With just under a year to go until the Holyrood 2026 elections, 32 MSPs so far have announced their intention to step down:

SNP

  • Annabelle Ewing
  • Audrey Nicoll
  • Bill Kidd
  • Christine Grahame
  • Elena Whitham
  • Evelyn Tweed
  • Fergus Ewing
  • Fiona Hyslop
  • Gordon MacDonald
  • Graeme Dey
  • Humza Yousaf
  • James Dornan
  • Joe FitzPatrick
  • Mairi Gougeon
  • Michael Matheson
  • Michelle Thomson
  • Natalie Don-Innes
  • Nicola Sturgeon
  • Richard Lochhead
  • Rona Mackay
  • Ruth Maguire
  • Shona Robison
  • Willie Coffey

Conservatives

  • Douglas Ross
  • Edward Mountain
  • Liz Smith
  • Maurice Golden
  • Oliver Mundell

Labour

  • Alex Rowley
  • Richard Leonard

Liberal Democrats

  • Beatrice Wishart

Independents

  • John Mason

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