List of Scottish National Party members of the Scottish Parliament explained

This is a list of Scottish National Party MSPs. It includes all members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) who represented the Scottish National Party in the Scottish Parliament.

List of MSPs

Name	Constituency or region	Type	Start year	End year
Brian Adam	North East Scotland	Region	1999	2003
	Aberdeen North	Constituency	2003	2011
	Aberdeen Donside	Constituency	2011	2013[1]
data-sort-value="Adam, George"	George Adam	Paisley	Constituency	2011
data-sort-value="Adam, Karen"	Karen Adam	Banffshire and Buchan Coast	Constituency	2021
Clare Adamson	Central Scotland	Region	2011	2016
	Motherwell and Wishaw	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="Ahmad, Bashir"	Bashir Ahmad	Glasgow	Region	2007	2009[2]
data-sort-value="Allan, Alasdair"	Alasdair Allan	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	Constituency	2007
data-sort-value="Allard, Christian"	Christian Allard	North East Scotland	Region	2013	2016
data-sort-value="Arthur, Tom"	Tom Arthur	Renfrewshire South	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="Beattie, Colin"	Colin Beattie	Midlothian North and Musselburgh	Constituency	2011
data-sort-value="Biagi, Marco"	Marco Biagi	Edinburgh Central	Constituency	2011	2016
data-sort-value="Brodie, Chic"	Chic Brodie	South Scotland	Region	2011	2016
Keith Brown	Ochil	Constituency	2007	2011
	Clackmannanshire and Dunblane	Constituency	2011
data-sort-value="Brown, Siobhian"	Siobhian Brown	Ayr	Constituency	2021
data-sort-value="Burgess, Margaret"	Margaret Burgess	Cunninghame South	Constituency	2011	2016
data-sort-value="Callaghan, Stephanie"	Stephanie Callaghan	Uddingston and Bellshill	Constituency	2021
Aileen Campbell	South of Scotland	Region	2007	2011
	Clydesdale	Constituency	2011	2021
data-sort-value="Campbell, Colin"	Colin Campbell	West of Scotland	Region	1999	2003
data-sort-value="Campbell, Roderick"	Roderick Campbell	North East Fife	Constituency	2011	2016
Willie Coffey	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Constituency	2007	2011
	Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley	Constituency	2011
Angela Constance	Livingston	Constituency	2007	2011
	Almond Valley	Constituency	2011
Bruce Crawford	Mid Scotland and Fife	Region	1999	2007
	Stirling	Constituency	2007	2021
Roseanna Cunningham	Perth	Constituency	1999	2011
	Perthshire South and Kinross-shire	Constituency	2011	2021
data-sort-value="Denham, Ash"	Ash Denham	Edinburgh Eastern	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="Dey, Graeme"	Graeme Dey	Angus South	Constituency	2011
data-sort-value="Don, Natalie"	Natalie Don	Renfrewshire North and West	Constituency	2021
Nigel Don	North East Scotland	Region	2007	2011
	Angus North and Mearns	Constituency	2011	2016
data-sort-value="Dornan, James"	James Dornan	Glasgow Cathcart	Constituency	2011
Bob Doris	Glasgow	Region	2007	2016
	Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="Dunbar, Jackie"	Jackie Dunbar	Aberdeen Donside	Constituency	2021
data-sort-value="Eadie, Jim"	Jim Eadie	Edinburgh Southern	Constituency	2011
data-sort-value="Elder, Dorothy-Grace"	Dorothy-Grace Elder	Glasgow	Region	1999	2002[3]
Annabelle Ewing	Mid Scotland and Fife	Region	2011	2016
	Cowdenbeath	Constituency	2016
Fergus Ewing	Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber	Constituency	1999	2011
	Inverness and Nairn	Constituency	2011
data-sort-value="Ewing, Margaret"	Margaret Ewing	Moray	Constituency	1999	2006[4]
data-sort-value="Ewing, Winnie"	Winnie Ewing	Highlands and Islands	Constituency	1999	2003
Linda Fabiani	Central Scotland	Region	1999	2011
	East Kilbride	Constituency	2011	2021
data-sort-value="Fairlie, Jim"	Jim Fairlie	Perthshire South and Kinross-shire	Constituency	2021
data-sort-value="Finnie, John"	John Finnie	Highlands and Islands	Region	2011	2012[5]
Joe FitzPatrick	Dundee West	Constituency	2007	2011
	Dundee City West	Constituency	2011
data-sort-value="Forbes, Kate"	Kate Forbes	Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="Freeman, Jeane"	Jeane Freeman	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	Constituency	2016	2021
