2007–2014 Nicola Sturgeon (Glasgow Southside) 2014–present Leader of the parliamentary party, House of Commons Donald Stewart (Western Isles), 1974–1987 Margaret Ewing (Moray), 1987–1999 Alasdair Morgan (Galloway and Upper Nithsdale), 1999–2001 Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan), 2001–2007 Angus Robertson (Moray), 2007–2017 Ian Blackford (Ross, Skye and Lochaber), 2017–2022 Stephen Flynn (Aberdeen South), 2022–present Chief Executive Officer Michael Russell, 1994–1999 Peter Murrell, 1999–present Current SNP Council Leaders Clackmannanshire: Les Sharp (Clackmannanshire West), since 2017 Dundee City: John Alexander (Strathmartine), since 2017 East Ayrshire: Douglas Reid (Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse), since 2007 East Renfrewshire: Tony Buchanan (Newton Mearns North and Neilston), since 2017 City of Edinburgh: Adam McVey (Leith), since 2017 Falkirk: Cecil Meiklejohn (Falkirk North), since 2017 Fife: David Alexander (Leven, Kennoway and Largo), since 2017 Glasgow City: Susan Aitken (Langside), since 2017 Moray: Graham Leadbitter (Elgin South), since 2018 Renfrewshire: Iain Nicolson (Erskine and Inchinnan), since 2017 South Ayrshire: Douglas Campbell (Ayr North), since 2017 South Lanarkshire: John Ross (Hamilton South), since 2017 Stirling: Scott Farmer (Stirling West), since 2017 West Dunbartonshire: Jonathon McColl (Lomond), since 2017 Scottish Parliament Members of the Scottish Parliament The SNP has formed the Scottish Government since 2007. , the Cabinet of the Scottish Government is as follows: Parliament of the United Kingdom Members of Parliament The SNP hold a majority of Scottish seats in the House of Commons, and does not take seats in the House of Lords. As of December 2022, the SNP frontbench team in the House of Commons is as follows. Local Government Councillors The SNP had 453 councillors in Local Government elected from the 2022 Scottish local elections. Electoral performance Scottish Parliament House of Commons Local councils Results by council (2022) European Parliament (1979–2020) Two-tier local councils (1975–1996) See also Bo'ness Branch SNP Culture of Scotland Politics of Scotland History of Scottish devolution It's Scotland's oil Radio Free Scotland Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament The National (Scotland) References Further reading Brand, Jack, The National Movement in Scotland, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978 Brand, Jack, 'Scotland', in Watson, Michael (ed.), Contemporary Minority Nationalism, Routledge, 1990 Winnie Ewing, Michael Russell, Stop the World; The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing Birlinn, 2004 Richard J. Finlay, Independent and Free: Scottish Politics and the Origins of the Scottish National Party 1918–1945, John Donald Publishers, 1994 Hanham, H.J., Scottish Nationalism, Harvard University Press, 1969 Christopher Harvie, Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present, Routledge