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	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		The Scottish Parliament (Scottish Gaelic: PÃ rlamaid na h-Alba; Scots: Scots Pairlament) is the national unicameral legislature of Scotland, in the Holyrood area of the capital Edinburgh.
		The original Parliament of Scotland (or "Estates of Scotland") was the national legislature of the independent Kingdom of Scotland and existed from the early thirteenth century until the Kingdom of Scotland merged with the Kingdom of England under the Acts of Union 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
		The principal role of committees in the Scottish Parliament is to scrutinise legislation.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Scottish_Parliament (5701 words)

	United Kingdom constituencies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Scottish Parliament is a devolved parliament with constituencies representing Scotland.
		The Scottish Parliament itself and all its now existing constituencies were created, effectively, in 1999, when the first Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) were elected to the then new parliament.
		For the 2005 House of Commons general election the number of House of Commons constituencies in Scotland was reduced from 72 to 59 and the Scottish Parliament constituencies remainded as they had been in 1999.
	united-kingdom-constituencies.iqnaut.net (419 words)

	Aladsair Morrison MSP - About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Elected to the Scottish Parliament in May 1999 as the member for the Western Isles constituency, Alasdair served as Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, the Highlands and Islands, Gaelic and Tourism until November 2001.
		He is Convener of the cross party group on Gaelic in the Scottish Parliament and a member of cross party groups on Crofting and Oil and Gas.
		Off the north west coast of Scotland, the Western Isles archipelago stretches for 130 miles and is home to a population of approximately 26,000.
	www.yourmsp.co.uk /about.htm (281 words)

	Scottish Affairs, N McEwen; Is Devolution at Risk?
		At the constituency level, turnout ranged from 35.41% in Glasgow Shettleston to 58.42% in the Western Isles, with the regional vote ranging from 41.45% in Glasgow to 53.25% in the West of Scotland (Burnside, et al., 2003: 9).
		Turnout tends to be higher in elections to national Parliaments and lower in elections to sub-state or local institutions and in elections to the European Parliament.
		The establishment of a Scottish Parliament came to be regarded and promoted, not just as a vehicle for the expression of Scottish national identity, but as a pre-requisite for better public services and progressive social and economic change in line with Scottish policy priorities (McEwen, 2002; Mitchell and Bennie, 1996).
	www.scottishaffairs.org /onlinepub/sa/mcewen_sa44_sum03.html (5720 words)

	Scottish Affairs, Denver; 2005 General Election in Scotland (online article)
		In addition, since local council wards form the building blocks of constituencies and general election votes in wards are not available, local election results have to be used to estimate the electoral effects of different areas moving between constituencies.
		The general pattern of constituency variations in turnout is most effectively described by correlation coefficients which measure the strength of association between turnout and variables indicating the socio-economic characteristics of constituencies and the electoral context.
		On the other hand, where the coefficients are significant, the pattern of support across constituencies for the Liberal Democrats is similar to the Conservative pattern, although it is interesting to note that the strength of the Church of Scotland is not related to the size of the Liberal Democrat vote.
	www.scottishaffairs.org /onlinepub/sa/denver_sa53_aut05.html (3826 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Parliamentary Elections in the U.K. - Elections to the House of Commons
		The United Kingdom Parliament is composed of the Crown, that is the monarch, the House of Lords, an appointive and hereditary upper chamber, and the popularly elected lower chamber, the House of Commons.
		As a result, the average number of electors per constituency for the 2001 election was 67,380, but the individual constituencies ranged from a low of 21,706 electors in the Western Isles (in Scotland's north-western coast) to a high of 104,431 in the Isle of Wight (located off the coast of southern England).
		Each elector casts a vote for one of the candidates running for MP in his or her constituency, and the candidate with the largest number of votes is elected to office.
	electionresources.org /uk (2550 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions \| The Campaign for an English Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In spite of having their own Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, Scottish and Welsh MPs are still entitled to attend the Westminster Parliament and vote on matters affecting only England, such as health, education and transport, etc. However, English MPs are not entitled to vote on matters affecting Scotland or Wales.
		But if they got their own parliament again, then they could point to it knowing it was originally founded in 1153 and existed as the very Mother of Parliaments and the seed bed of modern democracy, and proudly say, that’s part of what we’ve achieved as the English nation.
		The Western Isles and the Highlands are Celtic in language and culture, quite distinct from the Anglo-Saxon regions of the Central Belt and the Lowlands.
	www.thecep.org.uk /questions.shtml (2544 words)

	The Scottish aviation gateway - problems, prospects and policy possibilities
		Given the limited size of the Scottish market, it has been accepted that demand is unlikely to be sufficient to support a comprehensive range of international services.
		We have also discussed with the Council and the Scottish Executive the results of the study on the East/West runway which indicates that the runway could be improved at a cost of £10 million.
		The response of the Westminster Minister was to require the Westminster MP for Orkney and Shetland to pass through others to the Scottish Parliament to raise the issue of Public Service Obligation Order status for Orkney and Shetland: a suggestion which surely increases the deficit.
	www.geocities.com /transport_and_society/scottishaviationgateway.htm (3773 words)

