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The [[Scottish Parliament]] ([[Scottish Parliament Building|Holyrood]]), created by the [[Scotland Act 1998]], has used a system of '''constituencies and electoral regions''' since the [[1999 Scottish Parliament election|first general election in 1999]].
The parliament has 73 [[United Kingdom constituencies|constituencies]], each electing one [[Member of the Scottish Parliament]] (MSP) by the [[Plurality voting|plurality]] ([[first-past-the-post]]) system of voting, and eight [[Mixed-member proportional representation|additional member]] regions, each electing seven additional MSPs. Each region is a group of constituencies, and the [[D'Hondt method]] of allocating additional member seats from [[Political party|party]] lists is used to produce a form of [[proportional representation]] for each region. The total number of parliamentary seats is 129. For lists of MSPs, see ''[[Member of the Scottish Parliament]]''.
Boundaries of Holyrood and [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] ([[Palace of Westminster|Westminster]]) constituencies are subject to review by the [[Boundaries Scotland]], and prior to the [[Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004]] reviews of [[Scottish Westminster constituencies]] would have been also reviews of Holyrood constituencies. The [[Arbuthnott Commission]], in its final report, January 2006, recommended that [[Council areas of Scotland|council area]] boundaries and Holyrood and Scottish Westminster constituency boundaries should all be reviewed together. This recommendation has not been implemented.
== Boundaries ==
=== 1999–2011 ===
{{Main|List of Scottish Parliament constituencies and electoral regions (1999–2011)}}
Until the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]] the first-past-the-post constituencies were the same as for the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] ([[United Kingdom Parliament]], [[Palace of Westminster|Westminster]]), except for [[Orkney (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Orkney]] and [[Shetland (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Shetland]], which were separate constituencies at Holyrood, but not at Westminster.  The [[Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004]] enabled a new set of House of Commons constituencies to be formed in Scotland in 2005,<ref>See ''[http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/ The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070921124603/http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/ |date=21 September 2007 }}''</ref> reducing their number and, therefore, the number of Scottish [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Members of Parliament]]  (MPs) to 59, without change to the Holyrood constituencies and the number of MSPs.
[[1999 Scottish Parliament election|1999]] boundaries were used also for the [[2003 Scottish Parliament election|2003]] and [[2007 Scottish Parliament election|2007]] elections.
=== 2011–present ===
{{Main|List of Scottish Parliament constituencies and electoral regions (2011–present)}}
The first periodical review of boundaries of Scottish Parliament constituencies<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/1st_holyrood/1st_holyrood.htm |title=''First Periodical Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries'', Boundary Commission for Scotland website, accessed 20 December 2008 |access-date=15 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080217060718/http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/1st_holyrood/1st_holyrood.htm |archive-date=17 February 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> was announced on 3 July 2007,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/1st_holyrood/newsreleases/announce.pdf |title=''Review of Constituencies at the Scottish Parliament'', news release, Boundary Commission for Scotland website |access-date=12 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327045415/http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/1st_holyrood/newsreleases/announce.pdf |archive-date=27 March 2010 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and the commission's final recommendations were implemented for the [[2011 Scottish Parliament election]].
Total numbers of constituencies, regions, and MSPs remain at, respectively, 73, 8, and 129.
== References ==
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[[Category:Scottish Parliamentary regions| ]]