SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE 13D

Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934(Amendment No. 8)

Westwood Holdings Group, Inc.
(Name of Issuer)

Common Stock
(Title of Class of Securities)

                                                                                             _________961765104________
(CUSIP Number)

James E. McKee
GAMCO Investors, Inc.
One Corporate Center
Rye, New York 10580-1435
(914) 921-5294
(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)

___________December 5, 2007_________
(Date of Event which Requires Filing of this Statement)

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of §§ 240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box   .

 
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CUSIP No. 961765104
1	Names of reporting persons
I.R.S. identification nos. of above persons (entities only)
GAMCO Investors, Inc.                                                                       I.D. No.  13-4007862	 	
2	Check the appropriate box if a member of a group(SEE INSTRUCTIONS)                                                                                                                                          (a)

(b)
 	 	
3	Sec use only
 	 	
4	Source of funds (SEE INSTRUCTIONS)
WC
 	 	
5	Check box if disclosure of legal proceedings is required pursuant to items 2 (d) or 2 (e)

6	Citizenship or place of organization
   New York
 	 	
Number Of
 
Shares
 
Beneficially
 
Owned
 
By Each
 
Reporting
 
Person
 
With	: 7
:
:
:	Sole voting power
 
1,211,800 (Item 5)	 	
 	: 8
:
:
:	Shared voting power
 
None	 	 	 	
 	: 9
:
:
:	Sole dispositive power
 
1,211,800 (Item 5)	 	 	 	 	 	
 	:10
:
:
:	Shared dispositive power
 
None	 	 	 	 	 	 	
11

 	Aggregate amount beneficially owned by each reporting person
 
1,211,800 (Item 5)	 	 	 	 	 	 	
12

 	Check box if the aggregate amount in row (11) excludes certain shares
(SEE INSTRUCTIONS)	 	 	 	 	 	 	
13

 	Percent of class represented by amount in row (11)
 
17.81%
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
14

 	Type of reporting person (SEE INSTRUCTIONS)
    HC, CO	 	 	 	 	 	 	

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CUSIP No. 961765104
1	Names of reporting persons
I.R.S. identification nos. of above persons (entities only)
GGCP, Inc.                                                                            I.D. No.  13-3056041	 	
2	Check the appropriate box if a member of a group(SEE INSTRUCTIONS)                                                                                                                                          (a)

(b)
 	 	
3	Sec use only
 	 	
4	Source of funds (SEE INSTRUCTIONS)
   None
 	 	
5	Check box if disclosure of legal proceedings is required pursuant to items 2 (d) or 2 (e)

6	Citizenship or place of organization
   New York
 	 	
Number Of
 
Shares
 
Beneficially
 
Owned
 
By Each
 
Reporting
 
Person
 
With	: 7
:
:
:	Sole voting power
 
None	 	
 	: 8
:
:
:	Shared voting power
 
None	 	 	 	
 	: 9
:
:
:	Sole dispositive power
 
None	 	 	 	 	 	
 	:10
:
:
:	Shared dispositive power
 
None	 	 	 	 	 	 	
11

 	Aggregate amount beneficially owned by each reporting person
 
None	 	 	 	 	 	 	
12

 	Check box if the aggregate amount in row (11) excludes certain shares
(SEE INSTRUCTIONS)   X	 	 	 	 	 	 	
13

 	Percent of class represented by amount in row (11)
 
None	 	 	 	 	 	 	
14

 	Type of reporting person (SEE INSTRUCTIONS)
    HC, CO	 	 	 	 	 	 	

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CUSIP No. 961765104
1	Names of reporting persons
I.R.S. identification nos. of above persons (entities only)
Mario J. Gabelli	 	
2	Check the appropriate box if a member of a group (SEE INSTRUCTIONS)                                                                                                                                          (a)

(b)
 	 	
3	Sec use only
 	 	
4	Source of funds (SEE INSTRUCTIONS)
 None
 	 	
5	Check box if disclosure of legal proceedings is required pursuant to items 2 (d) or 2 (e)

6	Citizenship or place of organization
   USA
 	 	
Number Of
 
Shares
 
Beneficially
 
Owned
 
By Each
 
Reporting
 
Person
 
With	: 7
:
:
:	Sole voting power
 
None	 	
 	: 8
:
:
:	Shared voting power
 
None	 	 	 	
 	: 9
:
:
:	Sole dispositive power
 
None	 	 	 	 	 	
 	:10
:
:
:	Shared dispositive power
 
None	 	 	 	 	 	 	
11

 	Aggregate amount beneficially owned by each reporting person
 
None	 	 	 	 	 	 	
12

 	Check box if the aggregate amount in row (11) excludes certain shares
(SEE INSTRUCTIONS)   X	 	 	 	 	 	 	
13

