{"id":324,"date":"2021-05-13T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/?p=324"},"modified":"2021-05-13T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:16:08","slug":"scottish-parliament-election-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/2021\/05\/13\/scottish-parliament-election-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Parliament Election 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The results of the Scottish Parliament Election 2021 are in&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The SNP has won with 64 seats in the election. The figure marked one short of a majority, but one more than they won back in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The success of the Scottish Greens, who won eight seats (an increase of two from 2016) means that there is a pro-independence majority between the two parties.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Conservatives remain the party in opposition with 31 seats while Labour is in third place with 22.\u00a0The Liberal Democrats have lost a seat and now have four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the Scottish Parliament Election 2021 are in&#8230; The SNP has won with 64 seats in the election. The figure marked one short of a majority, but one more than they won back in 2016. The success of the Scottish Greens, who won eight seats (an increase of two from 2016) means that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/2021\/05\/13\/scottish-parliament-election-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scottish Parliament Election 2021&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/thssocialsubjects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}