{"id":574918,"date":"2026-05-09T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574918\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:26:17","slug":"supporters-of-independence-from-great-britain-have-won-the-scottish-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574918\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporters of independence from Great Britain have won the Scottish parliamentary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish National Party (SNP), which advocates for independence from the United Kingdom, has won the Scottish parliamentary elections. It secured 58 seats, UNN reports with reference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.scot\/msps\/current-party-balance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to the Scottish Parliament website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Details<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the Reform UK party received 17 seats in parliament, and the Scottish Labour Party also received 17 seats.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778336152-4667-large.webp.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Green Party has 15 MSPs; the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party received 12 seats, and the Scottish Liberal Democrats received 10.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Information<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish National Party is a centre-left political party that advocates for independence from the United Kingdom. The party has existed since 1934: its policy is based on European social democracy.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder<\/p>\n<p>Labour <a href=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/news\/u-velykii-brytanii-leiborysty-zaznaiut-porazky-na-mistsevykh-vyborakh-starmer-zaiavyv-shcho-zalyshytsia-na-posadi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered defeat in local elections<\/a> in the UK due to political U-turns and the war with Iran. Nigel Farage&#8217;s party \u2014 Reform UK \u2014 won hundreds of new mandates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scottish National Party (SNP), which advocates for independence from the United Kingdom, has won the Scottish parliamentary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}