… in the 129-seat Parliament. Four years later, in the May 2003 election, the SNP, headed by John Swinney after Salmond … fewer than it had won in 1999. After the setback in the 2003 election, Swinney resigned and Salmond returned as … vote, an increase of 9.1 percent over its vote in 2003, and 31 percent of the regional party list vote, an …