Results

The SYP National Elections were held between the 2^nd and 15^th of March, with results being announced by individual local authorities from the 15^th through to the 28^th of March.

These were the first SYP elections to be held in all 32 Local Authorities at the same time.  Over the two week election period a total of 67,071 young people voted – enough to fill Scotland’s biggest stadium Murrayfield. They elected 142 Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYP).

The newly elected MSYPs, representing every Scottish Parliamentary constituency, will take up office at the Scottish Youth Parliament’s National Sitting at the end of June.

 

Grant Costello MSYP, Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament, says

Grant Costello MSYP, Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament, says
“My congratulations to all of the newly elected MSYPs.  Standing for election can be scary, but for the successful candidates the reward is having the chance to stand up and be the voice of young Scots.  The success of the elections is down to all the fantastic young people who campaigned hard to be elected, and convinced over 67,000 of their peers to vote.  It’s a great reply to those who claim young people don’t care about politics.

“These elections have also been an enormous success for the Scottish Youth Parliament, capping a sensational twelve months.  In the last year we’ve seen the Scottish Government create bills for Equal Marriage and Votes at 16 in the Independence Referendum.  This election gives our new MSYPs a real mandate from Scotland’s young people to keep on campaigning for the fairer and more equal Scotland the Scottish Youth Parliament wants to make a reality.”

Four constituencies (Galloway and West Dumfries, Cunninghame North, Skye Lochaber and Badenoch and Na h-Eileanan an Iar) only had one candidate stand for election.  The Local Authorities will endeavor to run by-elections in the next few months to fill the vacant seats.

A full list of the newly elected MSYPs can be found below, listed by Local Authority.

 

Aberdeen 

Struan King and Michael Hutchison are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Aberdeen Central

Megan Lukins and Kris Chapman are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Aberdeen South and North Kincardine

Jamie Ross and Braden Davy are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Aberdeen Donside

Aberdeenshire 

Lee Gallon and Garden Campbell are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Banffshire & Buchan Coast

Millie Low and Chris Glass are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Aberdeenshire East

Luke McLeod and Kieran Thomas Rorie are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Aberdeenshire West

Robbie Nicol is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Angus North & Mearns (Mearns area)

 

Angus 

Colleen Brown and Emma Farquhar are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Angus South

Eilidh Collins is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Angus North & Mearns (Angus North area)

 

Argyll and Bute 

Katie Burke is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Dumbarton (Helensbiurgh and Lomond area)

David McLaughlin and Fraser Stewart are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Argyll and Bute

 

Clackmannanshire 

Morna Campbell and Robbie McIntosh are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Clackmannanshire and Dunblane.

Dundee
Daniel Coleman, Louise Doak, Louise Dunnin and Sibelius Erskine Smith are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for Dundee

Dumfries and Galloway 

Amy McFall and Chanelle Milligan are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Dumfriesshire

Caitlin McDowall is duly elected as  a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Galloway & West Dumfries

 

East Ayrshire 

Ewan McCall and Fraser McRobert are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Kilmarnock & Irvine

Jamie McJanet is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley

 

East Dunbartonshire 

Cameron Smyth is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Clydebank and Milngavie

Rachel Crawford and Callum McNally are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Strathkelvin and Bearsden

 

 

East Lothian 

There are three MSYPs elected for East Lothian.  The result is:

Maya Allan, Rhiordan Langan-Fortune and Brendan Sleigh are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament.

East Renfrewshire 

Neil Wood and Nicole Dempster are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Eastwood

Christopher Quinn is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Renfrewshire South (East Renfrewshire portion) 

Edinburgh 

Dean Pearson and Owen Cruikshank are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Edinburgh Western

Alisha Malik and Calum Fila are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Edinburgh Pentlands

Katie Evans and Terri Miller are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Edinburgh Northern and Leith

Sofia Della Sala and Sara Findlay are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Edinburgh Southern

Assad Khan and Megan Smith are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Edinburgh Eastern

Wing Yan Ng and Ciaran Davidson are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Edinburgh Central

 

Eilean Siar (Western Isles) 

Roy Bartle is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Na h-Eileanan an Iar.

