Smallest majorities at Holyrood

saltire shield'I fear that, good servant to the party though he has been, it is time for the men in suits to approach Jack McConnell with a bottle of whisky and a revolver and ask him to do the decent thing. He got an absolute hammering from Mr Salmond and while that might be expected during the honeymoon period of a new government, the worrying thing for Labour is that there are no signs that Mr McConnell is going to get any better.'
Alan Cochrane in the Daily Telegraph, 29 th June 2007.		Lion Rampant

Smallest majorities (under 4,000) at the 2007 Holyrood Parliamentary Election

Majority MSP Constituency Party 2 nd place Party
48 (0.16 %) Kenneth Gibson Cunninghame North Scottish National Party Allan Wilson MSP Labour
382 (1.81 %) Dr Lewis Macdonald MSP Aberdeen Central Labour Cllr Karen Shirron Scottish National Party
476 (1.61 %) Cllr James Tolson Dunfermline West Liberal Democrat Scott Barrie MSP Labour
490 (1.55 %) Cllr Keith Brown Ochil Scottish National Party Cllr Brian Fearon Labour
598 (1.97 % Jeremy Purves MSP Tweedale, Ettrick & Lauderdale Liberal Democrat Christine Grahame MSP Scottish National Party
620 (1.90 %) Bruce Crawford JP MSP Kilmarnock & Loudoun Scottish National Party Dr Sylvia Jackson MSP Labour
687 (5.43 %) Dr Alasdair Allan Western Isles Scottish National Party Alasdair Morrison MSP Labour
744 (3.46 %) Nicola Sturgeon MSP Glasgow Govan Scottish National Party Gordon Jackson, QC MSP Labour
776 (2.70 %) Michael Matheson MSP Falkirk West Scottish National Party Cllr Dennis Goldie Labour
815 (2.83 %) Jim Mather MSP Argyll & Bute Scottish National Party George Lyon MSP Liberal Democrat
870 (2.62 %) Cllr Angela Constance Livingston Scottish National Party Bristow Muldoon MSP Labour
913 (2.16 %) Kenneth McIntosh MSP Eastwood Labour Jackson Carlaw Conservative
1,150 (3.88 %) Mary Mulligan MSP Linlithgow Labour Fiona Hyslop MSP Scottish National Party
1,166 (4.23 %) Tricia Marwick MSP Fife Central Scottish National Party Christine May MSP Labour
1,193 (4.06 %) Sarah Boyack MSP Edinburgh Central Labour Siobhan Mathers Liberal Democrat
1,207 (5.14 %) Pauline McNeill MSP Glasgow Kelvin Labour Sandra White MSP Scottish National Party
1,342 (4.01 %) Cllr Wille Coffey Kilmarnock & Loudoun Scottish National Party Margaret Jamieson MSP Labour
1,382 (4.61 %) Kenny MacAskill MSP Edinburgh East & Musselburgh Scottish National Party Cllr Norman Murray Labour
1,446 (5.32 %) Rhona Brankin MSP Midlothian Labour Colin Beattie Scottish National Party
1,446 (5.32 %) Karen Whitefield MSP Airdrie & Shotts Labour Cllr Sophia Coyle Scottish National Party
1,611 (5.36 %) Jackie Baillie MSP Dumbarton Scottish National Party Graeme McCormick Labour
1,872 (6.17 %) Cathy Peattie MSP Falkirk East Labour Annabelle Ewing Scottish National Party
1,929 (5.92 %) Mike Pringle MSP Edinburgh South Liberal Democrat Cllr Donald Anderson Labour
1,946 (8.02 %) Cllr Joe FitzPatrick Dundee West Scottish National Party Cllr Jill Shimi Labour
1,972 (5.49 %) Andy Kerr MSP East Kilbride Labour Linda Fabiani MSP Scottish National Party
1,985 (7.73 %) John Lamont Roxburgh & Berwickshire Conservative Euan Robson MSP Liberal Democrat
2,062 (5.83 %) Alex Salmond MP Gordon Scottish National Party Nora Radcliffe MSP Liberal Democrat
2,079 (8.15 %) Cathie Craigie MSP Cumbernauld & Kilsyth Labour Jamie Hepburn Scottish National Party
2,168 (9.26 %) Irene Oldfather MSP Cunninghame South Labour Dr Duncan Ross Scottish National Party
2,178 (7.48 %) Trish Godman MSP Renfrewshire West Labour Annabel Goldie MSP Conservative
2,189 (10.11 %) Charles Gordon MSP Glasgow Cathcart Labour James Dornan Scottish National Party
2,310 (13.95 %) Patricia Ferguson MSP Glasgow Maryhill Labour Bob Doris Scottish National Party
2,323 (10.40 %) Jamie Stone MSP Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross Liberal Democrat Rob Gibson MSP Scottish National Party
2,444 (7.71 %) Malcolm Chisholm MSP Edinburgh North & Leith Labour Mike Crockart Liberal Democrat
2,448 (7.10 %) Iain Gray East Lothian Labour Andrew Sharp Scottish National Party
2,476 (28.61 %) Liam McArthur Orkney Liberal Democrat John Mowat Scottish National Party
2,495 (7.16 %) Roseanna Cunningham MSP Perth Scottish National Party Elizabeth Smith Conservative
2,622 (10.84 %) Marilyn Livingston MSP Kirkcaldy Labour Professor Christopher Harvie Scottish National Party
2,732 (9.14 %) Nicol Stephen MSP Aberdeen South Liberal Democrat Maureen Watt MSP Scottish National Party
2,839 (8.50 %) Dr Elaine Murray MSP Dumfries Labour Murray Tosh MSP Conservative
2,881 (19.46 %) Frank McAveety MSP Glasgow Shettleston Labour John McLaughlin Scottish National Party
2,893 (8.68 %) Karen Gillon MSP Clydesdale Labour Aileen Campbell Scottish National Party
3,024 (13.09 %) Duncan McNeill MSP Greenock & Inverclyde Labour Stuart McMillan Scottish National Party
3,179 (11.88 %) Des McNulty MSP Clydebank & Milngavie Labour Gil Paterson Scottish National Party
3,333 (10.99 %) Alex Fergusson MSP Galloway & Upper Nithsdale Conservative Alasdair Morgan MSP Scottish National Party
3,388 (9.26 %) David Whitton Strathkelvin & Bearsden Labour Dr Robin Easton OBE Scottish National Party
3,486 (10.99 %) John Farquhar Munro MSP Ross, Skye & Inverness West Liberal Democrat David Thompson Scottish National Party
3,652 (15.73 %) Tom McCabe MSP Hamilton South Labour Christina McKelvie Scottish National Party
3,749 (15.06 %) Brian Adam MSP Aberdeen North Scottish National Party Elaine Thomson Labour
3,906 (12.59 %) John Scott MSP Ayr Conservative John Duncan Labour
3,934 (22.78 %) Margaret Curran MSP Glasgow Baillieston Labour Lachlan McNeill Scottish National Party
3,986 (11.79 %) Cathy Jamieson MSP Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley Labour Adam Ingram MSP Scottish National Party
3,993 (16.25 %) Helen Eadie MSP Dunfermline East Labour Ewan Dow Scottish National Party
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