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Scottish National Party Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba Scottis Naitional Pairtie

Leader	Alex Salmond MSP
Deputy Leader	Nicola Sturgeon MSP
SNP Westminster Group Leader	Angus Robertson MP
Founded	1934
Headquarters	Gordon Lamb House 3 Jackson's Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Scotland
Student wing	Federation of Student Nationalists
Youth wing	Young Scots for Independence
Membership	20,139^[1]
Ideology	Scottish Independence,^[2]^[3] Social democracy, Left-wing nationalism, Civic nationalism
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	None
European affiliation	European Free Alliance
European Parliament Group	The Greens–European Free Alliance
Official colours	Yellow and Heather
Scottish seats in the House of Commons	6 / 59
Scottish seats in the European Parliament	2 / 6
Scottish Parliament	69 / 129
Local government in Scotland^[4]	362 / 1,222
Website
http://www.snp.org/
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The Scottish National Party (SNP; Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba; Scots: Scottis Naitional Pairtie) is a social democratic^[5]^[6] political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.

The SNP was founded in 1934, and has had continuous parliamentary representation since Winnie Ewing's groundbreaking victory at the 1967 Hamilton by-election.^[7]

In the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary election, the SNP became the largest political party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time, governing as a minority administration, with party leader Alex Salmond as First Minister of Scotland. At the 2011 Scottish Parliamentary election, the SNP won a landslide victory^[8] and became the first party to form a majority government in the Scottish Parliament since its resumption in 1999.^[9]

The SNP currently holds 6 of 59 Scottish seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and 2 of 6 Scottish seats in the European Parliament. The SNP is also currently the largest group in Scottish local government and, in coalition, forms 12 out of 32 local administrations.

History

Main article: History of the Scottish National Party

The SNP was formed in 1934 from the merger of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party. Professor Douglas Young, who was the leader of the Scottish National Party from 1942 to 1945 fought for the Scottish people to refuse conscription and his activities were popularly vilified as undermining the British war effort against the Axis powers. Young was imprisoned for refusing to be conscripted.

The SNP first won a parliamentary seat at the Motherwell by-election in 1945, but Dr Robert McIntyre MP lost the seat at the general election three months later. They next won a seat in 1967, when Winnie Ewing was the surprise winner of a by-election in the previously safe Labour seat of Hamilton. This brought the SNP to national prominence, leading to the establishment of the Kilbrandon Commission.

The high point in a British General Elections thus far was when the SNP polled almost a third of all votes in Scotland at the October 1974 general election and returned 11 MPs to Westminster, to date the most MPs it has had, although its representation was reduced significantly in the 1979 general election.^[10]

In the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary election the SNP emerged as the largest party with 47 seats, narrowly ousting the Scottish Labour Party with 46 seats and Alex Salmond became Scottish First Minister.

Between 2007 and 2011, the Scottish Green Party supported the appointment of the SNP government under an agreement which also specified areas of common policy and gave the Greens input to the budget process and convenorship of the parliamentary committee on transport, infrastructure and climate change.

In May 2011 the SNP won an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament with 69 seats. Overall majorities are unusual in the Additional Member system that is used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, which was specially designed by the Labour UK government in 1999 to prevent any party gaining overall control of the parliament."^[11]

Party leaders

Alexander MacEwan (1934–1936)
Andrew Dewar Gibb (1936–1940)
William Power (1940–1942)
Douglas Young (1942–1945)
Bruce Watson (1945–1947)
Robert McIntyre (1947–1956)
James Halliday (1956–1960)
Arthur Donaldson (1960–1969)
William Wolfe (1969–1979)
Gordon Wilson (1979–1990)
Alex Salmond (1990–2000)
John Swinney (2000–2004)
Alex Salmond (2004–present)

Party presidents

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1934–1936)
Roland Muirhead (1936–1950)
Tom Gibson (1950–1958)
Robert McIntyre (1958–1980)
William Wolfe (1980–1982)
Donald Stewart (1982–1987)
Winnie Ewing (1987–2005)
Ian Hudghton (2005–present)

Scottish parliamentary leaders

Alex Salmond (1999–2000)
John Swinney (2000–2004)
Nicola Sturgeon (2004–2007)
Alex Salmond (2007–present)

Westminster parliamentary leaders

Donald Stewart (1974–1987)
Margaret Ewing (1987–1999)
Alasdair Morgan (1999–2001)
Alex Salmond (2001–2007)
Angus Robertson (2007–present)

Party organisation

Christine Grahame's office in Galashiels

The SNP consists of local branches of party members. Those branches then form an association in the constituency they represent (unless there is only one branch in the constituency, in which case it forms a constituency branch rather than a constituency association). There are also eight regional associations, to which the branches and constituency associations can send delegates.

