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In May 2016 the SNP won the election for the Scottish Parliament for the third straight time, though it lost its outright majority, dropping from a total of 69 seats in 2011 to 63 in 2016. Nevertheless. Nicola Sturgeon—who had succeeded Salmond as leader of the SNP and first minister in 2014—chose not to form a coalition government, opting instead for minority rule in the belief that election results were still a mandate for her party to continue in power alone. Not only did the results reveal Labour’s influence in Scotland to have ebbed even further, falling from 37 seats ...(100 of 26033 words)