Shetland Islands (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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Shetland Islands is a county constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering the council area of Shetland. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it is also one of eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the eight constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole. The Shetland Islands constituency had been held by the Liberal Democrats since the formation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, until the current MSP Hannah Goodlad won the seat for the SNP in 2026. She succeeded previous MSP Beatrice Wishart, who won the seat at a 2019 by-election held following the resignation of former party leader Tavish Scott.

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