2023 Scottish National Party leadership election information
Political party leadership election
2023 Scottish National Party leadership election
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16 February – 27 March 2023 (2023-02-16 – 2023-03-27)
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Turnout
50,494 (69.97%)
Candidate
Humza Yousaf
Kate Forbes
Ash Regan
First round
24,336 (48.2%)
20,559 (40.7%)
5,599 (11.1%)
Second round
26,032 (52.1%)
23,890 (47.9%)
Eliminated
Leader before election
Nicola Sturgeon
Elected Leader
Humza Yousaf
The 2023 Scottish National Party leadership election took place in February and March 2023 to choose the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) to succeed Nicola Sturgeon, who announced her resignation on 15 February. Nominations closed on 24 February 2023 with three candidates: Kate Forbes, Ash Regan, and Humza Yousaf being presented to the electorate of party members. Yousaf was elected the new leader on 27 March with 48.2% of first preference votes and 52.1% of the vote after third-placed candidate Regan's second preferences were redistributed. Yousaf was elected as the First Minister of Scotland on 28 March 2023.
This was the first contested leadership election in the SNP in nearly twenty years as Sturgeon was elected unopposed in the previous election held in 2014. During the course of the election, both the party's chief executive, Peter Murrell (also Sturgeon's husband), and MSP group media chief, Murray Foote, resigned from their positions on 18 and 17 March, respectively, over inaccurate party's membership numbers being communicated.[1]
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