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Colours on map indicate the party allegiance of each constituency's elected member.

At the 2005 United Kingdom general election, Scottish constituencies elected 59 members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom for the Fifty-fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2005 to 2010).

Composition at election

Affiliation Members
Labour Party 41
Liberal Democrats 11
Scottish National Party 6
Conservative Party 1
 Total 59

Composition at dissolution

Affiliation Members
Labour Party 39
Liberal Democrats 12
Scottish National Party 7
Conservative Party 1
 Total 59

List

MP Constituency Party Notes
Aberdeen North Frank Doran Labour
Aberdeen South Anne Begg Labour
Airdrie and Shotts John Reid Labour
Angus Mike Wier SNP
Argyll and Bute Alan Ried Liberal Democrats
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock Sandra Osborne Labour
Banff and Buchan Alex Salmond SNP
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Michael Moore Liberal Democrats
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross John Thurso Liberal Democrats
Central Ayrshire Brian Donohoe Labour
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill Tom Clarke Labour
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East Rosemary McKenna Labour
Dumfries and Galloway Russell Brown Labour
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale David Mundell Conservative
Dundee East Stewart Hosie SNP
Dundee West Jim McGovern Labour
Dunfermline and West Fife Rachel Squire Labour 2006 By-election
East Dumbartonshire Jo Swinson Liberal Democrats
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow Adam Ingram Labour
East Lothian Anne Moffat Labour
East Renfrewshire Jim Murphy Labour
Edinburgh East Gavin Strang Labour
Edinburgh North and Leith Mark Lazarowicz Labour Co-operative
Edinburgh South Nigel Griffiths Labour
Edinburgh South West Alistair Darling Labour
Edinburgh West John Barett Liberal Democrats
Falkirk Eric Joyce Labour
Glasgow Central Mohammed Sarwar Labour
Glasgow East David Marshall Labour 2008 By-election
Glasgow North Ann McKechin Labour
Glasgow North East Micheal Martin Speaker 2009 By-election
Glasgow North West John Robertson Labour
Glasgow South Tom Harris Labour
Glasgow South West Ian Davidson Labour
Glenrothes John MacDougall Labour 2008 By-election
Gordon Malcolm Bruce Liberal Democrats
Inverclyde David Cairns Labour
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Danny Alexander Liberal Democrats
Kilmarnock and Loudoun Des Browne Labour
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath Gordon Brown Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer (1997–2007),

Prime Minister (2007–2010)

Lanark and Hamilton East Jimmy Hood Labour
Linlithgow and East Falkirk Michael Connarty Labour
Livingston Robin Cook Labour 2005 By-election
Midlothian David Hamilton Labour
Moray Angus Robertson SNP
Motherwell and Wishaw Frank Roy Labour
Na h-Eileanan an Iar Calum Macdonald Labour
North Ayrshire and Arran Katy Clark Labour
North East Fife Sir Menzies Campbell Liberal Democrats
Ochil and South Perthshire Gordon Banks Labour
Orkney and Shetland Alistair Carmichael Liberal Democrats
Paisley and Renfrewshire North Jim Sheridan Labour
Paisley and Renfrewshire South Douglas Alexander Labour
Perth and North Perthshire Pete Wishart SNP
Ross, Skye and Lochaber Charles Kennedy Liberal Democrats
Rutherglen and Hamilton West Tommy MacAvoy Labour Co-operative
Stirling Dame Anne McGuire Labour
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine Sir Robert Smith Liberal Democrats
West Dunbartonshire John McFall Labour

By-elections

  • 2005 Livingstone By-election, Jim Divine, Labour
  • 2006 Dunfermline and West Fife By-election, Willie Rennie, Liberal Democrats
  • 2008 Glasgow East By-election, John Mason, SNP
  • 2009 Glasgow North East By-election, Willie Bain, Labour

See also

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