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The '''first election tae the devolved [[Scots Pairlament]]''', tae fill 129 seats, wis hauden on the 6 Mey 1999. Syne the election, the [[Scots Labour Pairty]] an the [[Scots Leeberal Democrats]] greed a coalition tae lead the [[Scottish Executive]], wi Labour MSP [[Donald Dewar]] becomin [[First Meenister o Scotland]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Donald Dewar from The Gazetteer for Scotland|url=https://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst537.html|access-date=2021-01-30|website=www.scottish-places.info|language=en-gb}}</ref>

The election ootcome wisnae ower surprisin acause the [[Scots Labour Pairty]] wis still the maist popular pairty, efter thair landslide in the [[Unitit Kinrick general election, 1997|1997 Unitit Kinrick general election]]. Deed, thay wun 56 seats, maistly in thair traditional [[Central Belt]] hertlands, lackin anely nine seats fur a oweraw feck. Thair coalition pairtners, the [[Scots Leeberal Democrats]], wun 17 seats. The [[Scots National Pairty]] (SNP) haed duin weil in opinion polls aheid o the wale, whiles 40% in some ratins, but this support wisnae fund at the ballot box. The SNP wis the seicont mucklest pairty wi 35 seats, whilk wis still thair headmaist result syne the [[October 1974 Unitit Kinrick general election]]. The [[Scots Conservative an Unionist]] pairty didnae win ony constituency seats but wun 18 seats on Regional leets wi the [[Additional Memmer System]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=1999|title=1999 Election Results|url=https://www.parliament.scot/EducationandCommunityPartnershipsresources/1999_election_results.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617054436/http://www.parliament.scot/EducationandCommunityPartnershipsresources/1999_election_results.pdf|archive-date=2020-06-17|access-date=30 Januar 2021|website=[[Scots Pairlament]]}}</ref>

The [[Scots Socialist Pairty]] ((SSP) an the [[Scots Green Pairty]] baith got wanexpekit additional memmer seats, wi [[Robin Harper]] the first e'er eleckit Green parliamentarian in the history o the UK. [[Dennis Canavan]], that haed missed oot on bein a Labour candidate, wun the [[Falkirk West (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Falkirk West]] constituency as a independent candidate.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2014-03-21|title=The life and times of Eric Joyce - from Army major to disgraced MP|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-17313274|access-date=2021-01-30}}</ref>


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