Paisley (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Paisley (UK Parliament constituency).

Paisley
County constituency for the Scottish Parliament
Paisley shown within the West Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	George Adam
Council area	Renfrewshire

Paisley is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Constituency boundaries and council area

Renfrewshire is represented in the Scottish Parliament by three constituencies: Paisley, Renfrewshire North and West and Renfrewshire South.

The electoral wards of the Paisley constituency are:

• In full: Paisley Northeast and Ralston, Paisley East and Central, Paisley Southeast, Paisley Southwest
• In part: Paisley North West (shared with Renfrewshire North and West)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" |	2011	George Adam	SNP
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" |	2016

Election results

2016 Scottish Parliament election: Paisley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	George Adam	14,682	49.8	+7.2
	Labour	Neil Bibby	9,483	32.2	−9.5
	Conservative	Paul Masterton	3,533	12.0	+3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Eileen McCartin	1,766	6.0	−1.0
Majority			5,199	17.6	+16.7
Turnout			29,464	57.0	+7.9
	SNP hold		Swing

2011 Scottish Parliament election: Paisley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	George Adam	10,913	42.6	N/A
	Labour	Ewan Williams	10,665	41.7	N/A
	Conservative	Gordon McCaskill	2,229	8.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Eileen McCartin	1,783	7.0	N/A
Majority			248	0.9	N/A
Turnout			25,590	49.1	N/A
	SNP win (new seat)

Electoral region

See also: West Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

The other nine constituencies of the West Scotland region are Clydebank and Milngavie, Cunninghame North, Cunninghame South, Dumbarton, Eastwood, Greenock and Inverclyde, Renfrewshire North and West, Renfrewshire South and Strathkelvin and Bearsden.

The region covers part of the Argyll and Bute council area, the East Dunbartonshire council area, the East Renfrewshire council area, the Inverclyde council area, North Ayrshire council area, the Renfrewshire council area and the West Dunbartonshire council area.