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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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Scoreboard
| Party | Candidates | Votes | % | Net percentage change in seats |
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Party
SNP Scottish National Party |
Candidates Roseanna Cunningham | Votes 15,315 | 42.4% | Net percentage change in seats −9.1 |
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Party
CON Scottish Conservatives |
Candidates Liz Smith | Votes 13,893 | 38.4% | Net percentage change in seats +9.9 |
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LAB Scottish Labour |
Candidates Scott Nicholson | Votes 3,389 | 9.4% | Net percentage change in seats −3.4 |
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Party
LD Scottish Lib Dems |
Candidates Willie Robertson | Votes 3,008 | 8.3% | Net percentage change in seats +1.1 |
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SCP Stronger Community Party |
Candidates Craig Finlay | Votes 544 | 1.5% | Net percentage change in seats +1.5 |
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Change compared with 2011 |
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Turnout and Majority
Scottish National Party Majority
1,422Turnout
60.9%Constituency Profile
This is a relatively prosperous, largely rural, lowland constituency on the fringe of the Highlands with successful livestock and fruit-growing sectors reliant on its good soil quality.
The beautiful scenery also attracts tourism, and the constituency as a whole enjoys relatively low unemployment. A sizeable amount of the electorate lives in the city of Perth while other towns in the constituency include Auchterarder, Crieff, and Bridge of Earn. Kinross was added to the constituency in the border review of 2011.
The Tories held Perth's predecessor seats at Westminster for most of the post-war period. But in the 1995 by-election, the SNP's Roseanna Cunningham won through and retained the seat at the 1997 General Election. She went on to be elected to Holyrood when the Scottish Parliament was formed in 1999, and was returned in 2003, 2007 and again in 2011.