 	Percent of class represented by amount in row (11)
 
0.00%	 	 	 	 	 	 	
14

 	Type of reporting person (SEE INSTRUCTIONS)
    IN	 	 	 	 	 	 	

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Item 1.                                Security and Issuer
This Amendment No. 8 to Schedule 13D on the Common Stock of Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. (the "Issuer") is being filed on behalf of the undersigned to amend the Schedule 13D, as amended (the "Schedule 13D") which was originally filed on August 28, 2003.  Unless otherwise indicated, all capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the same meaning as set forth in the Schedule 13D.

Item 2.                                Identity and Background
(a) (b) and (c) - This statement is being filed by Mario J. Gabelli (“Mario Gabelli”), GGCP, Inc.
formerly known as Gabelli Group Capital Partners, Inc. (“GGCP”), and GAMCO Investors, Inc. formerly known as Gabelli Asset Management, Inc. (“GBL”).  The foregoing persons signing this Schedule 13D are hereafter referred to as the “Reporting Persons”.
GGCP makes investments for its own account and is the parent company of GBL.  GBL, a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is the parent company for a variety of companies engaged in the securities business.
Mario Gabelli is the majority stockholder and Chief Executive Officer of GGCP and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GBL.
GGCP and GBL are New York corporations.  GBL has its principal office at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580.  GGCP has its principal office at 140 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830.
For information required by instruction C to Schedule 13D with respect to the executive officers and directors of the foregoing entities and other related persons (collectively, “Covered Persons”), reference is made to Schedule I annexed hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
(f) - Reference is made to Schedule I hereto.

Item 5.                                Interest In Securities Of The Issuer
Item 5 to Schedule 13D is amended, in pertinent part, as follows:
(a)  	The aggregate number of Securities to which this Schedule 13D relates is 1,211,800 shares,	
representing 17.81% of the 6,802,303 shares outstanding as reported in the Issuer’s most recent Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2007.  The Reporting Persons beneficially own those Securities as follows:
 
Name	Shares of
Common Stock	% of Class of
Common	
 
GBL	 
1,211,800	 
17.81%	

Mario Gabelli and GGCP are deemed to have beneficial ownership of the Securities owned beneficially by GBL.
(b) Each of the Reporting Persons and Covered Persons has the sole power to vote or direct the vote and sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of the Securities reported for it, either for its own benefit or for the benefit of its investment clients or its partners, as the case may be, except that the power of Mario Gabelli, GBL, and GGCP is indirect with respect to Securities beneficially owned directly by other Reporting Persons.
(c) Information with respect to all transactions in the Securities which were effected during the past sixty days or since the most recent filing on Schedule 13D, whichever is less, by each of the Reporting Persons and Covered Persons is set forth on Schedule II annexed hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
(e) Not applicable.

Item 7.                                Material to be Filed as an Exhibit
The following Exhibit A is incorporated by reference to Exhibit A in the Amendment No. 2 to Schedule 13D of the Reporting Persons with respect to Lifecore Biomedical, Inc.

Exhibit A:	Powers of Attorney to Peter D. Goldstein, Christopher J. Michailoff, James E. McKee and Douglas R. Jamieson from Mario J. Gabelli

 
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Signature
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.
Dated:                      December 6, 2007

MARIO J. GABELLI
  GGCP, INC.

By:/s/ James E. McKee                                                                
     James E. McKee
     Attorney-in-Fact

GABELLI ASSET MANAGEMENT INC.

By:/s/ Douglas R. Jamieson                                                                           
     Douglas R. Jamieson
     President and Chief Operating Officer

 
 
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      Schedule I
                         Information with Respect to Executive
Officers and Directors of the Undersigned
Schedule I to Schedule 13D is amended, in pertinent part, as follows:

The following sets forth as to each of the executive officers and directors of the undersigned: his name; his business address; his present principal occupation or employment and the name, principal business and address of any corporation or other organization in which such employment is conducted.  Unless otherwise specified, the principal employer of each such individual is GAMCO Asset Management, Inc., Gabelli Funds, LLC, Gabelli Securities, Inc., Gabelli & Company, Inc., or GAMCO Investors, Inc., the business address of each of which is One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580, and each such individual identified below is a citizen of the United States.  To the knowledge of the undersigned, during the last five years, no such person has been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors), and no such person was a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction as a result of which he was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state securities law or finding any violation with respect to such laws except as reported in Item 2(d) of this Schedule 13D.	

