Members are elected for four year terms under the Additional Member System of proportional representation.

Two " others " were elected as Additional Members: Margo MacDonald ( an independent ) and John Swinburne, who represented the SSCUP.

Mitchell is also a keen supporter of the Additional Member System, ( the electoral system used in elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly ), and called a Private Members ' Debate on this issue on 1 December 2009.

* Brother Bear-Inuit Tribe Members, Additional Voices

Additional House Members joined soon thereafter, including Major Owens ( D-NY ), Nydia Velázquez ( D-NY ), David Bonior ( D-MI ), Bob Filner ( D-CA ), Barney Frank ( D-MA ), Maurice Hinchey ( D-NY ), Jim McDermott ( D-WA ), Jerrold Nadler ( D-NY ), Patsy Mink ( D-HI ), George Miller ( D-CA ), Pete Stark ( D-CA ), John Olver ( D-MA ), Lynn Woolsey ( D-CA ), and Nancy Pelosi ( D-CA ).

Stewart Maxwell ( born December 24, 1963 in Glasgow, Scotland ) was the Minister for Communities and Sport from 2007 – 2009 and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the West of Scotland, being elected as a Scottish National Party ( SNP ), Additional Members System member at the 2003 election.

Previously she had represented the SNP as an Additional Members System member for North East Scotland, having been elected in the 1999 election.

There are also International Members ( mostly from the Commonwealth ) and a number of Additional Members who are elected as the head teachers of a limited number of state schools.

Elected in first election to the newly re-established Scottish Parliament he was elected as one of five SNP MSPs to represent Central Scotland through the Additional Members System.

The Additional Member System used to elect Members of the Scottish Parliament makes it difficult for a single party to have an absolute majority.

Additional Members ( Sectoral ) November 25, 1975