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 * Scottish Government
 * Government of the 3rd Scottish Parliament
 * List of Scottish Governments
 * Scottish Cabinet

Groups
Subdivisions_of_Scotland

* Aberdeen * Aberdeenshire * Angus * Argyll and Bute * Clackmannanshire * Comhairle nan Eilean Siar * Dumfries and Galloway * Dundee City * East Ayrshire * East Dunbartonshire * East Lothian * East Renfrewshire * Edinburgh * Falkirk * Fife * Glasgow * Highland * Inverclyde * Midlothian * Moray * North Ayrshire * North Lanarkshire * Perth and Kinross * Renfrewshire * Scottish Borders * South Ayrshire * South Lanarkshire * Stirling * West Dunbartonshire * West Lothian

http://www.scotsindependent.org/branches.htm 

Disc
http://www.alba.org.uk/timeline/2007to2011.html

http://aberdeensnp.org/node/9

http://www.scotsindependent.org/2004/041001/

http://www.scotsindependent.org/features/orgs/snp.htm

http://www.scotsindependent.org/2002/021004/index.htm

http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/gazette/snp1.html

http://www.scottishreview.net/DavidTorrance74.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7655082.stm

http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/obituaries/william-wolfe-politician-and-accountant-1.1014705

http://westaberdeenshiresnp.org/index.php?child=student

The SNP was formed in 1934 after a merger between the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party. The party is committed to securing an independent parliament for Scotland.

The SNP won their first parliamentary seat in 1945 when Dr Robert McIntyre was returned at a by-election for Motherwell. However the SNP had no great electoral success until the 1960s. In November 1967 Winnie Ewing captured Hamilton from Labour and the SNP had a high profile in the 1968 local elections. By 1974 the SNP had eleven seats in Parliament and polled over 30 per cent of the vote in Scotland. From this point there was a waning in SNP fortunes. In the 1979 general election their share of the poll dropped to 17 per cent and they lost all but two seats.

In 1990 Alex Salmond became party leader, confirming the SNP as a left-of-centresocial democratic party. The SNP accepted the Scottish Parliament as a step towards complete independence, within a European framework. It obtained six seats at Westminster in the general election of 1997, and 35 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament elected in 1999. The following year John Swinney replaced Salmond as party leader, but suffered a setback in the 2003 elections. In 2005, with Salmond once more as leader, the party returned six members to Westminster.



http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-01/const-51.html

www.susa.info/data/susa/downloads/pdf/Getting%2520involved%2520in%2520the%2520SNP.pdf

http://www.gerryhassan.com/?p=687

http://www.snp.org/node/10145

www.parliamentaryrecord.com

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/coffey_danny.htm

http:// www.lonympics.co.uk/snp.htm http://inchbrakie.tripod.com/snpdingwall/id8.html

http://www.snp.org/node/11811

http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/link-suggestion/wpcd_2008-09_augmented/wp/s/Scottish_National_Party.htm

Third Party Decline in the UK: The SNP and SDP in Comparative Perspective

www.scottishaffairs.org/backiss/pdfs/sa45/sa45_Farquharson.pdf

History of the Scottish National Party peter lynch

http://www.snp.org/node/8708

Social and Economic Inquiry Society of Scotland

W1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_MacRae

http://inchbrakie.tripod.com/snpdingwall/id8.html www.lonympics.co.uk/snp.htm

http://www.scotsindependent.org/about_us.htm

http://www.parliamentaryrecord.com/content/profiles/mp/Alex-Salmond/Banff-and-Buchan/466

http://www.thinkscotland.org/change-scotland/articles.html?read_full=10675&article=www.thinkscotland.org

www.scottishconservatives.com/downloads/building-for-scotland.pdf


 * www.jmsc09551.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Forward%2520for%2520a%2520Republican%2520SNP.pdf

http://www.alba.org.uk/polls/030804.html

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp98/rp98-001.pdf

http://www.psa.ac.uk/cps/2002/clark.pdf

http://nicentreright.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/why-regional-identity-is-a-much-bigger-problem-for-the-conservatives-than-labour/

http://www.scotsindependent.org/2003/030829/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/14/standing-order-14-debate

http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Brian_Monteith

http://news.stv.tv/politics/212030-scottish-tory-review-highlights-significant-weaknesses-in-party/



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/political-parties-turn-to-perks-to-woo-members-1444475.html

www.polity.co.uk/kingdom/pdfs/010.pdf

W2
www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/Modern_Studies_AH_Specimen.pdf

The SNP consists of local branches of party members. Those branches then form an association in the constituency they represent. There are also 8 Regional Associations to which the branches and constituency associations in each can send delegates. The SNP’s policy structure is developed at its Annual National Conference and its regular National Council meetings. The SNP parliamentarians (Scottish, Westminster and European) and councillors have representation on the NEC, as do the Trade Union Group and the youth wing/student wing jointly.

The SNP’s leadership is invested in its National Executive Committee (NEC) which is made up of the party’s elected office bearers and 10 elected members (voted for at conference).

http://www.palgrave.com/politics/mcgarvey/site/chapter3.html

http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2006/09/should-conservatives-be-more-active-in.html

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/swinney-is-still-on-honeymoon-with-the-voters-snp-is-braced-for-conference-showdown-1.111850

http://www.scotsindependent.org/2003/030919/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/apr/17/uk.conservatives



http://news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote2001/hi/english/voting_system/newsid_1198000/1198840.stm

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/snp-shoots-at-its-foot-party-could-count-the-cost-of-list-candidates-brouhaha-1.146999

www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/SQPModernStudiesAH.pdf http://bidforfreedom.blogspot.com/2008/10/snp-conference.html

idisk.mac.com/royce.koop-Public/Docs/kooprepresentation2010.pdf

The SNP's finances are in a robust state





www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2010/Koop.pdf

http://www.alba.org.uk/nextge/eastlothian.html

http://www.alba.org.uk/nextwest/eastlothian.html