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The Party campaigns for an independent Scotland. It seeks to switch the focus of economic debate away from how Scotland fares as a region of the UK and towards what it could achieve as an independent nation, and as an individual member state in Europe.
An independent Scotland under the SNP would have a written constitution, put to the Scottish people in a referendum. The Parliament would be single chamber and comprise 200 MPs.
SNP MPs
At the 1992 general election, the SNP won 21.5% of the vote in Scotland (7.5% more than in 1987), and three seats. Following a by-election victory in 1995 the Party now has four representatives in Westminster:
| Roseanna Cunningham | Perth (by-election May 1995) |
| Margaret Ewing | Moray |
| Alex Salmond | Banff and Buchan (Party leader since 1990) |
| Andrew Welsh | Angus |
There are two SNP MEPs:
| Winifred Ewing | Highlands and Islands |
| Allan Macartney | North East Scotland |
Election results:
At the 1995 local elections, the SNP won control of 3 councils in Scotland, (Angus, Moray, Perthshire & Kinross), and won 182 seats in all, with a 26% share of the vote - second to Labour.
The SNP has enjoyed good results at the two Scottish by-elections since the last general election. It won 44.95% of the vote in John Smith's old constituency of Monklands East in June 1994 - almost 27% higher than its result at the 1992 general election - a swing of 19.22% from Labour to the SNP.
In May 1995 Roseanna Cunningham won the Perth and Kinross seat with 40.4% of the vote after the death of the sitting Conservative MP, Sir Nicholas Fairbairn. This represented an 11.5% swing from Con to SNP.
Party Headquarters:
6 North Charlotte Street
Edinburgh
EH2 4JH
Tel: 0131 226 3661
Internet: http://www.snp.org.uk/