LIST OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN SCOTLAND

Contents

Parties represented in the Scottish Parliament

Minor parties

Not registered with the Electoral Commission

Defunct parties

See also

Parties represented in the Scottish Parliament

Parties represented in the Scottish Parliament (in order of number of representatives):

★ Scottish National Party (SNP) - centre-left, pro-independence- '47 MSPs'

★ Labour - centre-left, unionist - '46 MSPs'

★ Conservative - centre-right, unionist - '17 MSPs'

★ Liberal Democrat - centre-left, federalist - '16 MSPs'

★ Scottish Green Party - environmentalist, pro-independence - '2 MSPs'

Minor parties

★ Abolish Forth Bridge Tolls Party

★ Adam Lyal's Witchery Tour Party

★ British National Party - Great Britain-wide party

★ Christian Peoples Alliance - Great Britain-wide party

★ Communist Party of Britain - Great Britain-wide party

★ East Dunbartonshire Independent Alliance

★ East Kilbride Alliance

★ Free Scotland Party

★ Independent Green Voice - Great Britain-wide party

★ Local Health Concern

★ Nine Per Cent Growth Party

★ Pensioners Party

★ Pride In Paisley Party

★ Publican Party

★ Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers

★ Scottish Christian Party

★ Scottish Independence Party

★ Scottish Jacobite Party

★ Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party

★ Scottish Socialist Party

★ Scottish Unionist Party

★ Scottish Voice

★ Scottish Wind Watch

★ Socialist Labour Party - Great Britain-wide party

★ Solidarity

★ United Kingdom Independence Party - Great Britain-wide party

Not registered with the Electoral Commission

The following parties were not registered with the Electoral Commission as of 2 September 2006, and may be defunct:

★ Communist Party of Scotland - Scottish party formed after collapse of Communist Party of Great Britain

★ Left Alliance - have 2 councillors in Fife

★ Scottish Enterprise Party - centre-right, pro-independence

Defunct parties

★ Communist Party of Great Britain (1920-1991)

★ Fife Socialist League (1950s-1960s)

★ Fishing Party

★ Highlands and Islands Alliance

★ Highland Land League (1909-1920s)

★ Independent Labour Party (1893-1975)

★ Labour Party of Scotland

★ National Party of Scotland (1928-1934)

★ Scottish Labour Party (1888-1893)

★ Scottish Labour Party (1976-1979)

★ Scottish Militant Labour

★ Scottish Party (1930s)

★ Scottish Republican Socialist Party (now part of the SSP)

★ Scottish Socialist Party (1987-1990)

★ Scottish Unionist Party (1912-1965)

★ Scottish Workers Republican Party

See also

★ Elections in Scotland

★ Politics of Scotland

★ Electoral Commission (United Kingdom)