Lothian (Scottish Parliament electoral region)
Lothian is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament. Nine 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 16 MSPs. The region is located in the eastern area of the Central Belt of the Scottish Lowlands and is anchored by capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh.
| Lothian | |
|---|---|
| electoral region for the Scottish Parliament | |
.svg.png.webp) Lothian shown within Scotland | |
| Council areas | City of Edinburgh East Lothian (part) Midlothian (part) West Lothian |
| Population | 786,439 (2019)[1] |
| Current electoral region | |
| Created | 2011 |
| MSPs | Scottish National Party 7 Conservative 3 Labour 3 Scottish Green 2 Liberal Democrats 1 |
| Constituencies | Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh |
The Lothian region was created as a result of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries and largely replaced the Lothians region.[2]
Constituencies and local government areas
As a result of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries the boundaries for the region and constituencies were redrawn for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.
| Constituency | |
|---|---|
Members of the Scottish Parliament
Constituency MSPs
Regional list MSPs
Elections take place on a whole-region basis: candidates shown in the same column have no particular relationship to each other.
| Parliament | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| as Lothians | ||||||||||||||
| 1st (1999–2003) |
Robin Harper (Green) |
Margo MacDonald (SNP) |
Fiona Hyslop (SNP) |
Kenny MacAskill (SNP) |
David Steel (Lib Dem) |
James Douglas-Hamilton (Conservative) |
David McLetchie (Conservative) | |||||||
| Margo MacDonald (Ind) | ||||||||||||||
| 2nd (2003–07) |
Margo MacDonald (Ind) |
Colin Fox (Socialist) |
Mark Ballard (Green) | |||||||||||
| 3rd (2007–11) |
Ian McKee (SNP) |
Stefan Tymkewycz (SNP) |
Gavin Brown (Conservative) |
George Foulkes (Labour) | ||||||||||
| Shirley-Anne Somerville (SNP) | ||||||||||||||
| as Lothian | ||||||||||||||
| 4th (2011–16) |
Alison Johnstone (Green) |
Margo MacDonald (Ind)[a] |
Kezia Dugdale (Labour)[b] |
Neil Findlay (Labour) |
Sarah Boyack (Labour) |
Gavin Brown (Conservative) |
David McLetchie (Conservative)[c] | |||||||
| Vacant (April 2014–May 2016) | Cameron Buchanan (Conservative)[c] | |||||||||||||
| 5th (2016–21) |
Andy Wightman (Green)[d] |
Gordon Lindhurst (Conservative) |
Miles Briggs (Conservative) |
Jeremy Balfour (Conservative) | ||||||||||
| Andy Wightman (Ind)[d] |
Sarah Boyack (Labour)[b] | |||||||||||||
| 6th (2021–) |
Lorna Slater (Green) |
Foysol Choudhury (Labour) |
Sue Webber (Conservative) | |||||||||||
- [a] As Margo MacDonald was elected as an Independent MSP, there was no mechanism to appoint a replacement; following her death, her seat remained vacant until the Scottish Parliament general election in May 2016.
- [b] Stood down 15 July 2019, replaced by Sarah Boyack.
- [c] Upon the death of David McLetchie, he was replaced by Cameron Buchanan as the next name on the Lothian regional list for the Scottish Conservatives.
- [d] Originally sat as a Scottish Green MSP until December 2020.
