Central Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

Central Scotland
electoral region for the Scottish Parliament
Central Scotland shown within Scotland
Population	669,424 (2019)[1]
Current electoral region
Created	1999
MSPs	Scottish National Party 9 Conservative 3 Labour 3 Green 1
Council areas	Falkirk North Lanarkshire South Lanarkshire (part)
Constituencies	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill

Central Scotland (Meadhan-Alba in Gaelic) is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament which were created in 1999. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elects a total of 16 MSPs.

Map of boundaries from 2011

As a result of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries the boundaries for the region and constituencies were redrawn for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

Region	Constituencies
		Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Falkirk East Falkirk West East Kilbride Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill

The constituencies were created in 1999 with the names and boundaries of Westminster constituencies, as existing in at that time.^[2] They cover all of two council areas,^[3] the Falkirk council area and the North Lanarkshire council area, and parts of three others, the East Ayrshire council area, the East Dumbartonshire council area and the South Lanarkshire council area.

The rest of the East Ayrshire council area is within the South of Scotland region, the rest of the East Dunbartonshire council area is within the West of Scotland region, and the rest of the South Lanarkshire council area is within the Glasgow and South of Scotland regions.

Region	Constituencies
		Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton North and Bellshill Hamilton South Kilmarnock and Loudoun Motherwell and Wishaw

The Boundary Commission recommended changes to the electoral regions used to elect "list" members of the Scottish Parliament. The new "Central Scotland" region was formed from the constituencies of Airdrie and Shotts; Coatbridge and Chryston; Cumbernauld and Kilsyth; East Kilbride; Falkirk East; Falkirk West; Hamilton, Lanark and Stonehouse; Motherwell and Wishaw; and Uddingston and Bellshill.

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

In the 2021 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

• 9 SNP MSPs (constituency members)
• 3 Labour MSPs (additional members)
• 3 Conservative MSPs (additional members)
• 1 Green MSP (additional member)

2021 Scottish Parliament election: Central Scotland[4][5][6]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	SNP	Danish Ashraf, Christina McKelvie, Neil Gray, Michelle Thomson, Fulton MacGregor, Stephanie Callaghan, Grant Ferguson, Iain Sinclair, Paul Welsh, Josh Wilson, Cameron McManus	148,399	45.3	2.4
	Labour	Richard Leonard, Monica Lennon, Mark Griffin, Monique McAdams, Chris Costello, Michael McPake, Allyson Black	77,623	23.7	1.1
	Conservative	Stephen Kerr, Graham Simpson, Meghan Gallacher, Haroun Malik, Neil Benny, Ross Lambie, Nathan Wilson, Gordon Macdonald, Bryan Flannagan	59,896	18.3	2.2
	Scottish Green	Gillian Mackay, Rosemary McGowan, Claire Williams, Tom McLaughlin, Patrick McAleer, Kyle Davidson, James Stuart Duffin	19,512	6.0	1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Paul McGarry, Mark McGeever, Dawn Allan, Graham Watson, Ewan McRobert, Karen Utting, Austin Reid	6,337	1.9	0.0
	Alba	Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Lynne Anderson, Jim Walker, Margaret Lynch	5,345	1.6	1.6
	All for Unity	Mary Devlin, Jonathan Stanley, Matt Alexander, Sandra Hill, Billy Ross, Sandy Smart, Lachlan Macneil	2,712	0.8	0.8
	Scottish Family Party	Leo Lanahan, Josh McGrory, Helen MacEachen, Christine MacIver, Christopher Hendry	2,105	0.6	0.6
	Independent Green Voice	John Robertson	1,854	0.6	0.6
	Abolish the Scottish Parliament	John Mortimer, Lee McLauchlan	841	0.3	0.3
	Reform UK	Alan Melville, Hugh Skinner, Alexander MacGregor, Ann Murray	650	0.2	0.2
	Scottish Libertarian	Mark Meechan, Katrina Angus	626	0.2	0.2
	Freedom Alliance	Dave Frankland, Claire McClaren, John Irvine, Louise Bannigan, Di Meechan, Colin McMillan	619	0.2	0.2
	Independent	Paddy Hogg	488	0.2	0.1
	UKIP	Neil Wilson, Yvonne Mackay, Steven Unwin, George Cowan	485	0.2	2.0

In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

• 9 SNP MSPs (constituency members)
• 4 Labour MSPs (additional members)
• 3 Conservative MSPs (additional members)

In the 2011 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

• 9 Scottish National Party MSPs (six constituency members and three additional members)
• 6 Labour MSPs (three constituency members and three additional members)
• 1 Conservative MSP (additional member)

In the 2003 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

• 9 Labour MSPs (nine constituency members)
• 3 Scottish National Party MSPs (three additional members)
• 1 Independent MSP (one constituency member)
• 1 Conservative MSP (one additional member)
• 1 Liberal Democrat MSP (one additional member)
• 1 Scottish Senior Citizens MSP (one additional member)
• 1 Scottish Socialist Party MSP (one additional member)

In the 1999 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

• 9 Labour MSPs (nine constituency members)
• 5 Scottish National Party MSPs (five additional members)
• 1 Independent (one constituency member)
• 1 Conservative MSP (one additional member)
• 1 Liberal Democrat MSPs (one additional member)