Meeting of the Parliament 14 May 2026 [Draft]
Voting for this round of the Deputy Presiding Officer election is now closed. I invite scrutineers to proceed to the back of the chamber for the count. Again, candidates may also observe the count.
Colleagues, you will be delighted to know that we have a result. In this round of voting for the election of the Deputy Presiding Officer, the number of votes cast for each candidate was as follows: Clare Adamson 68, Claire Baker 18, Miles Briggs 41.
Accordingly, as Clare Adamson received more votes than the total number of votes received by the other candidates, and as more than 25 per cent of members voted, Clare Adamson is elected as Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament. [Applause.]
Voting rounds will now begin for the election of the second Deputy Presiding Officer, involving all the candidates who were unsuccessful in the election of the first Deputy Presiding Officer. However, as the Presiding Officer and the first Deputy Presiding Officer come from the same political party, Stuart McMillan is not eligible to be a candidate in this election. For clarity, the candidates are: Claire Baker, Miles Briggs and Katy Clark.
There will now be a short break—that is right; you have guessed it—while ballot papers are printed. Therefore, I suspend the meeting until such time as they are printed.
18:58
Meeting suspended.
19:05
On resuming—