15	3		Independent (M. MacDonald)	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%		0.00%
Scottish National Party	7	9	21	53	59		Independent ( J. Turner)	0	0.00%	10,988	0.57%	6,742	0.33%				0.00%
Conservative	0	3	4	3	7		Other	16,337	0.70%	38,187	1.99%	26,876	1.33%	16,215	0.82%	10,579	0.46%
Liberal Democrat	12	13	11	2	4		Total Valid Votes	2,342,488	100.00%	1,916,192	100.00%	2,017,000	100.00%	1,989,276	100.00%	2,279,154	100.00%
Green	0	0	0	0	0		Spoilt Papers	7,839	0.33%	12,303	0.64%	85,631	4.07%	6,363	0.32%	9,215	0.40%
Scottish Socialist	0	0	0	0	0		Total Ballots Cast	2,350,327		1,928,495		2,102,631		1,995,369		2,288,369
Scottish Senior Citizens Unity	0	0	0	0	0		Electorate & Turnout	4,027,433	58.16%	3,877,638	49.42%	3,899,472	51.72%	3,950,626	50.35%	4,099,907	55.59%
Independent	1	2	0	0	0
Total	73	73	73	73	73		VOTES RECEIVED- REGIONAL LISTS
								6 May 1999		1 May 2003		3 May 2007		5 May 2011		5 May 2016
								number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
							Labour	786,818	33.64%	561,375	29.30%	595,415	29.15%	523,469	26.31%	435,919	19.07%
REGIONAL LIST SEATS WON							Scottish National Party	638,644	27.31%	399,659	20.86%	633,611	31.02%	876,421	44.04%	953,587	41.72%
	6 May 1997	1 May 2003	3 May 2007	5 May 2011	5 May 2016		Conservative	359,109	15.35%	296,929	15.50%	284,035	13.90%	245,967	12.36%	524,222	22.93%
							Liberal Democrat	290,760	12.43%	225,774	11.78%	230,651	11.29%	103,472	5.20%	119,284	5.22%
Labour	3	4	9	22	21		Green	84,023	3.59%	132,138	6.90%	82,577	4.04%	86,939	4.38%	150,426	6.58%
Scottish National Party	28	18	26	16	4		RISE									10,911	0.48%
Conservative	18	15	13	12	24		Scottish Socialist	46,635	1.99%	128,026	6.68%	13,096	0.64%	8,272	0.42%	}
Liberal Democrat	5	4	5	3	1		Solidarity				0.00%	31,096	1.52%	2,837	0.14%	14,333	0.63%
Green	1	7	2	2	6		Scottish Senior Citizens Unity	0	0.00%	28,996	1.51%	39,038	1.91%	}			0.00%
Scottish Socialist	1	6	0	0	0		All Scotland Pensioners Party							33,253	1.67%		0.00%
Scottish Senior Citizens Unity	0	1	0	0	0		Pensioners' Party	0	0.00%	28,655	1.50%	0	0.00%	}			0.00%
Independent	0	1	1	1	0		Socialist Labour	55,232	2.36%	21,657	1.13%	14,054	0.69%	16,847	0.85%		0.00%
Total	56	56	56	56	56		Scottish Christian Party					26,575	1.30%	16,466	0.83%	11,686	0.51%
							UK Independence Party	0	0.00%	11,969	0.62%	8,197	0.40%	18,138	0.91%	46,426	2.03%
							British National Party	0	0.00%	2,344	0.12%	24,598	1.20%	15,580	0.78%		0.00%
							Independent (D.Canavan)	27,700	1.18%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%				0.00%
							Independent (M. MacDonald)	0	0.00%	27,143	1.42%	19,256	0.94%	18,732	0.94%		0.00%
INDEPENDENTS ELECTED							Independent ( J. Turner)	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%				0.00%
1999- Denis Canavan (Falkirk West)							Other	49,993	2.14%	51,186	2.67%	40,605	1.99%	24,443	1.17%	18,958	0.83%
2003-Denis Canavan(Falkirk West), Jean Turner (Strathkelvin & Bearsden), Margo MacDonald (Lothian Region list)							Total Valid Votes	2,338,914	100.00%	1,915,851	100.00%	2,042,804	100.00%	1,990,836	100.00%	2,285,752	100.00%
							Spoilt Papers	7,268	0.31%	11,938	0.62%	62,038	2.95%	5,987	0.30%	3,812	0.17%
2007- Margo MacDonald (Lothian Region list)							Total Ballots Cast	2,346,182		1,927,789		2,104,842		1,996,823		2,289,564
2011- Margo MacDonald (Lothian Region list)							Electorate & Turnout	4,027,433	58.07%	3,877,599	49.42%	3,899,472	52.37%	3,950,626	50.39%	4,099,907	55.75%
2015- none							The constituency and regional list electorate for 2003 differs due to discrepancies in Banff & Buchan, Western Isles and the 3 Aberdeen constituencies
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