Scottish National Party wins parliamentary election in Scotland

The ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) won the Scottish parliamentary election as the largest party with 63 seats out of the total of 129, poll results showed on Friday.

The SNP will form the Scottish government for the third time in a row, with the party's leader, Nicola Sturgeon, continuing as first minister of Scotland, though the party is short of the overall majority.

The Scottish Conservative Party garnered 31 seats, and the Scottish Labour Party won 24, while the Scottish Green Party and the Scottish Liberal Democrats won six and five, respectively.

In the last Scottish parliamentary election in 2011, the SNP won 69 seats, the Scottish Labour Party won 37 while the Scottish Conservative Party took 15.

More than four million people were registered to vote in the fifth Scottish parliamentary election since the establishment of the Scottish parliament in 1999. For the first time in a Scottish parliamentary election, 16- and 17-year-olds were eligible to vote.

The overall voter turnout was 55.6 percent, higher than the 50.4 percent in 2011.
 [Xinhua -china.org.cn]
6/5/16
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