All 129 seats to the Scottish Parliament 65 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout
Constituency - 53.9% 4.2pp Regional - 54.0% 4.3pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Alex Salmond
Jack McConnell
Annabel Goldie
Party
SNP
Labour
Conservative
Leader's seat
Gordon
Motherwell and Wishaw
West of Scotland
Last election
27 seats
50 seats
18 seats
Seats won
47
46
17
Seat change
20
4
1
Constituency vote
664,227
648,374
334,743
% and swing
32.9%9.1%
32.1% 2.5%
16.6%
Regional vote
633,611
595,415
284,035
% and swing
31.0%10.1%
29.2% 0.2%
13.9% 1.6%
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Nicol Stephen
Robin Harper / Shiona Baird
Colin Fox
Party
Liberal Democrats
Scottish Green
Scottish Socialist
Leader's seat
Aberdeen South
Lothians / North East Scotland (defeated)
Lothians (defeated)
Last election
17 seats
7 seats
6 seats
Seats won
16
2
0
Seat change
1
5
6
Constituency vote
326,232
2,971
525
% and swing
16.2% 0.8%
0.1% 0.1%
0.0% 6.2%
Regional vote
230,651
82,577
13,096
% and swing
11.3% 0.5%
4.0% 2.9%
0.6% 6.1%
The map shows the election results in single-member constituencies. The additional member MSPs in the 8 regions are shown around the map.
First Minister before election
Jack McConnell
Labour
First Minister after election
Alex Salmond
SNP
The 2007 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the Scottish Parliament. It was the third general election[1] to the devolved Scottish Parliament since it was created in 1999. Local elections in Scotland fell on the same day.
The Scottish National Party emerged as the largest party with 47 seats, closely followed by the incumbent Scottish Labour Party with 46 seats. The Scottish Conservatives won 17 seats, the Scottish Liberal Democrats 16 seats, the Scottish Greens 2 seats and one Independent (Margo MacDonald) was also elected. The SNP initially approached the Liberal Democrats for a coalition government, but the Lib Dems turned them down.[2] Ultimately, the Greens agreed to provide the numbers to vote in an SNP minority government, with SNP leader Alex Salmond as First Minister.[3]
The Scottish Socialist Party and the Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party, which won seats in the 2003 election, lost all of their seats. Former MSP Tommy Sheridan's new party, Solidarity, also failed to win any seats. Campbell Martin and Dr Jean Turner both lost their seats, and Dennis Canavan and Brian Monteith retired.
^"Scotland Act 1998 – Part I – Section 2 – General elections". opsi.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 19 May 2007. Retrieved 19 September 2006.
^"Lib Dems rule out SNP coalition". BBC News. 7 May 2007. Archived from the original on 23 September 2007.
^"SNP and Greens sign working deal". BBC News. 11 May 2007. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
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