Falkirk 

Jacob Friel and Hazel Sharp are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Falkirk East

Kirsty Gardiner and Flora Scarabello are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Falkirk West      

 

Fife 

Katie Heeps and Finlay George are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Cowdenbeath

Chris Cain and Eilidh Reid are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Dunfermline

Nicola Bruley and Amir Aslam are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Kirkcaldy

Liam Jamieson and Shannon Robertson are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Mid Fife and Glenrothes

Jamie MacLeod and Hollie Nelson-Smith are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of North East Fife

Glasgow

Isra Ali and Samuel Cook are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Glasgow Anniesland 

Eilidh Dolan and John Gillies are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Glasgow Cathcart

Gary Paterson and Joshua Morrison are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Glasgow Kelvin

Ishan Salim and Michaela McIlroy are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn

Katie Murray and Thomas McEachon are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Glasgow Pollok

Molly McQueen and Kimberley Wallace are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Glasgow Provan

David Stewart and Greg Hepburn are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Glasgow Shettleston

Kyle Thornton and David Linden are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Glasgow Southside

 

Highland 

James Goodwin and Scott Simpson are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of  Caithness, Sutherland and Ross.

Isla Mackenzie and Ellena Leslie are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Inverness and Nairn.

Catriona Ferguson is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.

Inverclyde 

Sean Paul O’Connor and Ross Hampsey are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Greenock and Inverclyde

 

Midlothian

Sam Tracey and Rose Andrew are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament.

Moray

Louise Cameron and John Thain are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Moray

North Ayrshire

Nairn McDonald and Josh McCormick are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Cunninghame South

Luke Cannon is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Cunninghame North

 

North Lanarkshire

Robert Black and Rachel Murphy are duly elected as a Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Airdrie & Shotts

Jordan Linden is duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Uddingston & Bellshill (Bellshill area)

Scott Lamond and James Phimister are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Coatbridge & Chryston

Junaid Ashraf and Rhianne Carroll are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Cumbernauld & Kilsyth

Amy Kerr and Lauren King are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Motherwell & Wishaw

 

Orkney

Iona Torbet and Samuel Murray are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Orkney

 

Perth and Kinross

Calum Wilson and Nathan Dunn are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Perthshire North.

Callum Purves and Megan Cassidy are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Perthshire South and Kinross-shire.

Renfrewshire

Denzel Darku and  Emma Hendrie are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Paisley

Jordan Buchanan is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Renfrewshire South

Adam Ferns and Robyn McKay are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Renfrewshire North and West

 

15:45 – Scottish Borders

The result for the Scottish Borders has just been announced:

Scott Redmond and Finlay Duff  are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire   

Nicola Pringle is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale   
   

Shetland

Catherine Hannah and Kaylee Mouat are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Shetland 

 

South Ayrshire

Kirsty McCahill and Caitlyn McClue are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Ayr

Kate Fleming is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (South Ayrshire portion)

South Lanarkshire

Megan Russell and Abbie Young are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Clydesdale

Lewis Field and Rachael McCully are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of East Kilbride

Mark Brownlie and Maria Maguire are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse

Conner Campbell and Aric Gilinsky are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Rutherglen

Allan Cater  is is duly elected as a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Uddingston and Bellshill

 

Stirling

One Constituency contested in Stirling.  There were seven candidates in one of the tougher contests happening across the country.  The result, announced last night in Stirling, is:

Chris Wood and Anna Goodfellow are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Stirling

 

West Dunbartonshire

Dylan Mitchell and Laura O’Donnell are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament.

 

West Lothian

Sarah Thomson and Sarah Devlin are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Almond Valley  

Dean Williamson and Ross Brunton are duly elected as Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament for the Constituency of Linlithgow     

 

 

If you have any questions then email ewan.m@syp.org.uk.