Inverclyde is a county constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering the entire council area of Inverclyde.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 141. Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 29.
The seat was created by the Second Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries in 2025, and was first contested at the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. It replaced the former Greenock and Inverclyde, which was abolished at this review. It also includes the village of Kilmacolm, which was formerly in the Renfrewshire North and West constituency.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 89-97.
The current member is Stuart McMillan of the Scottish National Party (SNP), who was previously the member for Greenock and Inverclyde.
Electoral region
The other nine constituencies of the West Scotland region are: Cunninghame North, Cunninghame South, Clydebank and Milngavie, Dumbarton, Eastwood, Paisley, Renfrewshire North and Cardonald, Renfrewshire West and Levern Valley, and Strathkelvin and Bearsden. The region covers the whole of the council areas of East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, and West Dunbartonshire; and parts of the council areas of Argyll and Bute, East Ayrshire, and Glasgow.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 143.
Constituency boundaries and council area The Inverclyde constituency is coterminous with the Inverclyde council area. It covers all the electoral wards of the Inverclyde Council in full.
Election results 2020s
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See also List of Scottish Parliament constituencies and electoral regions (2026–)