Election results
Constituency results
| 2021 Scottish Parliament election: Lothian | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Constituency | Elected member | Result | |
| Almond Valley | Angela Constance | SNP hold | |
| Edinburgh Central | Angus Robertson | SNP gain from Conservative | |
| Edinburgh Eastern | Ash Denham | SNP hold | |
| Edinburgh Northern and Leith | Ben Macpherson | SNP hold | |
| Edinburgh Pentlands | Gordon MacDonald | SNP hold | |
| Edinburgh Southern | Daniel Johnson | Labour hold | |
| Edinburgh Western | Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrats hold | |
| Linlithgow | Fiona Hyslop | SNP hold | |
| Midlothian North and Musselburgh | Colin Beattie | SNP hold | |
Additional member results
| 2021 Scottish Parliament election: Lothian[4] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ± | |
| SNP | Graham Campbell, Angus Robertson, Fiona Hyslop, Ben Macpherson, Catriona MacDonald, Sarah Masson, Greg McCarra, Alison Dickie, Alex Orr, Douglas Thomson, Andrew Ewen, Rob Connell | 141,478 | 35.9 |  0.3 | |
| Conservative | Miles Briggs, Sue Webber, Jeremy Balfour, Rebecca Fraser, Malcolm Offord, Scott Douglas, Gordon Lindhurst, Marie-Clair Munro, Graham Hutchison, Iain Whyte, Callum Laidlaw, Charles Kennedy, Damian Timson | 78,595 | 19.9 | 3.0 | |
| Labour | Daniel Johnson, Sarah Boyack, Foysol Choudhury, Maddy Kirkman, Nick Ward, Kirsteen Sullivan, Frederick Hessler, Stephen Curran | 76,689 | 19.4 | 1.4 | |
| Scottish Green | Alison Johnstone, Lorna Slater, Kate Nevens, Chas Booth, Steve Burgess, Alys Mumford, Emily Frood, Ben Parker, Elaine Taylor, Bill Wilson, Evelyn Weston, Alex Staniforth | 49,984 | 12.7 |  2.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alex Cole-Hamilton, Fred Mackintosh, Jill Reilly, Rebecca Bell, Sally Pattie, Fraser Graham, Caron Lindsay, Bruce Wilson, Charles Dundas | 28,433 | 7.2 | 1.6 | |
| Alba | Kenny MacAskill, Alex Arthur, Christina Hendry, Irshad Ahmed | 6,141 | 1.6 | 1.6 | |
| All for Unity | Charlotte Morley, Parvinder Singh, Alan Hogg, Andy Macaulay, David Hamilton, Mike Knox | 2,423 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
| Animal Welfare | Vivienne Moir, Gavin Ridley | 2,392 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
| Scottish Family Party | Richard Lucas, Philip Holden, Norman Colville, Gareth Kirk, Amy Ireland | 2,041 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
| Women's Equality | Emma Watt, David Renton, Lucy Hammond | 1,124 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
| Freedom Alliance | Jon Pullman, Cara Wase, Patricia McCann | 922 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
| Abolish the Scottish Parliament | John Leckie, David Nichol | 828 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
| Reform UK | Derek Winton, Mev Brown, Iain Morse, Lesley MacDonald | 810 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
| Libertarian | Tam Laird, Cameron Paterson | 689 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
| Communist | Matthew Waddell | 598 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
| Independent | Ashley Graczyk | 430 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| UKIP | Donald Mackay, John Mumford, Steve Hollis, Kenneth Lowry | 420 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
| SDP | Alasdair Young, Neil Manson, Lawrence Edwards | 227 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| Renew | Heather Astbury, Anna Freemantle-Zee | 102 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
2016 Scottish Parliament election
In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:
- 6 Scottish National Party MSPs (all constituency members)
- 4 Conservative MSPs (one constituency member and three additional members)
- 3 Labour MSPs (one constituency member and two additional members)
- 2 Green MSPs (both additional members)
- 1 Liberal Democrats MSP (constituency member)
Constituency results
| 2016 Scottish Parliament election: Lothian | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Constituency | Elected member | Result | |
| Almond Valley | Angela Constance | SNP hold | |
