David Thompson (Scottish politician)

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David Thompson is a Scottish politician. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was elected to the Scottish Parliament to represent Highlands and Islands at the 2007 election.

Thompson received some media attention in the aftermath of the 2007 election because he pointed out to the returning officer that the number of additional members for each party had been wrongly calculated^[1]. The initial calculation would have given Labour four additional seats and the SNP none, which would have resulted in Labour gaining a plurality and winning the election. After Thompson challenged this calculation and the figures were correctly calculated, Labour were allocated three seats and the SNP two. This resulted in the SNP gaining a plurality of one seat and enabled them to form the Scottish Executive.

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^ Grandfather was SNP election hero BBC News, 5 May 2007

v • d • e Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Highlands and Islands region

Elected in the 2007 election SNP (6 seats), Lib Dem (4 seats), Labour (3 seats), Conservative (2 seats)

Constituency MSPs	Jim Mather (SNP, Argyll and Bute) • Jamie Stone (Lib Dem, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) • Fergus Ewing (SNP, Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) • Richard Lochhead (SNP, Moray) • Liam McArthur (Lib Dem, Orkney) • John Farquhar Munro (Lib Dem, Ross, Skye and Inverness West) • Tavish Scott (Lib Dem, Shetland) • Alasdair Allan (SNP, Western Isles)

Additional Members	Rob Gibson (SNP) • Rhoda Grant (Lab) • Jamie McGrigor (Con) • Peter Peacock (Lab) • Mary Scanlon (Con) • David Stewart (Lab) • David Thompson (SNP)