Kenneth Gibson	Glasgow	Region	1999	2003
	Cunninghame North	Constituency	2007
data-sort-value="Gibson, Rob"	Rob Gibson	Highlands and Islands	Region	2003	2011
data-sort-value="Ross, Gail"	Gail Ross	Caithness, Sutherland and Ross	Constituency	2011	2016
data-sort-value="Todd, Maree"	Maree Todd	Caithness, Sutherland and Ross	Constituency	2021
data-sort-value="Gilruth, Jenny"	Jenny Gilruth	Mid Fife and Glenrothes	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="Gougeon, Mairi"	Mairi Gougeon	Angus North and Mearns	Constituency	2016
Christine Grahame	South of Scotland	Region	1999	2011
	Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale	Constituency	2011
data-sort-value="Gray, Neil"	Neil Gray	Airdrie and Shotts	Constituency	2021
data-sort-value="Hamilton, Duncan"	Duncan Hamilton	Highlands and Islands	Region	1999	2003
data-sort-value="Harper, Emma"	Emma Harper	South Scotland	Region	2016
data-sort-value="Harvie, Christopher"	Christopher Harvie	Mid Scotland and Fife	Region	2007	2011
data-sort-value="Haughey, Clare"	Clare Haughey	Rutherglen	Constituency	2016
Jamie Hepburn	Central Scotland	Region	2007	2011
	Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	Constituency	2011
Fiona Hyslop	Lothians	Region	1999	2011
	Linlithgow	Constituency	2011
data-sort-value="Ingram, Adam"	Adam Ingram	South of Scotland	Region	1999	2016
data-sort-value="Keir, Colin"	Colin Keir	Edinburgh Western	Constituency	2011	2016
Bill Kidd	Glasgow	Region	2007	2011
	Glasgow Anniesland	Constituency	2011
Richard Lochhead	North East Scotland	Region	1999	2006[6]
	Moray	Constituency	2006
Richard Lyle	Central Scotland	Region	2011	2016
	Uddingston and Bellshill	Constituency	2016	2021
data-sort-value="McAllan, Màiri"	Màiri McAllan	Clydesdale	Constituency	2021
Kenny MacAskill	Lothians	Region	1999	2007
	Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	Constituency	2007	2016
data-sort-value="MacDonald, Angus"	Angus MacDonald	Falirk East	Constituency	2011	2021
data-sort-value="MacDonald, Gordon"	Gordon MacDonald	Edinburgh Pentlands	Constituency	2011
data-sort-value="MacDonald, Margo"	Margo MacDonald	Lothians	Region	1999	2003[7]
data-sort-value="MacGregor, Fulton"	Fulton MacGregor	Coatbridge and Chryston	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="Mackay, Derek"	Derek Mackay	Renfrewshire North and West	Constituency	2011	2020[8]
data-sort-value="Mackay, Rona"	Rona Mackay	Strathkelvin and Bearsden	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="MacKenzie, Mike"	Mike MacKenzie	Highlands and Islands	Region	2011	2016
data-sort-value="Macpherson, Ben"	Ben Macpherson	Edinburgh North and Leith	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="Maguire, Ruth"	Ruth Maguire	Cunninghame South	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="Martin, Campbell"	Campbell Martin	West of Scotland	Region	2003	2004[9]
data-sort-value="Martin, Gillian"	Gillian Martin	Aberdeenshire East	Constituency	2016
Tricia Marwick	Mid Scotland and Fife	Region	1999	2007
	Central Fife	Constituency	2007	2011[10]
data-sort-value="Mason, John"	John Mason	Glasgow Shettleston	Constituency	2011
Jim Mather	Highlands and Islands	Region	2003	2007
	Argyll and Bute	Constituency	2007	2011
Michael Matheson	Central Scotland	Region	1999	2007
	Falkirk West	Constituency	2007
data-sort-value="Maxwell, Stewart"	Stewart Maxwell	West of Scotland	Region	2003	2016
data-sort-value="McAlpine, Joan"	Joan McAlpine	South Scotland	Region	2011	2021
Mark McDonald	North East Scotland	Region	2011	2013[11]
	Aberdeen Donside	Constituency	2013	2017[12]
data-sort-value="McFee, Bruce"	Bruce McFee	West of Scotland	Region	2003	2007
data-sort-value="McGugan, Irene"	Irene McGugan	North East Scotland	Region	1999	2003
data-sort-value="McKee, Ian"	Ian McKee	Lothians	Region	2007	2011
data-sort-value="McKee, Ivan"	Ivan McKee	Glasgow Provan	Constituency	2016
Christina McKelvie	Central Scotland	Region	2007	2011
	Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse	Constituency	2011
data-sort-value="McLaughlin, Anne"	Anne McLaughlin	Glasgow	Region	2009	2011
