Scottish Parliamentary By-Elections 2003 - 2007

'It is starting to grate that the Liberal Democrats are trying to claim credit for everything. There are some of us who are starting to get really angry about it.' An unnamed Labour MSP, 20 th September 2005.

Total votes cast in Scottish by-elections 2003 - 2007

Logo	Party	Votes	%	Change	Candidates	MSPs elected
	Scottish National Party	16,059	37.49 %	+ 7.03 %	2	1
	Conservative & Unionist	8,574	20.02 %	+ 1.84 %	2	0
	Labour	8,507	19.86 %	- 8.34 %	2	1
	Liberal Democrat	6,857	16.03 %	+ 5.84 %	2	0
	Pat Lally1	856	2.00 %	- 2.91 %	1	0
	Scottish Socialist Party	819	1.91 %	- 6.01 %	1 (- 1)	0
	Scottish Green Party	548	1.28 %	(+ 1.28 %)	1 (+ 1)	0
	NHSFirst Party	493	1.15 %	(+ 1.15 %)	1 (+ 1)	0
	Christopher Creighton	59	0.14 %	(+ 0.14 %)	1 (+1)	0
	UK Independence Party	54	0.13 %	(+ 0.13 %)	1 (+ 1)	0

¹Pat Lally contested Glasgow Cathcart as "Local Health Concern New Acute Victoria" at the 2003 election.

Election results

Moray (Highland Region): 27 th April 2006

Electorate 60,285. Turnout 27,420, 45.70 % (- 0.63 %)
	Richard Lochhead MSP
	Scottish National Party
	Votes	12,653
	%	46.15 %
	% change since 2003	+ 3.96 %
	Mary Scanlon MSP
	Conservative & Unionist
	Votes	6,268
	%	22.86 %
	% change since 2003	+ 0.36 %
	Cllr Linda Gorn
	Liberal Democrat
	Votes	5,310
	%	19.37 %
	% change since 2003	+ 7.20 %
	Cllr Alexander Keith
	Labour
	Votes	2,696
	%	9.83 %
	% change since 2003	- 9.28 %
	Melville (Mev) Brown
	NHSFirst Party
	Votes	493
	%	1.80 %
	% change since 2003	(+ 1.80 %)
Scottish National Party hold
Majority		6,385
% majority		23.29 %
% change since 2003		+ 3.60 %

¹ Richard Lochead and Mary Scanlon resigned as MSPs for North East Scotland and for the Highlands & Islands respectively on the 7 th April 2006 in order to contest the Moray by-election.

Glasgow Cathcart (Glasgow Region): 29 th September 2005

Electorate . Turnout , 31.97 % (- 13.54 %)
	Cllr Charles Gordon
	Labour
	Votes	5,811
	%	37.69 %
	% change since 2003	- 1.50 %
	Marie Whitehead
	Scottish National Party
	Votes	3,406
	%	22.09 %
	% change since 2003	+ 5.82 %
	Richard Cook
	Conservative & Unionist
	Votes	2,306
	%	14.96 %
	% change since 2003	+ 2.01 %
	Arthur Sanderson
	Liberal Democrat
	Votes	1,557
	%	10.10 %
	% change since 2003	+ 2.30 %
	Pat Lally
	Independent
	Votes	856
	%	5.55 %
	% change since 2003	(- 5.29 %)
	Ronnie Stevenson
	Scottish Socialist Party
	Votes	819
	%	5.31 %
	% change since 2003	- 7.33 %
	Chloe Stewart
	Scottish Green Party
	Votes	548
	%	3.55 %
	% change since 2003	(+ 3.55 %)
	Christopher Creighton
	Independent
	Votes	59
	%	0.38 %
	% change since 2003	(+ 0.38 %)
	Bryan McCormac
	UK Independence Party
	Votes	54
	%	0.35 %
	% change since 2003	(+ 0.35 %)
Labour hold
Labour majority		2,405
% majority		15.60 %
% change since 2003		- 7.32 %