List of Liberal Democrat members of the Scottish Parliament

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This is a list of Scottish Liberal Democrats MSPs. It includes all members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) who represented the Scottish Liberal Democrats (aka "Lib Dems") in the Scottish Parliament.

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List of MSPs

NameConstituency or regionTypeStart yearEnd year
Andrew Arbuckle [1] Mid Scotland and Fife Region2005 [note 1] 2007
Robert Brown [2] Glasgow Region 1999 2011
Alex Cole-Hamilton [3] Edinburgh Western Constituency 2016
Ross Finnie [4] West Scotland Region 1999 2011
Donald Gorrie [5] Central Scotland Region 1999 2007
Jim Hume [6] South of Scotland Region 2007 2011
South Scotland Region 2011 2016
Ian Jenkins [7] Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale Constituency 1999 2003
George Lyon [8] Argyll and Bute Constituency 1999 2007
Liam McArthur [9] Orkney Constituency 2007
Alison McInnes [10] North East Scotland Region 2007 2016
John Farquhar Munro [11] Ross Constituency 1999 2011
Hugh O'Donnell [12] Central Scotland Region 2007 2011 [note 2]
Mike Pringle [13] Edinburgh South Constituency 2003 2011
Jeremy Purvis [14] Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale Constituency 2003 2011
Nora Radcliffe [15] Gordon Constituency 1999 2007
Keith Raffan [16] Mid Scotland and Fife Region 1999 2005 [note 1]
Willie Rennie [17] Mid Scotland and Fife Region 2011 2016
North East Fife Constituency 2016
Euan Robson [18] Roxburgh and Berwickshire Constituency 1999 2007
Mike Rumbles [19] West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine Constituency 1999 2011
North East Scotland Region 2011 2021
Tavish Scott [20] Shetland Constituency 1999 2019 [note 3]
Iain Smith [21] North East Fife Constituency 1999 2011
Margaret Smith [22] Edinburgh West Constituency 1999 2011
David Steel [23] Lothians Constituency 1999 1999 [note 4]
Nicol Stephen [24] Aberdeen South Constituency 1999 2011
Jamie Stone [25] Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Constituency 1999 2011
Jim Tolson [26] Dunfermline West Constituency 2007 2011
Jim Wallace [27] Orkney Constituency 1999 2007
Beatrice Wishart [28] Shetland Constituency 2019 [note 3]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Keith Raffan resigned from the Scottish Parliament on 10 January 2005. His seat was filled by the next-placed candidate on the LibDems Mid Scotland and Fife list: Andrew Arbuckle.
  2. ↑ Hugh O'Donnell resigned from the Scottish Liberal Democrats on 27 March 2011, and sat as an independent MSP until the May 2011 Scottish Parliament election.
  3. 1 2 Tavish Scott resigned from the Scottish Parliament on 15 July 2019. The consequent Shetland by-election was held on 29 August 2019, and won by the Liberal Democrat Beatrice Wishart.
  4. ↑ David Steel was elected as the Scottish Parliament's first Presiding Officer, and promptly suspended his Lib Dem membership for the duration of his tenure as Presiding Office. This election was the first item of business after MSPs were sworn in, so Steel sat as Lib Dem for only a few hours or days.

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  2. ↑ "Robert Brown". Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Scottish Parliament . Retrieved 17 May 2021.
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