data-sort-value="McLennan, Paul"	Paul McLennan	East Lothian	Constituency	2021
data-sort-value="McLeod, Aileen"	Aileen McLeod	South Scotland	Region	2011	2016
Fiona McLeod	West of Scotland	Region	1999	2003
	Strathkelvin and Bearsden	Constituency	2011	2016
Stuart McMillan	West of Scotland	Region	2007	2016
	Greenock and Inverclyde	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="McNair, Marie"	Marie McNair	Clydebank and Milngavie	Constituency	2021
data-sort-value="Minto, Jenni"	Jenni Minto	Argyll and Bute	Constituency	2021
Alasdair Morgan	Galloway and Upper Nithsdale	Constituency	1999	2007
	South of Scotland	Region	2007	2011
Alex Neil	Central Scotland	Region	1999	2011
	Airdrie and Shotts	Constituency	2011	2021
data-sort-value="Nicoll, Audrey"	Audrey Nicoll	Aberdeen South and North Kincardine	Constituency	2021
Gil Paterson	Central Scotland	Region	1999	2003
	West of Scotland	Region	2007	2011
	Clydebank and Milngavie	Constituency	2011	2021
data-sort-value="Quinan, Lloyd"	Lloyd Quinan	West of Scotland	Region	1999	2003
data-sort-value="Reid, George"	George Reid[13]	Mid Scotland and Fife	Region	1999	2003
data-sort-value="Robertson, Angus"	Angus Robertson	Edinburgh Central	Constituency	2021
data-sort-value="Robertson, Dennis"	Dennis Robertson	Aberdeenshire West	Constituency	2011	2016
Shona Robison	North East Scotland	Region	1999	2003
	Dundee East	Constituency	2003	2011
	Dundee City East	Constituency	2011
data-sort-value="Roddick, Emma"	Emma Roddick	Highlands and Islands	Region	2021
data-sort-value="Ross, Gail"	Gail Ross	Caithness, Sutherland and Ross	Constituency	2016	2021
Michael Russell	South of Scotland	Region	1999	2003
			2007	2011
	Argyll and Bute	Constituency	2011	2021
Alex Salmond	Banff and Buchan	Constituency	1999	2001[14]
	Gordon	Constituency	2007	2011
	Aberdeenshire East	Constituency	2011	2016
Shirley-Anne Somerville	Lothians	Region	2007	2011
	Dunfermline	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="Stevenson, Collette"	Collette Stevenson	East Kilbride	Constituency	2021
Stewart Stevenson	Banff and Buchan	Constituency	2001	2011
	Banffshire and Buchan Coast	Constituency	2011	2021
data-sort-value="Stewart, Kaukab"	Kaukab Stewart	Glasgow Kelvin	Constituency	2021
data-sort-value="Stewart, Kevin"	Kevin Stewart	Aberdeen Central	Constituency	2011
Nicola Sturgeon	Glasgow	Region	1999	2007
	Glasgow Govan	Constituency	2007	2011
	Glasgow Southside	Constituency	2011
John Swinney	North Tayside	Constituency	1999	2011
	Perthshire North	Constituency	2011
Dave Thompson	Highlands and Islands	Region	2007	2011
	Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch	Constituency	2011	2016
data-sort-value="Thomson, Michelle"	Michelle Thomson	Falkirk East	Constituency	2021
data-sort-value="Todd, Maree"	Maree Todd	Highlands and Islands	Region	2016	2021
Maree Todd	Caithness, Sutherland and Ross	Constituency	2021
data-sort-value="Torrance, David"	David Torrance	Kirkcaldy	Constituency	2016
data-sort-value="Tweed, Evelyn"	Evelyn Tweed	Stirling	Constituency	2021
data-sort-value="Tymkewycz, Stefan"	Stefan Tymkewycz	Lothians	Region	2007	2007[15]
data-sort-value="Ullrich, Kay"	Kay Ullrich	West of Scotland	Region	1999	2003
data-sort-value="Urquhart, Jean"	Jean Urquhart	Highlands and Islands	Region	2011	2012[16]
data-sort-value="Walker, Bill"	Bill Walker	Dunfermline	Constituency	2011	2012[17]
Maureen Watt	North East Scotland	Region	2006	2011
	Aberdeen South and North Kincardine	Constituency	2011	2021
data-sort-value="Welsh, Andrew"	Andrew Welsh	Angus	Constituency	1999	2011
Sandra White	Glasgow	Region	1999	2011
	Glasgow Kelvin	Constituency	2011	2021
data-sort-value="Wilson, Andrew"	Andrew Wilson	Central Scotland	Region	1999	2003
data-sort-value="Wilson, Bill"	Bill Wilson	West of Scotland	Region	2007	2011
data-sort-value="Wilson, John"	John Wilson	Central Scotland	Region	2007	2014[18]
data-sort-value="Wheelhouse, Paul"	Paul Wheelhouse	South Scotland	Region	2011	2021
data-sort-value="Whitham, Elena"	Elena Whitham	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	Constituency	2021
Humza Yousaf	Glasgow	Region	2011	2016
	Glasgow Pollok	Constituency	2016

