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
  4. See the of Scotland

Edinburgh Pentlands

Scottish Parliament constituency Region - Lothian
Result: SNP HOLD

Scoreboard

Party Candidates Votes % Net percentage change in seats
Party

SNP

Scottish National Party

 Candidates Gordon MacDonald Votes 13,181 39.5% Net percentage change in seats +2.3
Party

CON

Scottish Conservatives

 Candidates Gordon Lindhurst Votes 10,725 32.2% Net percentage change in seats +0.7
Party

LAB

Scottish Labour

 Candidates Blair Heary Votes 7,811 23.4% Net percentage change in seats −3.2
Party

LD

Scottish Lib Dems

 Candidates Emma Farthing-Sykes Votes 1,636 4.9% Net percentage change in seats +0.2

Change compared with 2011

Turnout and Majority

Scottish National Party Majority

2,456

Turnout

60.4%

Vote share

Party %
Scottish National Party 39.5
Scottish Conservatives 32.2
Scottish Labour 23.4
Scottish Lib Dems 4.9

Vote share change since 2011

−%
+%
Scottish National Party
+2.3
Scottish Conservatives
+0.7
Scottish Lib Dems
+0.2
Scottish Labour
−3.2
Scotland Constituencies and Regions A-Z

Constituency Profile

This seat takes in some affluent suburbs and picturesque countryside south west of Edinburgh. It is a socially diverse seat, and most inhabitants have a good standard of living and many work in well-paid non-manual jobs.

Also situated here is the Wester Hailes council-built estate, along with Sighthill, the growing Heriot Watt University and a chunk of the Pentland Hills regional park.

Former UK government minister Malcolm Rifkind was first elected Conservative MP for Pentlands in February 1974, and held it until 1997 when he lost to Labour's Lynda Clarke. The Holyrood seat has changed hands repeatedly. It was won by Iain Gray for Labour in 1999. but taken by David McLetchie, then leader of the Tories north of the border in 2003. He went on to retain the constituency at the 2007 poll, but lost to Gordon MacDonald of the SNP in 2011.

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