Livingston (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Livingston is a
constituency of the
Scottish Parliament (
Holyrood). It elects one
Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the
plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the
Lothians electoral region, which elects seven
additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of
proportional representation for the region as a whole.
See also Lothians Scottish Parliament regionThe other eight constituencies of the Lothians region are
Edinburgh Central,
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh,
Edinburgh North and Leith,
Edinburgh Pentlands,
Edinburgh South,
Edinburgh West,
Linlithgow and
Midlothian.
The region covers the
City of Edinburgh council area, the
West Lothian council area, part of the
Midlothian council area, and part of the
East Lothian council area.
The Linlithgow constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in
1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing
Westminster constituency. In
2005, however, Scottish Westminster (
House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies
[See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland].
The Holyrood constituency is one of two covering the
West Lothian council area, the other being
Linlithgow, west and north of the Linlithgow constituency.
