National Governance & Politics

Public domain knowledge resources around the public insititutions & bodies that are responsible for running the country at the national level, and the individuals – such as elected politicians – with responsibility for oversight of them.

There are 129 members (‘MSP’s’) of the Scottish Parliament, elected by a mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system – 73 are elected to single member constituencies by ‘first past the post’, with the other 56 being elected by a 2nd vote to 8 additional member regions, with the outcome dependent on the results for the political parties of the 1st vote in the region’s constituencies. Elections happen every 5 years, with the last happening in May 2016.

Though these politicians fundamentally affect our lives on a day-to-day basis through supporting their party’s policies, and their participation in, and oversight of, government and the essential services that keep the nation going, it’s difficult to get the big picture AND the detail, AND how both have changed over time, in the one source. This first ever political knowledge atlas of the members, constituencies & electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament helps solve that problem.

There are 59 Scottish members (‘MP’s’) of the United Kingdom Parliament at Westminster out of a total of 650, elected every 5 years or so (very roughly speaking). Though these politicians fundamentally affect our lives on a day-to-day basis through supporting their party’s policies, and their participation in, and oversight of, government and the essential services that keep the nation going, it’s difficult to get the big picture AND the detail, AND how both have changed over time, in the one source. This first ever political knowledge atlas of the members & constituencies of the UK Parliament in Scotland helps solve that problem.

Scotland has 59 out of the total 650 consituencies that make up the United Kingdom Parliament at Westminster, to which a single member (‘MP’) is elected every 5 years or so (very roughly speaking). Obviously this is a political process with an unpredictable outcome, but this map is about visually connecting the general, geographic & electoral knowledge resources about the consituency that remain valid no matter who is currently elected.

It’s all over bar the shouting for another 5 years (aye, right!), so we can now update our 2019 UK Parliament General Election CANDIDATES Knowledge Atlas with the actual RESULTS, now that all of Scotland’s 59 constituencies have declared.

So all the previously blank cells in the embedded recent election results spreadsheets have been filled in for each Scottish constituency, the successfully elected candidate seed branches ‘flagged & tagged’, and their shiny new majorities embedded as single data fields.

However though the UK Parliament will open it’s doors again on monday the 16th of December, it will take a few days for each victorious candidate to be sworn in as an MP, and so officially re-constitute it. It will then take several weeks for all the online knowledge resources to catch up, especially for the new MPs elected for the first time. Thus even though it won’t take long to publish an updated version of our General, Geographic & Electoral Knowledge Atlas for Constituencies, we wll have to leave it for a month or so until mid January 2020 before we can publish an updated version of our Scottish Constituencies & Members – Political Knowledge Atlas, but in the meanwhile this map will tell you “who’s who and who’s new, doon the road in the Big Hoose”, with all the embedded and attached knowledge resources still available for those who have been previously.

Candidate nominations for the 2019 General Election closed at 4pm on Friday 11th November, 7 days after the parliament was dissolved (view the whole election timetable here). But who’s standing in your constituency, and what do they stand for? This map helps you find out as it includes links to all the knowledge resources you need about all the candidates standing in Scotland.

There are 59 Scottish members (‘MP’s’) of the United Kingdom Parliament at Westminster out of a total of 650, elected every 5 years or so (very roughly speaking). Though these politicians fundamentally affect our lives on a day-to-day basis through supporting their party’s policies, and their participation in, and oversight of, government and the essential services that keep the nation going, it’s difficult to get the big picture AND the detail, AND how both have changed over time, in the one source. This first ever political knowledge atlas of the members & constituencies of the UK Parliament in Scotland helps solve that problem.

Scotland has 59 out of the total 650 consituencies that make up the United Kingdom Parliament at Westminster, to which a single member (‘MP’) is elected every 5 years or so (very roughly speaking). Obviously this is a political process with an unpredictable outcome, but this map is about visually connecting the general, geographic & electoral knowledge resources about the consituency that remain valid no matter who is currently elected.

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