The SNP's policy structure is developed at its annual national conference and its regular national council meetings. There are also regular meetings of its national assembly, at which detailed discussion (but not finalising) of party policy takes place.

The party has an active youth wing, the Young Scots for Independence, as well as a student wing, the Federation of Student Nationalists. There is also an SNP Trade Union Group. There is an independently-owned monthly newspaper, The Scots Independent, which is highly supportive of the party.

The SNP's leadership is vested in its National Executive Committee (NEC) which is made up of the party's elected office bearers and six elected members (voted for at conference). The SNP parliamentarians (Scottish, Westminster and European) and councillors have representation on the NEC, as do the Trade Union Group, the youth wing and the student wing.

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending 2010, the party had a membership of 16232,^[12] up from 15,097 in 2008 and 9,450 in 2003.^[13] In 2004 the party had income of approximately £1,300,000 (including bequests of just under £300,000) and expenditure of about £1,000,000.^{[citation needed]}

Policy platform

The SNP's policy base is mostly in the mainstream European social-democratic mould. For example, among its policies are a commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament, progressive personal taxation, the eradication of poverty, free state education including support grants for higher education students and a pay increase for nurses. It is also committed to an independent Scotland being a full member state of the European Union, to the country joining the Euro currency at the appropriate exchange rate and is against membership of NATO (however this remains controversial).

Contrary to the expectations of many outside the party, the SNP is not expressly republican, and its general view is that this is an issue secondary to that of Scottish independence. Many SNP members are republicans, however, and both the party student and youth wings are expressly so.^{[citation needed]}

In August 2009 as part of its third legislative term in the Scottish Parliament, the Government proposes to debate the Scottish referendum bill 2010, which would set out a planned referendum for 30th^[14] November 2010 on the issue of Scottish independence. It was not however expected to pass, due to opposition from all the major opposition parties in the Parliament.^[15]^[16]

Party ideology

By the 1960s, the party was starting to become defined ideologically. It had by then established a National Assembly which allowed for discussion of policy and was producing papers on a host of policy issues that could be described as based on social democracy. Also, the emergence of William Wolfe (universally known as Billy) as a leading figure played a huge role in the SNP defining itself as a left-of-centre and social-democratic party. He recognised the need to do this to challenge the dominant political position of the Scottish Labour Party.

He achieved this in a number of ways: establishing the SNP Trade Union Group; promoting centre-left policies; and identifying the SNP with labour campaigns (such as the Upper-Clyde Shipbuilders Work-in and the attempt of the workers at the Scottish Daily Express to run as a cooperative). It was during Wolfe's period as SNP leader in the 1970s that the SNP became clearly identified as a social-democratic political party.

There were some ideological tensions in the 1970s SNP. The party leadership under Wolfe was determined to stay on the left of the Scottish political spectrum and be in a position to challenge the Labour Party. However, the party's MPs, mostly representing seats won from the Scottish Conservatives, were less keen to have the SNP viewed as a centre-left alternative to Labour, for fear of losing their seats back to the Conservatives.

There were further ideological and internal struggles after 1979 with the 79 Group attempting to move the SNP further to the left, away from being what could be described a 'social-democratic' party, to an expressly 'socialist' party. 79 Group members including current leader, Alex Salmond, were expelled from the party. This produced a response in the shape of the Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland from those who wanted the SNP to remain a 'broad church', apart from arguments of left vs. right.

The 1980s saw the SNP further define itself as a party of the political left, for example running campaigns against the poll tax. It developed this platform to the stage it is at now: a clear, moderate, centre-left political party. This has itself not gone without internal criticism from the left of the party who believe that in modern years the party has become too moderate.

