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They are overall centre-left, and sometimes considered big-tent, advocating social democracy, nuclear disarmament and closer ties to the European Union.
They form the Scottish government, and are now led by Scotland's First Minister, John Swinney.
However the party won 18 seats in the Scottish Parliament in the 1999 election due to proportional representation.
[citation needed] They first overtook the Conservatives as Scotland's largest party at the 1959 general election.
In 1997, the UK Labour Party under Tony Blair offered Scotland a referendum on devolution which was passed with around 74% of the electorate in favour.
Subsequently, they were led by Jim Murphy, Kezia Dugdale and Richard Leonard.
The party promotes green politics, Scottish independence, equality and radical democracy.
She resigned from the party in November 2020, citing differences with the new leader Douglas Ross before joining.
In the run up to the 2021 Scottish Parliament election there was a succession of SNP representatives defecting to the party.
The party failed to win any seats in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election,[3] after attracting only 1.7% of the vote.