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The 2011 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2011 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament. The election delivered the first majority government since the opening of Holyrood, a remarkable feat as the Additional Member System used to elect MSPs was allegedly originally implemented to prevent any party achieving an ...
As a result of the first periodical review of Scottish Parliament constituencies, [1] new constituencies and additional member regions of the Scottish Parliament were introduced for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election. The D'Hondt method is used, as previously, in the allocation of additional member seats.
The elections were held again using the STV system of proportional representation, and as with the 2012 Scottish local elections, they were delayed for one year to ensure they were not held on the same day as the 2016 Scottish Parliament elections (which was delayed for a year, owing to the 2015 general election).
The constituencies and regions were first used in 1999, for the first election of the Scottish Parliament, and were used also for the 2003 and 2007 elections. The First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries [ 1 ] [ 2 ] by the Boundary Commission for Scotland was started in 2007, and the Commission reported to the Secretary of State ...
5 May – Elections are held for the Scottish Parliament together with the referendum on whether to adopt the Alternative Vote electoral system for elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. [20] 6 May – The Scottish National Party secures an historic landslide election victory, winning an overall majority in the Scottish ...
This is a list of members (MSPs) returned to the fourth Scottish Parliament at the 2011 general election.Of the 129 MSPs, 73 were elected from first past the post constituencies with a further 56 members being returned from eight regions, each electing seven MSPs as a form of mixed member proportional representation.
The 2011 Scottish Conservatives leadership election was an internal party election to choose a new leader of the Scottish Conservatives, who at the time were the third-largest political party in the devolved Scottish Parliament. Ruth Davidson was declared the winner of the contest on 4 November 2011 and succeeded Annabel Goldie.
The 2011 United Kingdom elections may refer to one of six elections in the United Kingdom that took place on 5 May 2011: 2011 United Kingdom local elections; 2011 Scottish Parliament election; 2011 National Assembly for Wales election; 2011 Northern Ireland Assembly election; 2011 Leicester South by-election; 2011 United Kingdom Alternative ...