Scotland (Scots: Scotland, Scottish Gaelic: Alba [ˈal̪ˠapə]) was a constituency of the European Parliament created in 1999. It elected between eight and six MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation every 5 years from 1999 until 2020, when the constituency was abolished after the United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020.