The ideological tensions inside the SNP are further complicated by the arguments between the so-called SNP gradualists and SNP fundamentalists. In essence, gradualists seek to advance Scotland to independence through further devolution, in a 'step-by-step' strategy. They tend to be in the moderate left grouping, although much of the 79 Group was gradualist in approach. However, this 79 Group gradualism was as much a reaction against the fundamentalists of the day, many of whom believed the SNP should not take a clear left or right position.

This grouping of "neo-fundamentalists" have their roots within the camp of the former high-profile Labour Party MP Jim Sillars who left Labour to form the short-lived Scottish Labour Party in 1976 (the party had no connection with the UK Labour Party or the current Scottish Labour group in the Scottish Parliament). Sillars eventually joined the SNP, winning the Govan, Glasgow, by-election in 1988 to become an SNP MP. He lost the Westminster seat at the 1992 general election and expressed his disappointment by calling the Scottish people 'Ninety minute patriots'.

Many political analysts recognize that the commitment of ordinary members and leaders to independence is so strong that comments about tensions are somewhat overblown and driven by the wishful thinking of unionist sympathisers.

European affiliation

The SNP retains close links with Plaid Cymru, its counterpart in Wales. MPs of both parties co-operate closely with each other. They work as a single group within the House of Commons, and were involved in joint campaigning during the 2005 General Election campaign. Both the SNP and Plaid Cymru are members of the European Free Alliance (EFA), a European political party for regionalist national-level political parties. The EFA co-operates with the larger European Green Party to form the Group of The Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.

Prior to its affiliation with The Greens–European Free Alliance, the SNP had previously been allied with the European Progressive Democrats (until 1984), Rainbow Group (1989-1994) and European Radical Alliance (1994-1999).

Ministers and spokespeople

Scottish Parliament

Portfolio	SNP Spokesperson
Leader of the Scottish National Party First Minister of Scotland Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland	Rt Hon Alex Salmond MSP
Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy	Nicola Sturgeon MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Parliamentary Business and Government Strategy	Bruce Crawford MSP
Minister for Public Health	Michael Matheson MSP
Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sport	Shona Robison MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Parliamentary Business and Government Strategy	Bruce Crawford MSP
Minister for Parliamentary Business	Brian Adam MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth	John Swinney MSP
Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism	Fergus Ewing MSP
Minister for Local Government and Planning	Aileen Campbell MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning	Michael Russell MSP
Minister for Skills and Lifelong Learning	Alasdair Allan MSP
Minister for Children and Young People	Angela Constance MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure and Capital Investment	Alex Neil MSP
Minister for Housing and Transport	Keith Brown MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Justice	Kenny MacAskill MSP
Minister for Community Safety	Roseanna Cunningham MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment	Richard Lochhead MSP
Minister for the Environment and Climate Change	Stewart Stevenson MSP
Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs	Fiona Hyslop MSP

Westminster Parliament

Portfolio	SNP Spokesperson
Westminster Group Leader Defence and Foreign Affairs	Angus Robertson MP
Deputy Group Leader and Chief Whip HM Treasury and Economic Affairs	Stewart Hosie MP
Culture and Sport; Constitution	Peter Wishart MP
Business; Energy and Climate Change	Michael Weir MP
Transport; Constitutional Reform	Angus MacNeil MP
Fisheries; International Development; Women; Work and Pensions	Eilidh Whiteford MP

European Parliament

Portfolio	SNP Spokesperson
President of the Scottish National Party Fisheries; Regional Development	Ian Hudghton MEP
Agriculture and Rural Development	Alyn Smith MEP

Elected representatives (current)

Members of the Scottish Parliament

Members of Parliament

Members of the European Parliament

Councillors

The SNP has more than 360 councillors in Local Government elected from the Scottish local elections, 2007.^[17]

