Lothian (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

Not to be confused with East Lothian (Scottish Parliament constituency).

Lothian
electoral region for the Scottish Parliament
Lothian shown within Scotland
Current electoral region
Created	2011
MSPs	Scottish National Party 6 Conservative 4 Labour 3 Scottish Green 2 Liberal Democrats 1
Council areas	City of Edinburgh East Lothian (part) Midlothian (part) West Lothian
Constituencies	Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh

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 Lothian region was created as a result of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries and largely replaced the Lothians region.

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
	Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh

Members of the Scottish Parliament

Constituency MSPs

as Lothians
Term	Election	Midlothian		Edinburgh East and Musselburgh		Edinburgh Central		Edinburgh North and Leith		Edinburgh Pentlands		Edinburgh South		Edinburgh West		Linlithgow		Livingston
1st	1999	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="3" |	Rhona Brankin (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="2" |	Susan Deacon (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="3" |	Sarah Boyack (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="3" |	Malcolm Chisholm (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="1" |	Iain Gray (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="1" |	Angus MacKay (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" rowspan="3" |	Margaret Smith (LD)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="3" |	Mary Mulligan (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="2" |	Bristow Muldoon (Labour)
2nd	2003	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="2" |		David McLetchie (Conservative)		bgcolor="Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" rowspan="2" |		Mike Pringle (LD)
3rd	2007	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|			Kenny MacAskill (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|				Angela Constance (SNP)
as Lothian
Term	Election	Midlothian North and Musselburgh		Edinburgh Eastern		Edinburgh Central		Edinburgh Northern and Leith		Edinburgh Pentlands		Edinburgh Southern		Edinburgh Western		Linlithgow		Almond Valley
4th	2011	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	Colin Beattie (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	Kenny MacAskill (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Marco Biagi (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Malcolm Chisholm (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	Gordon MacDonald (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Jim Eadie (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" |	Colin Keir (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	Fiona Hyslop (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	Angela Constance (SNP)
5th	2016	Ash Denham (SNP)		bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color"|	Ruth Davidson (Conservative)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Ben Macpherson (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Daniel Johnson (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" |		Alex Cole-Hamilton (Lib Dem)

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)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Green Party/meta/color" rowspan="5"|	Robin Harper (Green)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="1"|	Margo MacDonald (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="5"|	Fiona Hyslop (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="5"|	Kenny MacAskill (SNP)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	David Steel (Lib Dem)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="5"|	James Douglas-Hamilton (Conservative)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	David McLetchie (Conservative)
	bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" rowspan="1"|
2nd (2003–07)	bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" rowspan="3"|		Margo MacDonald (Ind)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Socialist Party/meta/color" rowspan="1"|	Colin Fox (Socialist)		bgcolor="Template:Scottish Green Party/meta/color" rowspan="1"|		Mark Ballard (Green)
3rd (2007–11)	Ian McKee (SNP)			bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	Stefan Tymkewycz (SNP)		Gavin Brown (Conservative)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	George Foulkes (Labour)
				Shirley-Anne Somerville (SNP)
as Lothian
4th (2011–16)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Green Party/meta/color" rowspan="3"|	Alison Johnstone (Green)	bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" rowspan="1"|	Margo MacDonald * (Ind)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="3"|	Kezia Dugdale (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="3"|	Neil Findlay (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"|	Sarah Boyack (Labour)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="3"|	Gavin Brown (Conservative)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="3"|	David McLetchie * (Conservative)
	vacant		Cameron Buchanan (Conservative)
5th (2016–21)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Green Party/meta/color"|	Andy Wightman (Green)	bgcolor="Template:Scottish Conservative Party/meta/color"|	Gordon Lindhurst (Conservative)	Miles Briggs (Conservative)		Jeremy Balfour (Conservative)

• 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. 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.

Election results

Scottish Parliament election 2016

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 Scottish Green Party MSP (both additional members)
• 1 Liberal Democrats MSP (constituency member)

Constituency results

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| style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Almond Valley | style="text-align:left;" | Angela Constance | style="width: 130px" | SNP hold |-

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| style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 2px;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Edinburgh Central | style="text-align:left;" | Ruth Davidson | style="width: 130px" | Conservative gain from SNP |-

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| style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Edinburgh Eastern | style="text-align:left;" | Ash Denham | style="width: 130px" | SNP hold |-

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| style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Edinburgh Northern and Leith | style="text-align:left;" | Ben Macpherson | style="width: 130px" | SNP gain from Labour |-

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| style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Edinburgh Pentlands | style="text-align:left;" | Gordon MacDonald | style="width: 130px" | SNP hold |-

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| style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 2px;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Edinburgh Southern | style="text-align:left;" | Daniel Johnson | style="width: 130px" | Labour gain from SNP |-

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| style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 2px;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Edinburgh Western | style="text-align:left;" | Alex Cole-Hamilton | style="width: 130px" | Liberal Democrats gain from SNP |-

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| style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Linlithgow | style="text-align:left;" | Fiona Hyslop | style="width: 130px" | SNP hold |-

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| style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Midlothian North and Musselburgh | style="text-align:left;" | Colin Beattie | style="width: 130px" | SNP hold |-

