On 15 August, Dugdale was elected to lead the party, while Alex Rowley was chosen to become her deputy.

[1][2] Murphy had faced calls to resign from several MSPs, trade unions and former MPs in the wake of his party's near wipeout at the general election.

There are three sets of people who can vote: On 15 August, Dugdale was elected to lead the party, while Alex Rowley was chosen to become her deputy.

He proposed that Scottish Labour offers people who aren't members an opportunity to join the party as a supporter, so that they are eligible to vote in the leadership election.

He also argued that the problems facing Scottish Labour won't just be remedied by electing a new leader but that the party needed radical change to repair its relationship with the people in Scotland.

[4] On 13 June 2015, alongside Murphy's resignation as Leader taking effect, the Scottish Executive Committee agreed to adopt the One Member One Vote system that the UK-wide contest is using, moving away from the electoral college system that was used up until December 2014's contest.

Here is the timetable:[3] On 18 May 2015, the day after the Jim Murphy's resignation speech, the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power gave the following odds for next Scottish Labour leader: 1/2 Kezia Dugdale; 2/1 Neil Findlay; 5/1 Ken Macintosh; 10/1 Jackie Baillie; 16/1 Anas Sarwar; 20/1 Jenny Marra; 20/1 Sarah Boyack; 20/1 Gordon Brown; 25/1 Ian Murray; 25/1 Douglas Alexander; and 100/1 Ian Smart.