Electoral performance

Election^[18]	Percentage of Scottish vote	Seats won	Additional Information
1935 General Election	1.1%	0 seats
1945 General Election	1.2%	0 seats
1950 General Election	0.4%	0 seats
1951 General Election	0.3%	0 seats
1955 General Election	0.5%	0 seats
1959 General Election	0.5%	0 seats
1964 General Election	2.4%	0 seats
1966 General Election	5.0%	0 seats
1970 General Election	11.4%	1 seat
1974 General Election (Feb)	21.9%	7 seats
1974 General Election (Oct)	30.4%	11 seats	High water mark, until 2007. Increased presence contributed to Labour holding a devolution referendum in 1979.
1974 Regional Council Election	12.6%	18 seats
1974 District Council Election	12.4%	62 seats
1977 District Council Election	24.2%	170 seats
1978 Regional Council Election	20.9%	18 seats
1979 General Election	17.3%	2 seats	Poor performance compared to the two 1974 elections caused internal ructions during the 1980s.
1979 European Parliament Election	19.4%	1 seat
1980 District Council Election	15.5%	54 seats
1982 Regional Council Election	13.4%	23 seats
1983 General Election	11.7%	2 seats
1984 District Council Election	11.7%	59 seats
1984 European Parliament Election	17.8%	1 seat
1986 Regional Council Election	18.2 %	36 seats
1987 General Election	14.0%	3 seats
1988 District Council Election	21.3%	113 seats
1989 European Parliament Election	25.6%	1 seat
1990 Regional Council Election	21.8%	42 seats
1992 General Election	21.5%	3 seats
1992 District Council Election	24.3%	150 seats
1994 European Parliament Election	32.6%	2 seats
1994 Regional Council Election	26.8%	73 seats
1995 Council Areas Election	26.1%	181 seats
1997 General Election	22.1%	6 seats
1999 Scottish Parliament Election	28.7%	35 seats (including 7 First Past the Post seats)	First election to the re-constituted Scottish Parliament. Finished second to Labour and became the official opposition to the coalition of Labour and Liberal Democrats.
1999 Council Areas Election	28.9%	201 seats
1999 European Parliament Election	27.2%	2 seats
2001 General Election	20.1%	5 seats
2003 Scottish Parliament Election	23.8%	27 seats (including 9 First Past the Post seats)
2003 Council Areas Election	24.1%	181 seats
2004 European Parliament Election	19.7%	2 seats
2005 General Election	17.7%	6 seats
2007 Scottish Parliament Election	32.9%	47 seats (including 21 First Past the Post seats)	Largest party in the Scottish Parliament; formed the Scottish Government.
2007 Council Areas Election	29.7% (of seats)	363 seats	Largest party in local government (first ever Scottish local elections to be held under the Single Transferable Vote).
2009 European Parliament Election	29.1%	2 seats	The first European Parliament elections in which the SNP won the most votes within Scotland^[19]
2010 General Election	19.9%	6 seats
2011 Scottish Parliament Election	45.4%	69 seats (including 53 First Past the Post seats)	Formed the first majority Scottish Government.

Criticism

Accusations of Anglophobia

The SNP have been accused of being Anglophobic. In 2000, the Labour Party said that two SNP members of the Scottish Parliament were anti-English after they "registered their support for Germany's (2006 Football World Cup) bid on its official website".^[20] The SNP responded that they "have no position on where the World Cup is held" and that it was "silly to describe the website entry as anti-English".^[20]

Prominent figures in Scottish politics such as Labour's George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock^{[citation needed]} and the Liberal Democrats' Jamie Stone^[21] (and subsequently Danny Alexander^{[citation needed]} - the current Chief Secretary to the Treasury) have publicly apologised for calling the SNP "xenophobic". SNP MSP Ian McKee has by contrast pointed out his own status in the Scottish Parliament chamber as an Englishman^[22] as evidence of there being no such anti-English feeling. Indeed, McKee is one of six SNP MSPs born in England, along with other prominent figures such as Christine Grahame and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning Mike Russell.

Accusations of "cash for policies"

The party has been criticised over a £500,000 donation from the socially conservative transport businessman Brian Souter. One month later, in April 2007, the SNP's commitment (made at the party's 2006 conference) to re-regulate the bus network was not included in their 2007 manifesto, although the SNP denies any direct link.^[23] Opposition politicians suggested that the donation and policy shift were linked and that it was a case of "cash for policies", although no official accusations have been made.^[24]

Brian Souter went on to make a further donation of £125,000 to the SNP, making him their single biggest donor.^[25] Souter made approaches to the SNP government for a £3 million subsidy for his company, Stagecoach, to develop a hovercraft service between Kirkcaldy and Portobello in Scotland.^[26] The service had already received subsidy from the previous Labour administration for the pilot scheme, but was put on hold pending "clarification" of the public sector's involvement.^[27]