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Additional member results

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | SNP | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 118,546 | style="text-align:right;" | 36.2% | style="text-align:right;" | -2.9% |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Conservative | style="text-align:left;" | Miles Briggs
Gordon Lindhurst
Jeremy Balfour | style="text-align:center;" | 3 | style="text-align:center;" | +1 | style="text-align:right;" | 74,972 | style="text-align:right;" | 22.9% | style="text-align:right;" | +11.3% |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Labour | style="text-align:left;" | Kezia Dugdale
Neil Findlay | style="text-align:center;" | 2 | style="text-align:center;" | -1 | style="text-align:right;" | 67,991 | style="text-align:right;" | 20.8% | style="text-align:right;" | -4.1% |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #00B140; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Green | style="text-align:left;" | Alison Johnstone
Andy Wightman | style="text-align:center;" | 2 | style="text-align:center;" | +1 | style="text-align:right;" | 34,551 | style="text-align:right;" | 10.6% | style="text-align:right;" | +3.0% |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Liberal Democrats | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 18,479 | style="text-align:right;" | 5.6% | style="text-align:right;" | +0.1% |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #6D3177; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | UKIP | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 5,802 | style="text-align:right;" | 1.8% | style="text-align:right;" | +1.2% |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #432360; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Women's Equality | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 3,877 | style="text-align:right;" | 1.2% | style="text-align:right;" | +1.2% |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #f15723; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | RISE | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 1,641 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.5% | style="text-align:right;" | +0.5% |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #a22f32; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Solidarity | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 1,319 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.4% | style="text-align:right;" | +0.3% |-

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Scottish Parliament election 2011

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 Green Party MSP (additional member)
• 1 Independent MSP (additional member)

Constituency results

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| style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Almond Valley | style="text-align:left;" | Angela Constance | style="width: 130px" | SNP hold |-

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| style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Edinburgh Central | style="text-align:left;" | Marco Biagi | style="width: 130px" | SNP gain from Labour |-

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| style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Edinburgh Eastern | style="text-align:left;" | Kenny MacAskill | style="width: 130px" | SNP gain from Labour |-

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| style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Edinburgh Northern and Leith | style="text-align:left;" | Malcolm Chisholm | style="width: 130px" | Labour hold |-

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| style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Edinburgh Pentlands | style="text-align:left;" | Gordon MacDonald | style="width: 130px" | SNP gain from Conservative |-

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| style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Edinburgh Southern | style="text-align:left;" | Jim Eadie | style="width: 130px" | SNP gain from Liberal Democrats |-

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| style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Edinburgh Western | style="text-align:left;" | Colin Keir | style="width: 130px" | SNP gain from Liberal Democrats |-

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| style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Linlithgow | style="text-align:left;" | Fiona Hyslop | style="width: 130px" | SNP gain from Labour |-

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| style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="text-align:left;" | Midlothian North and Musselburgh | style="text-align:left;" | Colin Beattie | style="width: 130px" | SNP gain from Labour |-

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Additional member results

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | SNP | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | -3 | style="text-align:right;" | 110,953 | style="text-align:right;" | 39.2% | style="text-align:right;" | +12.7 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Labour | style="text-align:left;" | Sarah Boyack
Kezia Dugdale
Neil Findlay | style="text-align:center;" | 3 | style="text-align:center;" | +2 | style="text-align:right;" | 70,544 | style="text-align:right;" | 24.9% | style="text-align:right;" | -1.3 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Conservative | style="text-align:left;" | David McLetchie
Gavin Brown | style="text-align:center;" | 2 | style="text-align:center;" | +1 | style="text-align:right;" | 33,019 | style="text-align:right;" | 11.7% | style="text-align:right;" | -1.5 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #00B140; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Green | style="text-align:left;" | Alison Johnstone | style="text-align:center;" | 1 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 21,505 | style="text-align:right;" | 7.6% | style="text-align:right;" | +0.5 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Independent | style="text-align:left;" | Margo MacDonald | style="text-align:center;" | 1 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 18,732 | style="text-align:right;" | 6.6% | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Liberal Democrats | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 15,588 | style="text-align:right;" | 5.5% | style="text-align:right;" | -7.3 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #CC66CC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Senior Citizens | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 3,218 | style="text-align:right;" | 1.1% | style="text-align:right;" | -0.3 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #2e3b74; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | BNP | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 1,978 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.7% | style="text-align:right;" | -0.2 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #6D3177; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | UKIP | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 1,822 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.6% | style="text-align:right;" | +0.4 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #EE1C25; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Socialist Labour | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 1,681 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.6% | style="text-align:right;" | -0.2 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #ff0000; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Socialist | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 1,183 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.4% | style="text-align:right;" | -0.3 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #9966CC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Scottish Christian | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 914 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.3% | style="text-align:right;" | -0.4 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #EB7A43; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Liberal | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 697 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.2% | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #813887; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | CPA | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 553 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.2% | style="text-align:right;" | -0.1 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #a22f32; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Solidarity | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 327 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.1% | style="text-align:right;" | -0.9 |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Independent | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 294 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.1% | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Independent | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 134 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.0% | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

|- | style="color:inherit;background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 2px;" | | style="width: 130px; text-align:left;" | Independent | style="text-align:left;" | | style="text-align:center;" | 0 | style="text-align:center;" | ±0 | style="text-align:right;" | 61 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.0% | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |-

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