Updated: May 9, 2021, 9:52 pm © DCT Media Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Six Scottish parliamentary elections have now been held since the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. In the past two elections, the SNP has fallen just short of the 65 seats needed for a majority – after winning 69 in the 2011 election. Prior to this, a coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats made up the government. The system for Scottish elections is the Additional Member System (AMS), where voters are given two ...