Political Party in Scotland, Labour in Scotland.

The Pensioners Party is a minor political party in Scotland. They were formed to contest the Scottish Parliamentary Election. They were formed with the intention of getting a better deal for pensioners in Scotland. They polled poorly in the 2003 election, although the SSCUP managed to get one candidate elected to the Scottish Parliament.

The Workers Party of Scotland was a small Marxist-Leninist political party based in Scotland. It was founded in 1967 and campaigned for Scottish independence.

The Communist Party of Scotland (CPS) was established in 1991 when the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was disbanded and re-formed as the Democratic Left think-tank. Many Communists in Scotland disagreed with this decision and instead set up the CPS, with its headquarters in Partick, Glasgow. Some 280 former members of the CPGB in Scotland joined the new party including Mick McGahey, who had been a leading member of the National Union of Mineworkers in the 1970s and 1980s. Former CPGB General Secretary Gordon McLennan is also associated with the party

The Labour Party of Scotland were a small political party active in Dundee, Scotland. They were formed as a left-wing breakaway from the Scottish National Party (SNP) and contested the 1973 Dundee East by-election, where the number of votes they gathered were greater than the Labour Party majority over the SNP candidate Gordon Wilson. The party was wound up not long after the by-election without having made any substantial political impact, with many of their members returning to the SNP. Former SNP leader, William Wolfe has stated that this breakaway was more to do with local personal political ambition than over any ideological dispute.

The National Party of Scotland (NPS) (NPS) was formed in 1928 after John MacCormick of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association (GUSNA) called a meeting of all those favouring the establishment of a party favouring Scottish independence. The meeting was presided over by Robert Cunninghame-Graham, who had been a Liberal Party, then Scottish Labour Party (1888-1893) politician.

Fishing Party Largely a single-issue party, their formation was prompted by those involved in the fishing industry angry at cuts in the amount of fish they were being allowed to catch as a result of the European Union Single Fisheries Policy. The rationale behind their formation was that they were in the best position to represent the fishing industry as they were part of it themselves.

The Unionist Party, referred to as the Scottish Unionist Party outside Scotland itself, was the main Tory political party in Scotland between 1912 and 1965. Use of the terms 'Tory', and 'Unionist', as opposed to 'Conservative', is a consequence of the Scottish Unionists eschewing the name 'Conservative', until 1965. Even today the official website of the Scottish Conservative Party sometimes employs the name 'Scottish Torie.