Scotland Results

Scottish Parliament Results
Party Scottish National Party Scottish Conservatives Scottish Labour Scottish Green Party Scottish Lib Dems Independent
Seats 63 31 24 6 5 0
Change −6 +16 −13 +4 - −1

After 129 of 129 seats Results in full

Latest headlines

  1. Victory for the SNP with 63 seats - two short of a majority
  2. Conservatives are the second largest party on 31 seats - but Labour on 24 lost 13 seats
  3. Scottish Greens are the fourth largest party with six seats, ahead of the Lib Dems who won five
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Edinburgh Western

Scottish Parliament constituency Region - Lothian
Result: LD GAIN FROM SNP

Scoreboard

Party Candidates Votes % Net percentage change in seats
Party

LD

Scottish Lib Dems

 Candidates Alex Cole-Hamilton Votes 16,645 41.9% Net percentage change in seats +14.1
Party

SNP

Scottish National Party

 Candidates Toni Giugliano Votes 13,685 34.4% Net percentage change in seats −1.4
Party

CON

Scottish Conservatives

 Candidates Sandy Batho Votes 5,686 14.3% Net percentage change in seats −0.8
Party

LAB

Scottish Labour

 Candidates Cat Headley Votes 3,750 9.4% Net percentage change in seats −12.0

Change compared with 2011

Turnout and Majority

Scottish Lib Dems Majority

2,960

Turnout

64.5%

Vote share

Party %
Scottish Lib Dems 41.9
Scottish National Party 34.4
Scottish Conservatives 14.3
Scottish Labour 9.4

Vote share change since 2011

−%
+%
Scottish Lib Dems
+14.1
Scottish Conservatives
−0.8
Scottish National Party
−1.4
Scottish Labour
−12.0
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Constituency Profile

This seat contains the old villages of Cramond, Dalmeny and Corstorphine, the seat of the Earls of Rosebery, and Queensferry on the coast.

Notable landmarks in Edinburgh Western include the southern ends of the Forth road and rail bridges, Edinburgh Airport and the Gyle Shopping Centre. The airport's eastern terminal expansion, opened in 2014, netted a "Carbuncle Award", a satirical prize criticising architectural design. Both the M8 and M9 roads also run through the constituency.

The Liberal Democrats won the seat from Conservative Lord James Douglas-Hamilton at the 1997 general election, and Lib Dem Margaret Smith defeated Lord James in the 1999 Holyrood elections. She retained the seat in the 2003 and 2007 Scottish Parliament elections, but lost to Colin Keir for the SNP in 2011. Mr Keir was defeated in his bid to be re-selected to contest the seat for the SNP in 2016.

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