in the 2007 elections the SNP staged a historic upset, winning the most seats in the Scottish Parliament to end some 50 years of Labour Party dominance in Scotland. The SNP, which captured 47 seats to Labour’s 46, subsequently formed a minority administration, and Salmond was elected first minister of Scotland
Whether by accident or design there appears to be an anomaly in the Scottish Electoral system ,which in my opinion needs to have someone in authority appointed to investigate, and report on ‘why at the General Election it only took around 30,000 Scottish votes to get an SNP candidate elected to Parliament ,whereas it took around 400,000 Scottish votes for a Labour candidate to become elected, and 300000 Scottish votes for 1 Tory candidate to be elected and some 293000 Scottish votes to get 1 Lib Dem candidate elected?
Looking at the figurers, it looks more by design than by accident and should indeed be investigated. I wonder if Labour or anyother party picked up on this.