Meet Scotland’s newly elected MEPs... and a few candidates who didn’t make it
By CHRIS McCALL
Published 27th May 2019, 13:21 BST
Updated 27th May 2019, 14:21 BST
Scotland has returned six MEPs to Brussels
It was the vote that wasn’t supposed to happen. But with the Brexit process stalled, the UK went ahead with the 2019 European Parliament elections.
Scotland returned a total of six MEPs to Brussels. But who made the cut north of the Border - and who missed out?
The Brexit party managed to repeat the success of UKIP at the last Euro elections in 2014 by returning one MEP in Scotland. Louis Stedman-Bryce, from Argyll, topped the party's list north of the Border
Alyn Smith now becomes Scotland's senior MEP, having been first elected for the SNP in 2004. The Glasgow-born former lawyer is a vocal critic of Brexit.
French-born SNP member Christian Allard was the Nationalists' second top candidate at the Euro elections. A former list MSP, he lost his seat at the 2016 elections but was elected as an Aberdeen councillor the following year
Aileen McLeod makes a return to frontline politics after becoming the SNP's third MEP. A former Scottish Government environment minister, she lost her Holyrood list seat at the 2016 elections.