References

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^ "SNP accused of dumping bus plan to please millionaire backer". Sundayherald.com. 21 April 2007. http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1346656.0.snp_accused_of_dumping_bus_plan_to_please_millionaire_backer.php. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
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^ Paul Hutcheon (3 November 2007). "SNP donor in £3.3m hovercraft subsidy plea". Sundayherald.com. http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1807832.0.snp_donor_in_3_3m_hovercraft_subsidy_plea.php. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
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External links

Scottish National Party - Official website
SNP Conference Autumn 2009 - BBC Coverage
SNP Manifesto - 2007 Holyrood General Election
SNP Manifesto - 2005 Westminster General Election^{[dead link]} 'Make Scotland Matter'
Scots Independent newspaper website 'Flag in the Wind'
The Scotsman newspaper - newsfeeds - 'SNP' - XML, RSS, JavaScript
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections Division Collection of material relating to the Scottish National Party
Scottish Politics - Information about election results in Scotland.
European Free Alliance website
The Greens/European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament - website
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v d e Political parties in the United Kingdom

House of Commons (650)	Conservatives (306) Labour (258, including 28 Labour Co-operative)^* Liberal Democrats (57) DUP (8) SNP (6) Sinn Féin^† (5) Plaid Cymru (3) SDLP (3) Greens (E&W) (1) Alliance (1) Independent (1)

House of Lords (789)	Labour (243) Conservatives (218) crossbenchers (182) Liberal Democrats (92) Lords Spiritual (26) DUP (4) UUP (4) UKIP (2) Plaid Cymru (1) Conservative Independent (1) Independent Labour (1) non-affiliated (16)

Scottish Parliament (129)	SNP (69) Scottish Labour (37) Scottish Conservatives (15) Scottish Liberal Democrats (5) Scottish Greens (2) Independent (1)

National Assembly for Wales (60)	Welsh Labour (30) Welsh Conservatives (14) Plaid Cymru (11) Welsh Liberal Democrats (5)

Northern Ireland Assembly (108)	DUP (38) Sinn Féin (29) UUP (16) SDLP (14) Alliance (8) Greens (NI) (1) Traditional Unionist Voice (1) Independent (1)

London Assembly (25)	Conservatives (11) Labour (8) Liberal Democrats (3) Greens (E&W) (2) Independent (1)

European Parliament (72 of 736)	Conservatives (ECR, 25, including 1 UCUNF)^‡ Labour (PES, 13) UKIP (EFD, 13) Liberal Democrats (ELDR, 11) BNP (Non-Inscrit, 2) Greens (E&W) (EGP, 2) SNP (EFA, 2) Plaid Cymru (EFA, 1) Sinn Féin (EUL-NGL, 1) DUP (Non-Inscrit, 1)

Other national and regional parties	32CSM Christian Peoples Alliance Christian Communist Party of Britain Éirígí English Democrats Independent Working Class Association IKHH Liberal Mebyon Kernow National Front Official Monster Raving Loony Progressive Unionist Republican Sinn Féin Respect Scottish Socialist Social Democratic Socialist Labour Socialist Socialist (N. Ireland) Socialist Workers Solidarity Workers' Party of Ireland

Notes: ^*Co-operative Party candidates stand jointly with the Labour Party as “Labour and Co-operative Party” candidates. ^†Although Sinn Féin have five elected members and have offices at Westminster, they are abstentionist and therefore do not take their seats. ^‡Some Ulster Unionist Party candidates stand jointly with the Conservative Party as "Ulster Conservatives and Unionists – New Force" candidates.

Portal:Politics List of political parties by representation Politics of the United Kingdom

v d e Nationalism in the United Kingdom

Articles	British nationalism - British unionism - Britishness • Cornish nationalism • English nationalism - English independence • Irish nationalism - Irish republicanism - Irish unification • Scottish independence - Scottish republicanism • Ulster loyalism - Ulster nationalism • Welsh nationalism - Welsh independence

Political parties	British: British National Party • Democratic Unionist Party • Progressive Unionist Party • Traditional Unionist Voice • Ulster Unionist Party • UK Independence Party - Cornish: Mebyon Kernow - English: English Democrats - Irish: Sinn Féin • Social Democratic and Labour Party - Scottish: Scottish National Party • Scottish Socialist Party • Solidarity - Welsh: Plaid Cymru • Cymru Annibynnol

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