6th Scottish Parliament

6th Scottish Parliament
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Legislative body	Scottish Parliament
Jurisdiction	Scotland
Meeting place	Scottish Parliament Building
Term	13 May 2021 –
Election	2021
Regierung	Third Sturgeon government
Mitglieder	129
Presiding Officer	Alison Johnstone
First Minister	Nicola Sturgeon
Deputy First Minister	John Swinney
Leader of the Opposition	Douglas Ross
Sessions
1st 13 May 2021 –

The 6th Scottish Parliament was elected at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. It was opened with the Escort to the Crown Parade and Speech from the Throne on October 3, 2021.

Composition

Party		May 2021 election	Currently
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | •	Scottish National Party	64	64
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color" |	Scottish Conservatives	31	31
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color" |	Scottish Labour	22	22
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Greens/meta/color" |•	Scottish Greens	8	7
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" |	Scottish Liberal Democrats	4	4
style="background-color: Template:Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament/meta/color" |	Presiding Officer	0	1
Total		129
Government majority		0	14

Government parties denoted with bullets (•)

Leadership

• Presiding Officer: Alison Johnstone (Independent)
• Deputy Presiding Officers: Annabelle Ewing (SNP), Liam McArthur (Lib Dems)

Regierung

Main article: Scottish cabinet

• First Minister: Nicola Sturgeon (SNP)
• Deputy First Minister: John Swinney (SNP)
• Minister for Parliamentary Business: George Adam (SNP)

Opposition

Main article: Opposition Shadow Cabinets of the Scottish Parliament

Main article: First Minister's Questions (Scottish Parliament)

• Leader of the Opposition: Douglas Ross (Conservatives)
• Secondary Opposition Leader: Anas Sarwar (Labour)
• Tertiary Opposition Leader: Patrick Harvie & Lorna Slater (Greens)
• Leader of the Liberal Democrats: Willie Rennie

List of MSPs

This is a list of MSPs so far elected. The changes table below records all changes in party affiliation during the session, since the May 2021 election.

There are eight MSPs who have been constant members since the inauguration of the Parliament in 1999 (ten other founding members retired prior to the 2021 election): Jackie Baillie, Fergus Ewing and John Swinney have been elected six times under the same constituency (Swinney's was renamed with different boundaries in 2011); Christine Grahame, Fiona Hyslop, Michael Matheson, Shona Robison and Nicola Sturgeon were returned as a list member then a constituency member. A ninth MSP Richard Lochhead has served almost the same term, resigning his list seat in 2006 to successfully contest a by-election a few weeks later for a constituency seat, which he has defended since then.

