Glasgow (Scottish Parliamentary Electoral Area)
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Glasgow is one of the eight electoral regions for elections to the Scottish Parliament from which 7 of the parliament's 56 Additional Members System (AMS) MSPs are elected.
The area it covers includes all of the City of Glasgow local authority area, as well as areas around Rutherglen in the South Lanarkshire local authority area.
The current seven MSPs elected through the AMS method to represent Glasgow are:
- Sandra White (Scottish National Party)
- Nicola Sturgeon (SNP)
- Tommy Sheridan (Scottish Socialist Party)
- Rosie Kane (SSP)
- Robert Brown (Lib Dems)
- Bill Aitken (Conservatives)
- Patrick Harvie (Scottish Green Party)
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Scottish Parliament Vote, 1999
| Political Party | Votes | Share of Vote (%) | % Change | List Seats Won |
| Labour | 112,588 | 43.9 | N/A | 0 |
| SNP | 65,360 | 25.5 | N/A | 4 |
| Conservatives | 20,239 | 7.9 | N/A | 1 |
| SSP | 18,581 | 7.2 | N/A | 1 |
| Lib Dems | 18,473 | 7.2 | N/A | 1 |
| Greens | 10,159 | 4.0 | N/A | 0 |
| SLP | 4,391 | 1.7 | N/A | 0 |
| Prolife Alliance | 2,357 | 0.9 | N/A | 0 |
| SUP | 2,283 | 0.9 | N/A | 0 |
| CPB | 521 | 0.2 | N/A | 0 |
| Humanist | 447 | 0.2 | N/A | 0 |
| NLP | 419 | 0.2 | N/A | 0 |
| SPGB | 309 | 0.1 | N/A | 0 |
| People's Choice | 221 | 0.1 | N/A | 0 |
MSPs Elected:
- SNP - Nicola Sturgeon, Dorothy-Grace Elder, Kenneth Gibson,Sandra White
- Conservative - Bill Aitken
- SSP - Tommy Sheridan
- Lib Dem - Robert Brown
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Scottish Parliament Vote, 2003
| Political Party | Votes | Share of Vote (%) | % Change | List Seats Won |
| Labour | 77,540 | 37.7 | -6.2 | 0 |
| SNP | 34,894 | 17.1 | -8.4 | 2 |
| SSP | 31,216 | 15.2 | +8.0 | 2 |
| Tory | 15,299 | 7.5 | -0.4 | 1 |
| Lib Dems | 14,839 | 7.3 | +0.1 | 1 |
| Greens | 14,570 | 7.1 | +3.1 | 1 |
| SSCUP | 4,750 | 2.3 | N/A | 0 |
| SLP | 3,091 | 1.5 | -0.2 | 0 |
| PLP | 2,477 | 1.2 | N/A | 0 |
| SUP | 2,349 | 1.1 | +0.2 | 0 |
| BNP | 2,344 | 1.1 | N/A | 0 |
| SPA | 612 | 0.3 | N/A | 0 |
| UKIP | 552 | 0.3 | N/A | 0 |
| CPB | 345 | 0.2 | - | 0 |
