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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Glasgow Kelvin

Scottish Parliament constituency Region - Glasgow
Result: SNP HOLD

Scoreboard

Party Candidates Votes % Net percentage change in seats
Party

SNP

Scottish National Party

 Candidates Sandra White Votes 10,964 38.5% Net percentage change in seats −4.8
Party

GRN

Scottish Green Party

 Candidates Patrick Harvie Votes 6,916 24.3% Net percentage change in seats +24.3
Party

LAB

Scottish Labour

 Candidates Michael Shanks Votes 5,968 21.0% Net percentage change in seats −18.8
Party

CON

Scottish Conservatives

 Candidates Sheila Mechan Votes 3,346 11.8% Net percentage change in seats +4.2
Party

LD

Scottish Lib Dems

 Candidates Carole Ford Votes 1,050 3.7% Net percentage change in seats −4.0
Party

IND

Independent

 Candidates Tom Muirhead Votes 198 0.7% Net percentage change in seats −1.0

Change compared with 2011

Turnout and Majority

Scottish National Party Majority

4,048

Turnout

45.7%

Vote share

Party %
Scottish National Party 38.5
Scottish Green Party 24.3
Scottish Labour 21.0
Scottish Conservatives 11.8
Scottish Lib Dems 3.7
OTHERS 0.7

Vote share change since 2011

−%
+%
Scottish Green Party
+24.3
Scottish Conservatives
+4.2
Scottish Lib Dems
−4.0
Scottish National Party
−4.8
Scottish Labour
−18.8
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Constituency Profile

The whole of Glasgow city centre is contained in the seat. It also features Glasgow University, Strathclyde University and Glasgow Caledonian University.

To the east of the constituency, the Merchant City contains many flats converted from disused cotton and tobacco warehouses and is a symbol of the area’s bid to modernise. The seat, which no longer features the BAE shipyard at Scotstoun, is the most prosperous one in Glasgow. Kelvin's predecessor seat, Glasgow Hillhead, was the last Conservative constituency in Glasgow until Roy Jenkins won it for the SDP at a Westminster by-election in 1982.

He held it at the 1983 general election but it was then taken by Labour’s George Galloway, who remained Kelvin’s representative at Westminster until he headed south in 2005. Labour’s Pauline McNeill represented the Glasgow Kelvin seat from 1999 to 2011 when she lost it to the SNP’s Sandra White.

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