Holyrood, made browsable

The Fun Corner

Take the data less seriously. Mood ring, this-day-in-Holyrood, Hall of Fame, top talkers, random surprises, and a few jokes.

129
Current MSPs
416
MSPs ever elected
14
Parties on record
Chamber mood ring

Hive mind

Across the last 60 divisions, parties voted with their majority 99% of the time.

Below 80% would mean the chamber is in genuine open rebellion. Holyrood almost never gets there.

I'm feeling parliamentary

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Each click jumps somewhere new in the Holyrood corpus.

This day in Holyrood history

What happened on 15 November in past years?

Motions lodged on this day

Divisions decided on this day

Hall of Fame

Title-holders, automatically awarded

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Longest-serving sitting MSP
Baillie, Jackie
first elected 06 May 1999
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Most divergent voting pair
Cameron, Donald & Slater, Lorna
agreed on just 13.1% of 548 shared divisions
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Most rebellious sitting MSP
McNeill, Pauline
0.7% rebellion across 1,631 divisions
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Most motions lodged
Dey, Graeme
1,715 all-time
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Most prolific speaker
Grahame, Christine
34,319 contributions to the Official Report
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Most-signed petition
Petition by Cancer Research UK, urging politicians to plan now for the future of cancer. Specifically in Scotland, calling on politicians to update the Cancer in Scotland strategy beyond its current end date of 2011 up to 2020 and beyond.
268,738 signatures
Top Talkers

Most contributions to the Official Report since 2021

  1. 1. McArthur, Liam 11,023 contributions · 5,990k chars
  2. 2. Carson, Finlay 8,582 contributions · 2,892k chars
  3. 3. Burgess, Ariane 7,490 contributions · 3,169k chars
  4. 4. Gibson, Kenneth 7,108 contributions · 3,408k chars
  5. 5. Kerr, Stephen 6,564 contributions · 2,944k chars
  6. 6. Swinney, John 5,868 contributions · 5,549k chars
  7. 7. Martin, Gillian 5,550 contributions · 3,586k chars
  8. 8. Fairlie, Jim 4,341 contributions · 2,642k chars
  9. 9. Simpson, Graham 4,157 contributions · 1,706k chars
  10. 10. Ruskell, Mark 4,006 contributions · 2,202k chars
Catchphrase wall

Things each MSP says way more than the rest of the chamber

"women staff"
— Mackay, Gillian · 32×
"spokesperson group"
— McMahon, Siobhan · 19×
"name tom"
— Steel, Sir David · 239×
"lung health"
— Harper, Emma · 131×
"nation's wealth"
— Wilson, Andrew · 21×
"single police"
— Lamont, John · 41×
"rttemberg"
— Harvie, Christopher · 58×
"lockerbie"
— Mundell, David · 55×
"deal petition"
— McAveety, Mr Frank · 168×
"note clerk"
— Pentland, John · 91×
"sue lothian"
— Webber, Sue · 69×
"malicious"
— Kerr, Liam · 79×
More fun

Other ways to play

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Which MSP are you?
Vote on 12 close divisions, get matched to your nearest MSP.
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Voting network
Force-clustered map of who actually votes together.
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Holyrood Bingo
FMQ trope generator. Bring it to the next sitting.