	Managing Information News
		Members of the Scottish Parliament’s Education and Outreach team and the MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Pauline McNeill, have launched the Scottish Parliament’s Partner Library Focus Project on June 20 at the Learning Suite, Level 3, Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow.
		Working in close co-operation with the public library sector, the Scottish Parliament has established a network of 80 Partner Libraries throughout Scotland which act as a focal point in local communities for information about the Parliament and its work.
		There is a Partner Library in each parliamentary constituency, plus an additional seven, mostly in the Highlands and Islands region, to reflect the unique geographic and transport problems faced by constituents in rural areas.
	www.managinginformation.com /news/content_show_full.php?id=1649 (390 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party Conference 2004 Section 1 - Motions on Elections
		The Scottish Socialist Party has shown a commitment to gender equality and women’s representation in public office not only in theory but in reality too.
		We recognise the significant impact of having 4 socialist women being elected to the Parliament The Scottish Socialist Party wants to continue to promote gender equality in the election of all internal and public representatives.
		Conference notes that Members of the Scottish Parliament are able to legitimately use accommodation expenses payments, to purchase a property for their use, whilst on business in Edinburgh and are subsequently able to benefit personally from the sale of that property.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.org /conference/conf04/sat_motions01.html (709 words)

	Outer Hebrides - Western Isles of Scotland
		The name for the UK Parliament constituency covering this area is Na h-Eileanan an Iar, whilst the Scottish Parliament constituency for the area continues to be officially known as Western Isles.
		Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis is the administrative capital of the Wester Isles.
		The Western Isles culture remains very strong, and the Sunday is still strictly lived by the Free Church traditional values.
	www.scotlandview.co.uk /outer_hebrides.htm (1732 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Special Report \| 1999 \| 06/99 \| Scottish Parliament opening \| The Queen's speech
		The Scottish Parliament was formally opened by the Queen with a brief speech in the Assembly Hall.
		This new Parliament and the symbolism of this opening ceremony are rightly anchored in the history of Scotland.
		This parliament has set itself many challenges: to be modern, not just in the use of technology but in the way it engages with the people of Scotland in a climate of openness and accessibility; to understand the past, respecting those timeless values of probity and service to all the people of Scotland.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/special_report/1999/06/99/scottish_parliament_opening/382982.stm (664 words)

	The Electoral Commission : Election results
		Elections were held for the Scottish Parliament on 1 May 2003.
		The first vote is for a constituency Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), where the candidate with the most votes wins the constituency seat.
		The second vote is for a political party or an individual candidate standing for a seat in a Scottish Parliament Region.
	www.electoralcommission.org.uk /election-data/index.cfm?epage=b&frmElectionID=2 (367 words)

	The Current Political
		While the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Liberal Democrats made some gains at the expense of the Conservatives, Labour were confirmed as the dominant party in Scotland, they have every seat in the central belt except a lonely Liberal Democrat in Edinburgh West.
		There could be various reasons why support for a parliament was stronger in Scotland than in Wales, but while large parts of Scotland are apart from the central belt and have their own regional identity, there is nothing like the way large parts of Wales are closer to Liverpool or Birmingham than Cardiff.
		At the coming Scottish Parliamentary election the SSA would need to roughly double its vote at the general election in Glasgow to win a seat there, this could be difficult but is by no means impossible.
	home.igc.org /~itobr/idm3/csscot.html (1831 words)

	Scottish Parliament Debate - A Cure for ME
		Scottish Enterprise is to fund, through the University of Glasgow's research and enterprise department, an independent company to conduct market research into ME. I am sorry, but I find that project almost repulsive in nature.
		He and other members will have met constituents who suffer from ME and their carers, and will have tried to explain to them that although we in Parliament are doing our utmost, our calls are falling on deaf ears in the medical profession.
		We must be able to say to our constituents and to people in Scotland who suffer from ME that we are prepared to allocate a couple of thousand pounds in order to see the research through in an attempt to find a cure.
	www.meactionuk.org.uk /Scottish_Parliament_Debate.htm (5925 words)

	Hebrides
		The name for the UK Parliament constituency covering this area is Na h-Eileanan an Iar, whilst the Scottish Parliament constituency for the area continues to be officially known as Western Isles although it is almost always written as Western Isles (Eilean Siar).
		The Scottish acceptance of Magnus III as King of the Isles came after the Norwegian king had conquered the Orkney Islands, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in a swift campaign earlier the same year, directed against the local Norwegian leaders of the various islands.
		The northern parts of the Western Isles (particularly Lewis and Harris) have been described as the last bastion of fundamentalist Calvinism in Britain[1] with large numbers of inhabitants belonging to the Free Church of Scotland or the still more conservative Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
	www.globalguide.org /?id=44449 (1387 words)

	SNP.org - Official Web Site of the Scottish National Party
		There are three opportunities to vote SNP on Thursday 1st of May because you have two votes for the Scottish Parliament and one for your local council.
		The first vote for your constituency MSP is the area in which you live, eg Edinburgh South, Western Isles, etc.
		This allocates seats to parties according to the general level of support and taking into account the number of constituency seats won by a party or individual – therefore the seats that are allocated are much more representative of how the electorate voted.
	www.snp.org.uk /html/election/voting.php (1477 words)

