Electoral history of Nicola Sturgeon

This is a summary of the electoral history of Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland since 2014, Leader of the Scottish National Party since 2014, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for various constituencies since 1999.

Parliamentary elections

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

Scottish Parliament election, 1999: Glasgow
Constituency		Elected member	Result
	Glasgow Anniesland	Donald Dewar	Labour win (new seat)
	Glasgow Baillieston	Margaret Curran	Labour win (new seat)
	Glasgow Cathcart	Mike Watson	Labour win (new seat)
	Glasgow Govan	Gordon Jackson	Labour win (new seat)
	Glasgow Kelvin	Pauline McNeill	Labour win (new seat)
	Glasgow Maryhill	Patricia Ferguson	Labour win (new seat)
	Glasgow Pollock	Johann Lamont	Labour win (new seat)
	Glasgow Rutherglen	Janis Hughes	Labour win (new seat)
	Glasgow Shettleston	Frank McAveety	Labour win (new seat)
	Glasgow Springburn	Paul Martin	Labour win (new seat)

Changes:

On 11 October 2000, Donald Dewar died. At the subsequent Glasgow Anniesland by-election on 23 November 2000, Bill Butler held the seat for Labour.

Scottish Parliament election, 1999: Glasgow
Party		Elected candidates	Seats	+/−	Votes	%	+/−%
	Labour		0	N/A	112,588	43.9%	N/A
	SNP	Nicola Sturgeon Dorothy-Grace Elder Kenneth Gibson Sandra White	4	N/A	65,360	25.5%	N/A
	Conservative	Bill Aitken	1	N/A	20,239	7.9%	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	Tommy Sheridan	1	N/A	18,581	7.2%	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Brown	1	N/A	18,473	7.2%	N/A
	Scottish Green		0	N/A	10,159	4.0%	N/A
	Socialist Labour		0	N/A	4,391	1.7%	N/A
	ProLife Alliance		0	N/A	2,357	0.9%	N/A
	Scottish Unionist		0	N/A	2,283	0.9%	N/A
	Communist		0	N/A	521	0.2%	N/A
	Humanist		0	N/A	447	0.2%	N/A
	Natural Law		0	N/A	419	0.2%	N/A
	Socialist (GB)		0	N/A	309	0.1%	N/A
	People's Choice		0	N/A	221	0.1%	N/A

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

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Glasgow
Constituency		Elected member	Result
	Glasgow Anniesland	Bill Butler	Labour hold
	Glasgow Baillieston	Margaret Curran	Labour hold
	Glasgow Cathcart	Mike Watson	Labour hold
	Glasgow Govan	Gordon Jackson	Labour hold
	Glasgow Kelvin	Pauline McNeill	Labour hold
	Glasgow Maryhill	Patricia Ferguson	Labour hold
	Glasgow Pollok	Johann Lamont	Labour hold
	Glasgow Rutherglen	Janis Hughes	Labour hold
	Glasgow Shettleston	Frank McAveety	Labour hold
	Glasgow Springburn	Paul Martin	Labour hold

Changes:

On 1 September 2005, Mike Watson resigned after pleading guilty to fire-raising. At the subsequent Glasgow Cathcart by-election held 29 September 2005, Charlie Gordon held the seat for Labour.

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Glasgow
Party		Elected candidates	Seats	+/−	Votes	%	+/−%
	Labour		0	0	77,540	37.7%	-6.2%
	SNP	Nicola Sturgeon Sandra White	2	−2	34,894	17.1%	-8.4%
	Scottish Socialist	Tommy Sheridan Rosie Kane	2	+1	31,216	15.2%	+8.0%
	Conservative	Bill Aitken	1	±0	15,299	7.5%	-0.4%
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Brown	1	±0	14,839	7.5%	-0.4%
	Scottish Green	Patrick Harvie	1	+1	14,570	7.1%	+3.1%
	Scottish Senior Citizens		0	0	4,750	2.3%	N/A
	Socialist Labour		0	0	3,091	1.5%	-0.2%
	ProLife Alliance		0	0	2,477	1.2%	N/A
	Scottish Unionist		0	0	2,349	1.1%	+0.2%
	BNP		0	0	2,344	1.1%	N/A
	Scottish People's		0	0	612	0.3%	N/A
	UKIP		0	0	552	0.3%	N/A
	Communist		0	0	345	0.2%	–

Changes:

Tommy Sheridan resigned from the Scottish Socialist Party in September 2006 and sat as a member of Solidarity.

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Nicola Sturgeon	9,010	41.9	+10.7
	Labour	Gordon Jackson	8,266	38.4	+1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Young	1,891	8.8	+0.3
	Conservative	Martyn McIntyre	1,680	7.8	-1.1
	Independent	Asif Nasir	423	2.0	N/A
	Communist	Elinor McKenzie	251	1.2	N/A
Majority			744	3.5
Turnout			22,741	45.4
Rejected ballots			1,220	5.36
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing	4.7

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Scottish Parliament general election, 2011: Glasgow Southside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Nicola Sturgeon	12,306	54.4	+14.8
	Labour	Stephen Curran	7,957	35.2	-4.6
	Conservative	David Meikle	1,733	7.7	0
	Liberal Democrats	Kenn Elder	612	2.7	-6.9
Majority			4,349	19.2
Turnout			22,608	43.1
	SNP win (new seat)

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Glasgow Southside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Nicola Sturgeon	15,287	61.4	+7.0
	Labour	Fariha Thomas	5,694	22.9	-12.3
	Conservative	Graham Hutchison	3,100	12.4	+4.8
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin Lewsey	822	3.3	+0.6
Majority			9,593	38.5
Turnout			24,903	47.8
	SNP hold		Swing	+9.7

Sturgeon was the only candidate in this election, and was therefore elected unopposed to the position of Leader of the Scottish National Party.

Nicola Sturgeon

First Minister of Scotland (2014–Present) Deputy First Minister of Scotland (2007–2014) Leader of the Scottish National Party (2014–Present) Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party (2004–2014) Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities (2012–2014) Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing (2007–2012) Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Southside (2011–Present) Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Govan (2007–2011) Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow (1999–2007) Born 19 July 1970

First Ministership	First Sturgeon government Second Sturgeon government Proposed second Scottish independence referendum

Elections	2004 (party depute leadership) 2014 (party leadership) 2015 (UK general) 2016 (Scotland) 2017 (local) 2019 (European) 2020 (UK general)

Politics	Electoral history Scottish National Party Glasgow Southside

Family	Peter Murrell (husband) Joan Sturgeon (mother)

Category:Nicola Sturgeon

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