Central Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

Central Scotland
electoral region for the Scottish Parliament
Central Scotland shown within Scotland
Population	669,424 (2019)[1]
Current electoral region
Created	1999
MSPs	Scottish National Party 9 Conservative 3 Labour 3 Green 1
Council areas	Falkirk North Lanarkshire South Lanarkshire (part)
Constituencies	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill

Central Scotland (Meadhan-Alba in Gaelic) is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament which were created in 1999. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elects a total of 16 MSPs.