Highlands and Islands list MSPs confirmed after late declaration

Shetland’s Reform UK candidate Vic Currie (here seen with party leader Nigel Farage in Lerwick last month, has been elected one of the seven list MSPs for the Highlands and Islands Photo: Malcolm Younger

Shetland’s Reform UK candidate Vic Currie (here seen with party leader Nigel Farage in Lerwick last month, has been elected one of the seven list MSPs for the Highlands and Islands Photo: Malcolm Younger

AFTER a long wait the seven list MSPs for the Highlands and Islands have been announced.

They are: Vic Currie (Reform), Max Bannerman (Reform), Ariane Burgess (Greens), Kristopher Leask (Greens), Tim Eagle (Conservatives), Morven May MacCallum (Liberal Democrats), Maree Todd (SNP).

The regional element uses a different voting system and aims to give parties who win less constituency seats a greater chance of securing regional MSPs.

The final declaration from Inverness, made at 1.15am on Saturday morning, means that the composition of the new Scottish Parliament is now known.

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The SNP, with 58 MSPs, is the largest party by far but they have fallen short of winning an overall majority.

Labour and Reform have both won 17 seats, with the Scottish Greens securing 15 seats. The Conservatives have 12 and the Liberal Democrats have secured ten.

It comes after the SNP’s Hannah Mary Goodlad won the Shetland constituency earlier today with what has been called a “seismic” result for the party in the Liberal Democrat stronghold.