 
 
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GGCP, Inc.
Directors:	 	
Vincent J. Amabile
 
               Mario J. Gabelli
 	Business Consultant
 
Chief Executive Officer of GGCP, Inc., and GAMCO Investors, Inc.; Director/Trustee of all registered investment companies advised by Gabelli Funds, LLC; Chief Executive Officer of LICT Corporation.
 	
Marc J. Gabelli
 	Chairman of LGL Corporation
 	
Matthew R. Gabelli
 	Vice President – Trading
Gabelli & Company, Inc.
One Corporate Center
Rye, New York 10580
 	
Charles C. Baum

 
 
               Douglas R. Jamieson
 	 Secretary & Treasurer
United Holdings Co., Inc.
2545 Wilkens Avenue
Baltimore, MD   21223
 
See below	
Joseph R. Rindler, Jr.
 	Business Consultant/former Chairman of GAMCO Asset Management Inc.	
               Fredric V. Salerno	Chairman; Former Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer
Verizon Communications
 	
Officers:	 	
Mario J. Gabelli	 Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
 	
Michael G. Chieco	Chief Financial Officer

GAMCO Investors, Inc.
Directors:	 	
 
               Edwin L. Artzt

 
 
               Richard L. Bready	 
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Procter & Gamble Company
900 Adams Crossing
Cincinnati, OH 45202
 
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Nortek, Inc.
50 Kennedy Plaza
Providence, RI 02903
 	
Mario J. Gabelli
 
               John D. Gabelli	See above
 
Senior Vice President	
 
               John C. Ferrara
 	 
Business Consultant
 	
               Eugene R. McGrath
 	Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Consolidated Edison, Inc.
 	
Karl Otto Pohl (1)

 
 
              Robert S. Prather

 

 
               Vincent S. Tese

 	Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie.
Bockenheimer Landstrasse 20
D-6000 FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Germany
 
President & Chief Operating Officer
Gray Television, Inc.
4370 Peachtree Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30319

Lawyer, Investment Adviser and Cable Television Executive
c/o Bear Stearns & Company, Inc.
245 Park Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10167
 	
Officers:	 	
Mario J. Gabelli
 	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
 	
Douglas R. Jamieson
 
Henry G. Van der Eb
 
Diane LaPointe
 
Kieran Caterina
 	President and Chief Operating Officer
 
Senior Vice President
 
Acting Co-Chief Financial Officer
 
Acting Co-Chief Financial Officer	
James E. McKee
 	Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

 
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                                   SCHEDULE II	
                            INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO	
                 TRANSACTIONS EFFECTED DURING THE PAST SIXTY DAYS OR	
                 SINCE THE MOST RECENT FILING ON SCHEDULE 13D (1)	
                                   SHARES PURCHASED        AVERAGE	
                        DATE            SOLD(-)             PRICE(2)	
 COMMON STOCK-WESTWOOD HLDGS GROUP	
          GAMCO ASSET MANAGEMENT INC.	
                      12/05/07            1,900-           37.2437	
                      12/04/07              800-           36.8288	
                      12/03/07              200-           37.5000	
                      11/30/07              400-           37.4400	
                      11/29/07            1,100-           37.3209	
                      11/28/07            2,200-           36.5650	
                      11/27/07              600-           34.9950	
                      11/26/07            2,300-           34.7061	
                      11/23/07              200-           34.8200	
                      11/23/07              200-           34.8000	
                      11/15/07              500-           37.2700	
                      11/14/07            1,100-           37.4818	
                      11/12/07              100-           37.0700	
                      11/09/07            2,800-           36.8675	
                      11/08/07              700-           36.2957	
                      11/01/07            2,500-           37.8540	
                      10/25/07            3,900-           39.7946	
                      10/25/07              100-           39.7802	
                      10/25/07              100            39.7801	
                      10/24/07            4,600-           39.0489	
                      10/23/07            5,900-           37.7912	
                      10/18/07            1,200-           37.5200	
                      10/17/07              700-           37.2300	
                      10/16/07            3,100-           37.3677	
                      10/12/07            5,300-           36.6615	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
(1) UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED, ALL TRANSACTIONS WERE EFFECTED	
    ON THE NYSE.	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
(2) PRICE EXCLUDES COMMISSION.