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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.
All wards in Scotland are multi-member wards, meaning there are multiple councillors per area. Under this system, voters must number their candidates by preference. First-preference votes are counted and the candidates with the least get eliminated, so the first-preference votes for the candidates get ignored and their second preferences get ...
West of Scotland 2 / West Scotland 2 (2011) Ullrich: Martin: McMillan: Macintosh: Clark: West of Scotland 3 / West Scotland 3 (2011) Quinan: McFee: W. Wilson: Fee: O'Kane: West of Scotland 4 / West Scotland 4 (2011) McLeod: F. Curran: Paterson: Bibby: West of Scotland 5 / West Scotland 5 (2011) R. Finnie: McDougall: Greene: West of Scotland 6 ...
Ballot paper used for the elections in the Victoria Park ward of the Glasgow City Council. Councillors are elected to represent multi-member wards using the Single Transferable Vote (STV) method, which has been used for all elections to local authorities in Scotland since the 2007 election. Previous to this election, in all votes since 2007 ...
It is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife 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. The seat has been held by Jim Fairlie of the Scottish National Party since the 2021 Scottish Parliament ...
The City of Glasgow is divided into a number of wards. [3] These electoral districts, as they are also known, are used to elect councillors to Glasgow City Council.The council, composed of the elected members from each ward, provides local government services to the City of Glasgow.
All five are within the Central Scotland electoral region. The electoral wards used in the creation of Motherwell and Wishaw are listed below. All of these wards are part of North Lanarkshire. [3] In full: Motherwell West; Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig; Murdostoun; Wishaw; In part: Motherwell North (shared with Uddingston and Bellshill)
the majority of Partick East/Kelvindale ward - mostly to the south of the A82 Great Western Road. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was formed primarily from the abolished Glasgow North West constituency , excluding the part transferred to West Dunbartonshire, with the addition of the Partick and Hyndland districts from Glasgow North .