Annabelle Janet Ewing is a Scottish politician and lawyer who has served as Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament,alongside Liam McArthur,since May 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Cowdenbeath constituency since 2016,having previously been an MSP for the Mid Scotland and Fife region from 2011 to 2016.
Brian James Adam was a Scottish politician and biochemist.
James Robert Wallace,Baron Wallace of Tankerness,,FRSE is a Scottish politician serving as a Non-Affiliated life peer in the British House of Lords since 2007. He served as the Deputy First Minister of Scotland from 1999 to 2005,having served twice as acting First Minister,in 2000,in the aftermath of Donald Dewar's death and in 2001,following Henry McLeish's resignation. He was formerly Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 1992 to 2005 and Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords from 2013 to 2016.
Christine Grahame is a Scottish politician who served as a Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2016 to 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Midlothian South,Tweeddale and Lauderdale constituency since 2011,having previously represented the South of Scotland region from 1999 to 2011.
Richard Neilson Lochhead is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who is Minister for Just Transition,Employment and Fair Work and has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Moray since 2006. He was previously an MSP for North East Scotland 1999–2006 and served as the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs,Food and Environment from 2007 to 2016,and the Minister for Further Education,Higher Education and Science from 2018 to 2021.
Michael Stephen Matheson is a Scottish politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero,Energy and Transport[n 1]since 2018. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),he has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 1999,first representing the Central Scotland region and,since 2007,the Falkirk West constituency.
Robin Charles Moreton Harper,is a Scottish politician,and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothians region (1999–2011). He was co-convener of the Scottish Greens (2004–2008). Harper became an MSP in the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999,the first ever elected Green parliamentarian in the United Kingdom.
Alasdair Morrison is a Scottish Labour Party politician. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Western Isles constituency from 1999 to 2007.
Rhona Brankin is a former Scottish Labour-Co-operative politician who served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Midlothian constituency. She was first elected in 1999 and was re-elected in 2003 and 2007. She was one of six female Labour MSPs to stand down in 2011.
Nicol Ross Stephen,Baron Stephen is a Scottish politician who served as Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Scottish Liberal Democrats,he was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Aberdeen South from 1999 to 2011,and was leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 2005 to 2008.
(Neil) Murray Tosh is a retired Scottish Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the South of Scotland region (1999–2003) and the West of Scotland region (2003–07).
Iain Cumming Gray is a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2008 to 2011. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the East Lothian constituency from 2007 to 2021,having previously represented Edinburgh Pentlands from 1999 to 2003. A former aid worker and teacher of mathematics and physics,Gray was first elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 as MSP for the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency,which he lost to Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party David McLetchie in 2003. Gray was returned to Holyrood in 2007 as MSP for East Lothian. Following Wendy Alexander's resignation as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party in 2008,Gray stood at the subsequent leadership election,and was elected with a 57.8% share of the vote in the second round.
Duncan Hamilton QC is a Scottish lawyer and Scottish National Party politician. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Highlands and Islands region from 1999 to 2003.
Liam Scott McArthur is a Scottish politician serving as Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament,alongside Annabelle Ewing,since May 2021. A member of the Scottish Liberal Democrats,he has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Orkney since 2007.
James Anthony Kelly is a Scottish politician who has served as General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party since 2021. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region between 2016 and 2021,having previously been MSP for Rutherglen,formerly Glasgow Rutherglen,from 2007 to 2016.
The 2021 Scottish Parliament election took place on 6 May 2021,under the provisions of the Scotland Act 1998. All 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament were elected in the sixth election since the parliament was re-established in 1999. The election was held alongside the Senedd election,English local elections,London Assembly and mayoral election and the Hartlepool by-election.
Alison Johnstone is a Scottish politician who has served as the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament since 2021. Elected as a member of the Scottish Greens,she relinquished her party affiliation on becoming Presiding Officer. She has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothian region since 2011.
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.
Mark McDonald is a Scottish politician who was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Aberdeen Donside constituency from 2013 to 2021,having previously represented the North East Scotland region between 5 May 2011 and 14 May 2013. Formerly a Scottish National Party politician and Minister for Childcare and Early Years in the Scottish Government,he was suspended by the SNP in November 2017 following allegations of inappropriate behaviour against several women. Following a party investigation,the claims were substantiated,McDonald issued an apology on 6 March 2018,announcing he had now left the SNP and would sit in the Scottish Parliament as an Independent.
This is a list of Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) who were returned to the fifth session of the Scottish Parliament. Of the 129 MSPs returned at the 2016 general election,73 were returned from first past the post constituencies with a further 56 members returned from eight regions,each electing seven MSPs as a form of mixed member proportional representation.