| Edinburgh Central | Ruth Davidson | Conservative gain from SNP | |
| Edinburgh Eastern | Ash Denham | SNP hold | |
| Edinburgh Northern and Leith | Ben Macpherson | SNP gain from Labour | |
| Edinburgh Pentlands | Gordon MacDonald | SNP hold | |
| Edinburgh Southern | Daniel Johnson | Labour gain from SNP | |
| Edinburgh Western | Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrats gain from SNP | |
| Linlithgow | Fiona Hyslop | SNP hold | |
| Midlothian North and Musselburgh | Colin Beattie | SNP hold | |
Additional member results
| 2016 Scottish Parliament election: Lothians | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Elected candidates | Seats | +/− | Votes | % | +/−% | |
| SNP | 0 | ±0 | 118,546 | 36.2% | -2.9% | ||
| Conservative | Miles Briggs Gordon Lindhurst Jeremy Balfour |
3 | +1 | 74,972 | 22.9% | +11.3% | |
| Labour | Kezia Dugdale Neil Findlay |
2 | -1 | 67,991 | 20.8% | -4.1% | |
| Scottish Green | Alison Johnstone Andy Wightman |
2 | +1 | 34,551 | 10.6% | +3.0% | |
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | ±0 | 18,479 | 5.6% | +0.1% | ||
| UKIP | 0 | ±0 | 5,802 | 1.8% | +1.2% | ||
| Women's Equality | 0 | ±0 | 3,877 | 1.2% | +1.2% | ||
| RISE | 0 | ±0 | 1,641 | 0.5% | +0.5% | ||
| Solidarity | 0 | ±0 | 1,319 | 0.4% | +0.3% | ||
2011 Scottish Parliament election
In the 2011 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:
- 8 Scottish National Party MSPs (eight constituency members)
- 4 Labour MSPs (one constituency members and three additional member)
- 2 Conservative MSPs (two additional members)
- 1 Scottish Greens MSP (additional member)
- 1 Independent MSP (additional member)
Constituency results
| 2011 Scottish Parliament election: Lothian | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Constituency | Elected member | Result | |
| Almond Valley | Angela Constance | SNP hold | |
| Edinburgh Central | Marco Biagi | SNP gain from Labour | |
| Edinburgh Eastern | Kenny MacAskill | SNP gain from Labour | |
| Edinburgh Northern and Leith | Malcolm Chisholm | Labour hold | |
| Edinburgh Pentlands | Gordon MacDonald | SNP gain from Conservative | |
| Edinburgh Southern | Jim Eadie | SNP gain from Liberal Democrats | |
| Edinburgh Western | Colin Keir | SNP gain from Liberal Democrats | |
| Linlithgow | Fiona Hyslop | SNP gain from Labour | |
| Midlothian North and Musselburgh | Colin Beattie | SNP gain from Labour | |
Additional member results
| 2011 Scottish Parliament election: Lothians | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Elected candidates | Seats | +/− | Votes | % | +/−% | |
| SNP | 0 | -3 | 110,953 | 39.2 | +12.7 | ||
| Labour | Sarah Boyack Kezia Dugdale Neil Findlay |
3 | +2 | 70,544 | 24.9 | -1.3 | |
| Conservative | David McLetchie Gavin Brown |
2 | +1 | 33,019 | 11.7 | -1.5 | |
| Scottish Green | Alison Johnstone | 1 | ±0 | 21,505 | 7.6 | +0.5 | |
| Independent | Margo MacDonald | 1 | ±0 | 18,732 | 6.6 | ±0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | 15,588 | 5.5 | -7.3 | |||
| Scottish Senior Citizens | 0 | ±0 | 3,218 | 1.1 | -0.3 | ||
| BNP | 0 | ±0 | 1,978 | 0.7 | -0.2 | ||
| UKIP | 0 | ±0 | 1,822 | 0.6 | +0.4 | ||
| Socialist Labour | 0 | ±0 | 1,681 | 0.6 | -0.2 | ||
| Scottish Socialist | 0 | ±0 | 1,183 | 0.4 | -0.3 | ||
| Scottish Christian | 0 | ±0 | 914 | 0.3 | -0.4 | ||
| Liberal | 0 | ±0 | 697 | 0.2 | ±0 | ||
| CPA | 0 | ±0 | 553 | 0.2 | -0.1 | ||
| Solidarity | 0 | ±0 | 327 | 0.1 | -0.9 | ||
| Independent | 0 | ±0 | 294 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
| Independent | 0 | ±0 | 134 | 0.0 | N/A | ||
| Independent | 0 | ±0 | 61 | 0.0 | N/A | ||
Footnotes
- Scottish Parliamentary Constituency (SPC) Population Estimates (2011 Data Zone based), National Records of Scotland; retrieved 6 May 2021 (accompanying summary notes)
- "First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries". Boundary Commission for Scotland. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- "Statement of Persons and Parties Nominated and Notice of Poll". City of Edinburgh Council. 6 May 2021.
- Lothian [region], BBC News; retrieved 8 May 2021
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