Latest headlines
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Victory for the SNP with 63 seats - two short of a majority
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Conservatives are the second largest party on 31 seats - but Labour on 24 lost 13 seats
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Scottish Greens are the fourth largest party with six seats, ahead of the Lib Dems who won five
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See the changing political map of Scotland
Scoreboard
| Party | Candidates | Votes | % | Net percentage change in seats |
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Party
SNP Scottish National Party |
Candidates Fiona Hyslop | Votes 19,362 | 50.4% | Net percentage change in seats +0.6 |
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LAB Scottish Labour |
Candidates Angela Boyd Moohan | Votes 10,027 | 26.1% | Net percentage change in seats −11.7 |
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CON Scottish Conservatives |
Candidates Charles Kennedy | Votes 7,699 | 20.0% | Net percentage change in seats +12.3 |
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LD Scottish Lib Dems |
Candidates Dan Farthing-Sykes | Votes 1,319 | 3.4% | Net percentage change in seats +0.5 |
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Change compared with 2011 |
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Turnout and Majority
Scottish National Party Majority
9,335Turnout
53.8%Constituency Profile
Linlithgow is a residential town west of Edinburgh many of whose inhabitants commute into the capital.
It is a town with a rich history and was the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots. The area’s connection to Mary and its historic buildings, such as Linlithgow Palace, make it a popular tourist attraction. The rest of the seat contains former shale-mining areas and includes the towns of Armadale, Blackburn and Whitburn. Scattered around these small towns are agriculture-based villages. More than 1,500 jobs were lost in Broxburn following the closure of the meat factory there.
Labour’s Mary Mulligan secured the seat at the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999 and went on to retain it in 2003 and 2007. Then the political wind of change blew in 2011, and Fiona Hyslop took it for the SNP.