Tommy Sheridan won a seat for the Scottish Socialist Party to the Scottish Parliament. Tommy was one of the key leaders of the anti Poll Tax movement in the early 1990s, and is a part of the majority wing of the SSP which is affiliated to the Committee for a Workers International. He received 5,611 constituency votes, coming third (beating the Tories and Lib-Dems). The SPP got 11,000 West Scotland regional votes (approx.) on the regional additional members' list, which were enoug=h to elect Tommy. New Labour is the largest party in the Parliament, with the SNP second and Liberals third. An expelled Labour Left MP standing as an independent won the other non-main party seat in the Parliament. Karen McKay won a second seat for the Socialist Party on Coventry Council, joining Dave Nellist. In a first past the post system she won 1350 votes against 1250 for New Labour and 120 for Scargill's SLP. Militant PO Box 1015, Collingwood, Victoria 3066, Australia Phone: (03) 9654 3636 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://werple.net.au/~militant Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