External links

• Current and previous Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs), on the Scottish Parliament website
• Scottish National Party

Notes and References

1. [Brian Adam]
2. [Bashir Ahmad (Scottish politician)|Bashir Ahmad]
3. [Dorothy-Grace Elder]
4. [Margaret Ewing]
5. [John Finnie]
6. In April 2006, Richard Lochhead resigned his additional member seat as MSP for North East Scotland, in order to successfully contest the Moray by-election caused by the death of Margaret Ewing. His regional seat was filled by Maureen Watt.
7. [Margo MacDonald]
8. On 6 February 2020, Derek Mackay was suspended from the SNP. He sat as an independent until he stood down at the May 2021 election.
9. [Campbell Martin]
10. In 2011, Tricia Marwick suspended her membership of the SNP to serve as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament. She continued as an independent MSP until 2016.
11. In May 2013, Mark McDonald resigned as MSP for the North East Scotland region, in order to fight the Aberdeen Donside by-election caused by the death of Brian Adam. He was replaced by the next person on the SNP's North East Scotland list: Christian Allard.
12. In November 2017, following an investigation into misconduct, Mark McDonald resigned from the SNP. He continued to serve as an independent MSP until he stood down at the 2021 election.
13. [George Reid (Scottish politician)|George Reid]
14. [Alex Salmond]
15. [Stefan Tymkewycz]
16. [Jean Urquhart]
17. [Bill Walker (SNP politician)|Bill Walker]
18. In 2014, John Wilson resigned from the SNP. He sat as an independent MSP until the 2016 election.