Name		Image	Member for	Typ	Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	George Adam		Paisley	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Karen Adam		Banffshire and Buchan Coast	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Clare Adamson		Motherwell and Wishaw	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Alasdair Allan		Na h-Eileanan an Iar	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Tom Arthur		Renfrewshire South	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color"|	Jackie Baillie		Dumbarton	Constituency	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color"|	Claire Baker		Mid Scotland and Fife	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Jeremy Balfour		Lothian	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Colin Beattie		Midlothian North and Musselburgh	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Neil Bibby		West Scotland	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Sarah Boyack		Lothian	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Miles Briggs		Lothian	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Keith Brown		Clackmannanshire and Dunblane	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Siobhian Brown		Ayr	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Greens/meta/color"|	Ariane Burgess		Highlands and Islands	Regional	Scottish Greens
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Alexander Burnett		Aberdeenshire West	Constituency	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Stephanie Callaghan		Uddingston and Bellshill	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Donald Cameron		Highlands and Islands	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Jackson Carlaw		Eastwood	Constituency	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Finlay Carson		Galloway and West Dumfries	Constituency	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Greens/meta/color"|	Maggie Chapman		North East Scotland	Regional	Scottish Greens
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Foysol Choudhury		Lothian	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Katy Clark		West Scotland	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Willie Coffey		Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color"|	Alex Cole-Hamilton		Edinburgh Western	Constituency	Scottish Liberal Democrats
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Angela Constance		Almond Valley	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Ash Denham		Edinburgh Eastern	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Graeme Dey		Angus South	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Natalie Don		Renfrewshire North and West	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Bob Doris		Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	James Dornan		Glasgow Cathcart	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Sharon Dowey		South Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Jackie Dunbar		Aberdeen Donside	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Pam Duncan-Glancy		Glasgow	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Annabelle Ewing		Cowdenbeath	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Fergus Ewing		Inverness and Nairn	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Jim Fairlie		Perthshire South and Kinross-shire	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Russell Findlay		West Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Joe FitzPatrick		Dundee City West	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Kate Forbes		Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Murdo Fraser		Mid Scotland and Fife	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Meghan Gallacher		Central Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Kenneth Gibson		Cunninghame North	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Jenny Gilruth		Mid Fife and Glenrothes	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Maurice Golden		North East Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Pam Gosal		West Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Mairi Gougeon		Angus North and Mearns	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Christine Grahame		Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Rhoda Grant		Highlands and Islands	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Neil Gray		Airdrie and Shotts	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Jamie Greene		West Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Greens/meta/color"|	Ross Greer		West Scotland	Regional	Scottish Greens
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Mark Griffin		Central Scotland	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Sandesh Gulhane		Glasgow	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Jamie Halcro Johnston		Highlands and Islands	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Rachael Hamilton		Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire	Constituency	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Emma Harper		South Scotland	Regional	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Greens/meta/color"|	Patrick Harvie		Glasgow	Regional	Scottish Greens
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Clare Haughey		Rutherglen	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Jamie Hepburn		Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Craig Hoy		South Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Fiona Hyslop		Linlithgow	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Daniel Johnson		Edinburgh Southern	Constituency	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament/meta/color"|	Alison Johnstone		Lothian	Regional	Presiding Officer
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Liam Kerr		North East Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Stephen Kerr		Central Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Bill Kidd		Glasgow Anniesland	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Monica Lennon		Central Scotland	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Richard Leonard		Central Scotland	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Richard Lochhead		Moray	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Dean Lockhart		Mid Scotland and Fife	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Douglas Lumsden		North East Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Gordon MacDonald		Edinburgh Pentlands	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Fulton MacGregor		Coatbridge and Chryston	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Greens/meta/color"|	Gillian Mackay		Central Scotland	Regional	Scottish Greens
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Rona Mackay		Strathkelvin and Bearsden	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Ben Macpherson		Edinburgh Northern and Leith	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Ruth Maguire		Cunninghame South	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Michael Marra		North East Scotland	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Gillian Martin		Aberdeenshire East	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	John Mason		Glasgow Shettleston	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Michael Matheson		Falkirk West	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Màiri McAllan		Clydesdale	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color"|	Liam McArthur		Orkney	Constituency	Scottish Liberal Democrats
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Ivan McKee		Glasgow Provan	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Christina McKelvie		Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Paul McLennan		East Lothian	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Stuart McMillan		Greenock and Inverclyde	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Marie McNair		Clydebank and Milngavie	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Pauline McNeill		Glasgow	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Jenni Minto		Argyll and Bute	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Carol Mochan		South Scotland	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Sir Edward Mountain		Highlands and Islands	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Oliver Mundell		Dumfriesshire	Constituency	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Audrey Nicoll		Aberdeen South and North Kincardine	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Paul O'Kane		West Scotland	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color"|	Willie Rennie		North East Fife	Constituency	Scottish Liberal Democrats
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Angus Robertson		Edinburgh Central	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Shona Robison		Dundee City East	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Emma Roddick		Highlands and Islands	Regional	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Douglas Ross		Highlands and Islands	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Alex Rowley		Mid Scotland and Fife	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Greens/meta/color"|	Mark Ruskell		Mid Scotland and Fife	Regional	Scottish Greens
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Anas Sarwar		Glasgow	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Graham Simpson		Central Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Greens/meta/color"|	Lorna Slater		Lothian	Regional	Scottish Greens
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Liz Smith		Mid Scotland and Fife	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Colin Smyth		South Scotland	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Shirley-Anne Somerville		Dunfermline	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Collette Stevenson		East Kilbride	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Alexander Stewart		Mid Scotland and Fife	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Kaukab Stewart		Glasgow Kelvin	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Kevin Stewart		Aberdeen Central	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Nicola Sturgeon		Glasgow Southside	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Paul Sweeney		Glasgow	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	John Swinney	File:Deputy First Minister, John Swinney.jpg	Perthshire North	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Michelle Thomson		Falkirk East	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Maree Todd		Caithness, Sutherland and Ross	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	David Torrance		Kirkcaldy	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Evelyn Tweed		Stirling	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Mercedes Villalba		North East Scotland	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Sue Webber		Lothian	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Annie Wells		Glasgow	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Tess White		North East Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color"|	Martin Whitfield		South Scotland	Regional	Scottish Labour
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Elena Whitham		Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	Constituency	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color"|	Brian Whittle		South Scotland	Regional	Scottish Conservatives
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color"|	Beatrice Wishart		Shetland	Constituency	Scottish Liberal Democrats
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color"|	Humza Yousaf		Glasgow Pollok	Constituency	Scottish National Party

Changes

Date	Constituency/region	Gain		Loss		Note
13 May 2021	Lothian		Presiding Officer		Scottish Green	Alison Johnstone was elected Presiding Officer and consequently had to renounce her party affiliation.

External links

• Scottish Parliament website
• Current and previous Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs), on the Scottish Parliament website