Lothian (Scottish Parliament region)

Lothian
electoral region for the Scottish Parliament
Lothian shown within Scotland
Current electoral region
Created	2011
MSPs	Scottish National Party 6 Conservative 4 Labour 3 Scottish Green 2 Liberal Democrats 1
Council areas	City of Edinburgh East Lothian (part) Midlothian (part) West Lothian
Constituencies	Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh

Lothian is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elects a total of 16 MSPs.

The Lothian region was created as a result of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries and largely replaced the Lothians region.

As a result of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries the boundaries for the region and constituencies were redrawn for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

Elections take place on a whole-region basis: candidates shown in the same column have no particular relationship to each other.

In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

In the 2011 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows: