South of Scotland is one of the eight electoral areas for the Scottish Parliament through which 7 of the 56 Additional Members System MSPs are elected.

It covers an area including all of the local authority areas of South Ayrshire, East Lothian, Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders, as well as areas from North Ayrshire and East Ayrshire.

Scottish Parliament Vote, 1999

Political Party	Votes	Share of Vote (%)	% Change	List Seats Won
Labour	98,836	31.0	N/A	0
SNP	80,059	25.1	N/A	3
Conservative	68,904	21.6	N/A	4
Lib Dems	38,157	12.0	N/A	0
SLP	13,887	4.4	N/A	0
Greens	9,468	3.0	N/A	0
Liberals	3,478	1.1	N/A	0
SSP	3,304	1.0	N/A	0
UKIP	1,502	0.5	N/A	0
NLP	775	0.2	N/A	0

MSPs Elected:

• Conservatives - Phil Gallie, Alex Fergusson, Murray Tosh, David Mundell
• SNP - Michael Russell, Adam Ingram, Christine Creech

Also See:

• Scottish Parliamentary Election, 1999

Scottish Parliament Vote, 2003

Political Party	Votes	Share of Vote (%)	% Change	List Seats Won
Labour	78,955	30.0	-1.0	0
Conservative	63,827	24.2	+2.6	2
SNP	48,371	18.4	-6.7	3
Lib-Dems	27,026	10.3	-1.7	0
Greens	15,062	5.7	+2.7	1
SSP	14,228	5.4	+4.4	1
SPP	9,082	3.4	N/A	0
SLP	3,054	1.2	-3.2	0
UKIP	1,889	0.7	+0.2	0
SPA	1,436	0.5	N/A	0
Rural	355	0.1	N/A	0

MSPs Elected:

• Conservatives - Phil Gallie, David Mundell
• SNP - Christine Grahame, Adam Ingram, Alasdair Morgan
• Green - Chris Ballance
• SSP - Rosemary Byrne

See Also:

• Scottish Parliamentary Election, 2003