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The turnout was 63.5%, which is the highest ever at a Scottish Parliament election. Following the election, the third Sturgeon government was formed. It initially consisted of just the SNP, but later included Slater and Harvie of the Scottish Greens as junior ministers after the two parties negotiated a power-sharing agreement .
Registered voters/Turnout 4,280,785 63.46 7.66 ... It was the first time in 13 years that the elections had not been held on the same day as the Scottish Parliament ...
The Conservative Party lost one seat, taking their total down to five. Turnout dropped to 59%, eclipsed for the first time by a preceding Scottish Parliament election (63.5%). This was a reduction in turnout of 8.4% from 2019 and in a few constituencies the turnout was down 10%.
"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
The Scottish Parliament (Scottish Gaelic: ... As the turnout was only 63.6%, the vote in favour represented only 32.9% of the eligible voting population, and the ...
The Scottish Parliament was created after a referendum on devolution took place on 11 September 1997 in which 74.3% of those who voted approved the idea. The Scotland Act (1998) was then passed by the UK Parliament which established the devolved Scottish Parliament and Scottish Executive.
It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Glasgow 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.
Since 2005, the Scottish National Party had come first in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election as well as the 2009 European Parliament election.In Westminster, however, it was a different story: although in 2008 the party won the Glasgow East by-election, in what was one of the safest Labour seats in the UK, by the time of the 2010 UK general election and even with an increase of 2.3% in the ...