	Isle of Barra news, archive
		Scottish Dance Bands are specially recorded in session for the programme and once a month we go on the road for an Outside Broadcast to record a dance with an audience, at locations all over Scotland, giving a live sound heard nowhere else on radio.
		Winnie is stepping down from the Scottish Parliament this year, bringing to an end a political career that has spanned the UK Parliament, The European Parliament and the new Scottish Parliament.
		Best known in the Western Isles for her continuous and active support for Scottish fishermen, Winnie gained the respect of many fishermen throughout the Highlands Islands and Grampian for her strong and vocal campaigns in Europe to protect Scottish interests.
	www.isleofbarra.com /news/archive7.html (7020 words)

	politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In total, 659 Members of Parliament will be elected from across the constituent parts of the United Kingdom: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England.
		Those who are elected then go to the United Kingdom Parliament in Westminster, London, to represent their parties and constituents in the House of Commons.
		In Scotland there is greater choice for voters as in addition to the British political parties, there is also the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Scottish Socialist Party who are contesting all 72 of the Scottish seats.
	website.lineone.net /~scottishfreedom/electsystem2001.html (293 words)

	GENERAL ELECTION MAY AND JUNE 2005 PROMISES FOR VOTES \| LABOUR PARTY TONY BLAIR, GORDON BROWN, JOHN PRESCOTT \| ...
		However not all Parliaments run for the whole five years, and a general election may be held before this period is up.
		In the 1992 parliament, there were 651 constituencies, but this rose to 659 from the 1997 general election.
		The constituency of Ross, Skye and Inverness West was the largest by area at 918,319 hectares.
	www.bushywood.com /general_election.htm (1844 words)

	About SNH - Around Scotland
		Please select an Area from the list on the left, or from the map below.
		In 2003, we produced a series of natural heritage leaflets for every Scottish Parliament constituency.
		The leaflets will next be updated to coincide with the Scottish Parliament elections in 2007.
	www.snh.org.uk /scottish/ns-a00.asp (103 words)

	Her Majesty Opens the Scottish Parliament, 7/1/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This new Parliament, and the symbolism of this Opening Ceremony, are rightly anchored into the History of Scotland.
		This Parliament has set itself many challenges --- to be modern not just in the use of technology, but in the way it engages with the people of Scotland in a climate of openness and accessibility; to understand the past, respecting those timeless values of proberty and service to the people of Scotland.
		You will be called upon to exercise wisdom in using the powers of this Parliament; to deduce with care and deliberation; and to hold to account Scottish Ministers and Public Servants to ensure good government for the people of Scotland.
	isnoop.net /sa/dragonmaster/fergjuly1.html (595 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Parliament sits from Monday through to Thursday from early January through to late June and from early September through to mid December, with additional mid-sessional 2 week recesses in April and October.
		All matters that are not specifically reserved are automatically devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
		Any member can put their name forward to be First Minister and a vote is taken by all members of Parliament.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Scottish_Parliament (5700 words)

	Scottish Conservatives :: Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Margaret has also been a councillor and was special adviser to David McLetchie MSP and James Douglas-Hamilton MSP prior to being elected to the Scottish Parliament.
		Margaret is Scottish Conservative Justice Spokesman and a member of the parliament’s Justice 1 Committee.
		In addition to this she is Vice Chairman of the Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CPG) and she co chairs the Dyslexia Cross Party Group.
	www.scottishconservatives.com /biogs.asp?biogid=59 (179 words)

	Western Isles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dr Alasdair Allan was next in line to become an MSP for North East Scotland when Richard Lochhead resigned to fight the Moray by-election, however he decided instead to devote himself to attempting to win the Western Isles from Labour.
		Alasdair Morrison was born on the 18 th November 1968 in Stornoway on Lewis and educated at Paible School, North Uist, the Nicolson Institute on the Isle of Lewis and at Glasgow Caledonian University.
		Dave Petrie was born in Edinburgh on the 10 th December 1946 and was educated at Trinity Academy in Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University where he graduated with a BSc in Civil Engineering, and Moray House School of Education (now part of Edinburgh University) where he obtained a PGCE in Mathematics.
	www.alba.org.uk /scot07constit/h08.html (657 words)

	2003 Scottish Parliament Elections quiz -- free game
		"This is a quiz on the 2003 elections to the Scottish Parliament."
		How many constituencies were there in the first vote of the election?
		The leaders of all the main six parties all gained seats on the Constituency System.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=128884 (193 words)

	Scottish Parliament Regional Seat Compositions
		I've compiled the following lists of Scottish constituencies and their groupings for the regional lists for the Scottish General Election.
		This was compiled from the Scottish Office Website (which is hopelessly wrong) and The Herald's forecast of the Scottish Election (which also had mistakes).
		Argyll and Bute; Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross; Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber; Moray; Orkney; Ross, Skye and Inverness West; Shetland; Western Isles (8 seats).
	thecapitalscot.com /pastfeatures/scotparli.html (304 words)

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