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The Scottish Parliament (), created by the Scotland Act 1998, has used a system of constituencies and electoral regions since the first general election in 1999.. The parliament has 73 constituencies, each electing one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first-past-the-post) system of voting, and eight additional member regions, each electing seven additional MSPs.
For the purposes of the review the Boundary Commission for Scotland must take into account the boundaries of the local government council areas. In order to do this some council areas were grouped together, the largest of these groupings of provisional proposals consisted of four of Scotland's 32 council areas the smallest only containing one.
Various council areas are divided between two Holyrood electoral regions. One council area, the South Lanarkshire council area , was divided between three different electoral regions. The Arbuthnott Commission , in its final report, January 2006, recommended that council area boundaries and Holyrood and Westminster constituency boundaries ...
The 8 regions are: [8] Glasgow; Lothian; Central Scotland; South Scotland; Highlands and Islands; Mid-Scotland and Fife; West Scotland; North East Scotland; All together, every area of Scotland has 8 MSPs (1 constituency and 7 regional). A voter is given two ballot papers, one peach coloured and the other lilac.
In 1999, a Scotland-wide constituency replaced eight first-past-the-post constituencies used in the elections between 1979 and 1994. This returned eight MEPs under the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation system. Since then the number of MEPs returned by Scotland has been reduced twice, to seven in 2004, and then to six in 2009.
Lists of regions of Scotland: In the political geography of Scotland, there are various ways in which Scotland has historically been subdivided into regions and districts for various governmental purposes over time. These include: Local government areas of Scotland 1973 to 1996—former system of regions and districts.
Scotland portal; Politics portal; Of the 129 MSPs elected to the Scottish Parliament, 73 are elected to represent first past the post constituencies, whilst the remaining 56 are elected by the additional member system. These 56 are elected in eight different electoral regions, of which constituencies are sub-divisions.
These 56 are elected in eight different electoral regions, of which constituencies are sub-divisions. (They correspond also to former European Parliament constituencies in Scotland.) Each region returns seven additional member MSPs.