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Glasgow (Scottish Parliamentary Electoral Area)

Glasgow is one of the eight electoral regions for elections to the Scottish Parliament from which 7 of the parliament's 56 Additional Members System (AMS) MSPs are elected.

The area it covers includes all of the City of Glasgow local authority area, as well as areas around Rutherglen in the South Lanarkshire local authority area.

The current seven MSPs elected through the AMS method to represent Glasgow are:

• Sandra White (Scottish National Party)
• Nicola Sturgeon (SNP)
• Tommy Sheridan (Scottish Socialist Party)
• Rosie Kane (SSP)
• Robert Brown (Lib Dems)
• Bill Aitken (Conservatives)
• Patrick Harvie (Scottish Green Party)

Scottish Parliament Vote, 1999

Political Party	Votes	Share of Vote (%)	% Change	List Seats Won
Labour	112,588	43.9	N/A	0
SNP	65,360	25.5	N/A	4
Conservatives	20,239	7.9	N/A	1
SSP	18,581	7.2	N/A	1
Lib Dems	18,473	7.2	N/A	1
Greens	10,159	4.0	N/A	0
SLP	4,391	1.7	N/A	0
Prolife Alliance	2,357	0.9	N/A	0
SUP	2,283	0.9	N/A	0
CPB	521	0.2	N/A	0
Humanist	447	0.2	N/A	0
NLP	419	0.2	N/A	0
SPGB	309	0.1	N/A	0
People's Choice	221	0.1	N/A	0

MSPs Elected:

• SNP - Nicola Sturgeon, Dorothy-Grace Elder, Kenneth Gibson,Sandra White
• Conservative - Bill Aitken
• SSP - Tommy Sheridan
• Lib Dem - Robert Brown

Scottish Parliament Vote, 2003

Political Party	Votes	Share of Vote (%)	% Change	List Seats Won
Labour	77,540	37.7	-6.2	0
SNP	34,894	17.1	-8.4	2
SSP	31,216	15.2	+8.0	2
Tory	15,299	7.5	-0.4	1
Lib Dems	14,839	7.3	+0.1	1
Greens	14,570	7.1	+3.1	1
SSCUP	4,750	2.3	N/A	0
SLP	3,091	1.5	-0.2	0
PLP	2,477	1.2	N/A	0
SUP	2,349	1.1	+0.2	0
BNP	2,344	1.1	N/A	0
SPA	612	0.3	N/A	0
UKIP	552	0.3	N/A	0
CPB	345	0.2	-	0

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