The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2002

The ballot paper: regional candidates

28.—(1) The ballot of every voter at a poll for the return of regional members shall consist of a ballot paper (referred to in these Rules as a “regional ballot paper”).

(2) The only names, to be inserted in the regional ballot paper shall be the names of–

(a) the individual candidates shown in the statement required by rule 20 above; and

(b) the registered political parties shown in that statement together with the names of the candidates included in each party’s regional list as indicated in the statement made under rule 7(4) above.

(3) Every regional ballot paper shall be in the form K set out in the Appendix, and shall be printed in accordance with the directions in that form, and shall contain–

(a) the names and descriptions of the individual candidates as shown in the statement required by rule 20 above; and

(b) the names of the registered political parties referred to in paragraph (2)(b) above (being, in each case, the name by which that party wishes to be known for the purposes of the election) as shown in the statement required by rule 20 above together with the names of the candidates included in each party’s regional list.

(4) The order of the names of the registered parties, together with the candidates appearing on their regional lists, and of the individual candidates in the regional ballot paper shall be the same as in the statement required by rule 20 above.

(5) If a request has been made to the regional returning officer under rule 7(6) above that a registered party’s registered emblem (or, as the case may be, one of the party’s registered emblems) be shown on the ballot paper against that party’s name, the ballot paper shall also contain, to the right of the party’s name, that emblem.