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Voting
Luck of the draw
100
The voting system that is used to elect local councillors.
What is Single Transferrable Vote (STV).
100
The number of MSPs in the Scottish Parliament.
What is 129?
100
The number of stages a bill must goes through before it reaches the Royal Assent.
What is 3?
100
The system that is used to elect MSPs.
What is the Additional Member System (AMS).
100
The year of the last Scottish election.
What is 2011?
200
The number of local councils in Scotland.
What is 32?
200
The number of regions in Scotland.
What is 8?
200
A bill that is introduced by an MSP.
What is a Member's Bill?
200
The system that requires voters to number their preferred candidates in order (1-5).
What is Single Transferrable Vote (STV)?
200
The pro-union, anti-independence campaign launched by Conservatives and Liberal Democrats which aims to convince Scottish people 'NO'.
What is the Better Together campaign?
300
The organisation that provides local councils in Scotland with 80% of their funding.
What is the Scottish Government - UK Government.
300
The most common way for an MSP to initiate a debate within the Scottish Parliament.
What is putting forward a motion?
300
This type of bill makes up the majority of bills passed in Scottish Parliament.
What is an Executive/Government Bill?
300
The Additional Member System (AMS) is comprised of these two voting systems.
What are First Past the Post (FPTP) and Proportional Representation (PR)?
300
The number of female MSPs in the Scottish Parliament.
What is 45 female MSPs.
400
A joint working contract that is made between local council and a private sector organisation.
What is a public-private partnership (PPP)?
400
A person whose job is to persuade or pressure MSPs to follow the party line.
What is a party whip?
400
The term for changes made to a bill during the scrutinisation process.
What is an amendment?
400
The type of government that the Additional Member System is likely to produce.
What is a coalition or minority government?
400
The newspaper that supported SNP in the run up to the 2011 elections.
What is the Scottish Sun.
500
Services that a council is required to provide by law.
What are mandatory services?
500
The MSP for our school's constituency area.
Who is Marco Biagi (SNP)?
500
A bill passed in June 2012 which will end cheap alcoholic drink prices in Scotland.
What is the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) Bill?
500
The date of the 2014 referendum.
What is 18 September 2014.
500
The belief that Scotland's parliament should have greater powers but remain a part of the UK.
What is devomax?