Colours on map indicate the party allegiance of each constituency's elected member. |
This is a list of the 59 members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Scottish constituencies for the Fifty-fifth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2010 to 2015) at the 2010 United Kingdom general election.
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Labour Party | 41 | |
Liberal Democrats | 11 | |
Scottish National Party | 6 | |
Conservative Party | 1 | |
Total | 59 | |
The Scottish Parliament (Holyrood), created by the Scotland Act 1998, has used a system of constituencies and electoral regions since the first general election in 1999.
As a result of the 1707 union of the Kingdom of Scotland with the Kingdom of England to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, within the newly formed Parliament of Great Britain, Scotland had 48 constituencies representing seats for 45 Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons, normally located at the Palace of Westminster..