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Green Party of Scotland

Scottish Green Party
Pàrtaidh Uaine na h-Alba
Scots Green Pairty
Co-Convenors Patrick Harvie MSP and Maggie Chapman
Founded 1990 (1990)
Headquarters Bonnington Mill
72 Newhaven Road
Edinburgh
EH6 5QG
Newspaper Greenprint
Youth wing Scottish Young Greens
Membership 8,120
Ideology Green politics
Scottish independence
Scottish republicanism
Pro-Europeanism
Political position Centre-left to left-wing
European affiliation European Green Party
International affiliation Global Greens
European Parliament group N/A
UK Parliament affiliation None,
Cooperate with (but are independent from) the Green Party of England and Wales and Green Party in Northern Ireland
Colours      Green
Scottish seats in the House of Commons
0 / 59
Scottish seats in the European Parliament
0 / 6
Scottish Parliament
6 / 129
Local government in Scotland
19 / 1,227
Party flag
Scottish Greens flag.svg
Website
greens.scot

The Scottish Green Party (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Uaine na h-Alba; Scots: Scots Green Pairty) is a green political party in Scotland. The party has six MSPs in the Scottish Parliament as of 2016. After the 2017 local elections, the party also have 19 councillors in six of the 32 Scottish local councils.

The Scottish Green Party was created in 1990 when the former Green Party split into separate, independent parties, for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England and Wales. The party is affiliated to the Global Greens and the European Green Party.

Party membership increased dramatically following the Scottish independence referendum. As of May 2016, the Scottish Green Party has become the fourth biggest party by membership in Scotland, overtaking the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

The Scottish Green Party is fully independent, but works closely with the other green parties of the United Kingdom and Ireland: the Green Party of England and Wales, the Green Party in Northern Ireland and the Green Party of Ireland. It is a full member of the European Green Party. The party currently has six MSPs and nineteen councillors. At the 2005 Westminster election, the party contested 19 seats and polled 25,760 votes, they returned no MPs. Its highest share of the vote was 7.7% of the vote in Glasgow North. In the European Parliament election of 2004, it polled 6.8% of the vote and did not return any MEPs. The party lost five of their seven seats in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election.


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