Scotland's MSPs will be sworn in at Holyrood on Thursday as the new parliament gets underway.

The 129 members will take their place in the chamber after last week's elections which saw the SNP's majority ended and the Tories beating Labour into second place.

There are 51 new parliamentarians for the 2016 session, with 78 returning after the election.

The party leaders will be invited to take the oath or make a solemn affirmation first at 9.30am, followed by members in alphabetical order.

After being called, MSPs enter the chamber and then choose whether they would like to take the oath or solemn affirmation. A member cannot take part in parliamentary proceedings until they have taken one of these.

The SNP's 63 MSPs will wear the white rose of Scotland, made famous by Hugh MacDiarmid's poem The Little White Rose, while being sworn in.

It has been worn by SNP members since the Scottish Parliament was reconvened in 1999.

They will be joined by 31 Conservatives, 24 from Labour, six Greens and the five Liberal Democrat MSPs.

The MSPs will be sworn in by current presiding officer Tricia Marwick in the Holyrood chamber. This will be the final role for Ms Marwick, who is standing down as an MSP.

The new presiding officer will then be elected, after MSPs vote for their favoured candidate.

Scottish Labour's Elaine Smith and the Scottish Conservatives' Murdo Fraser were the latest MSPs to declare their candidacy for the Scottish Parliament role, joining Tory John Scott and Labour's Ken Macintosh and Johann Lamont in the contest.