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2021 Scottish Parliament election: Lothian regional list Party Elected candidates Seats +/− Votes % +/−% SNP: 0 141,478 35.9 0.3 Conservative: Miles Briggs Sue Webber Jeremy Balfour: 3 78,595 19.9 3.0 Labour: Sarah Boyack Foysol Choudhury: 2 76,689 19.4 1.4 Scottish Green: Alison Johnstone Lorna Slater: 2 49,984 12.7 2.1 Liberal Democrats ...
"Scottish Parliament Elections: 2021" (PDF). House of Commons Library. 20 May 2021 "Full votes and seats by party etc - SPE21". Electoral Management Board for Scotland. 9 May 2021 "Scottish Parliament election 2021 - National results". BBC News
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) .
East Lothian (/ ˈ l oʊ ð i ə n /; Scots: Aest Lowden; Scottish Gaelic: Lodainn an Ear) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering most of the council area of East Lothian. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election.
He was a member of East Lothian Council, representing the Haddington and Lammermuir ward, [8] having been elected in a by-election in 2019. [5] Hoy contested the East Lothian seat in the 2019 United Kingdom general election, where he finished third. [9] Hoy stood in East Lothian at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, coming third. [10]
Map of the area's single-member wards with the results of the 2003 East Lothian Council election, the last to use that system. Since 2007 elections have been held every five years under the single transferable vote system, introduced by the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004. Election results since 1995 have been as follows: [2]
It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It is one of nine constituencies in the Lothian electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
East Lothian from 2005–2024. The constituency was created for the 1983 general election.Until the SNP landslide victory in 2015, the seat had been continuously represented by MPs from the Labour Party since the constituency's creation 32 years earlier.