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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Chapters: Scottish National Party, Referendum Bill, 2010, History of the Scottish National Party, Scottish Socialist Party, It's Scotland's oil, 79 Group, A Constitution for a Free Scotland, Moray by-election, 2006, National Conversation, Scots Wha Hae, Free Scotland Party, Scottish Republican Socialist Party, Young Scots for Independence, Scottish Labour Party, Federation of Student Nationalists, Scottish Jacobite Party, Glasgow Govan by-election, 1988, Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association, Henry Cunison Rankin, Radio Free Scotland, Orkney and Shetland Movement, Scottish Party, 55 Group, Scottish Enterprise Party, Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland, Scots National League, Labour Party of Scotland, SNP gradualist, The Scots Independent, SNP fundamentalist, SNP Trade Union Group, Choosing Scotland's Future. Excerpt: The Scottish National Party (SNP; Scottish Gaelic:; Scots: ) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom. The party's stated aim is "to create a just, caring and enterprising society by releasing Scotland's full potential as a sovereign state in the mainstream of modern Europe." Having won 47 of the 129 seats in the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary election, the SNP is currently the largest political party in Scotland and governs as a minority administration, with party leader Alex Salmond as First Minister. The SNP was founded in 1934, and has had continuous parliamentary representation since Winnie Ewing's groundbreaking victory at the 1967 Hamilton by-election. The SNP currently holds 6 of 59 Scottish seats in the UK Parliament and 2 of 6 Scottish seats in the European Parliament. The SNP is also currently the largest group in Scottish local government and, in coalition, forms 12 out of 32 local administrations. The SNP was formed in 1934 from the merger of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party. Professor Douglas Young, who was the leader of the Scottish National Party from 1942 to 1945 fought for the Scottish people to refuse conscription and his activities were popularly vilified as undermining the British war effort against the Nazis. Young was imprisoned for refusing to be conscripted. The SNP first won a parliamentary seat at the Motherwell by-election in 1945, but Dr Robert McIntyre MP lost the seat at the general election three months later. They next won a seat in 1967, when Winnie Ewing was the surprise winner of a by-election in the previously safe Labour seat of Hamilton. This brought the SNP to national prominence, leading to the establishment of the Kilbrandon Commission. The high point in a British General Elections thus far was when the SNP polled almost a third of all votes in Scotland at the October 1974 general election and returned 11 MPs to
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