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The 2024 general election was held on 4 July 2024. 57 Scottish Westminster seats were contested. The election saw a resurgence of Labour within Scotland, with the party winning 37 seats, an increase of 36 from the previous election and becoming the largest party in Scotland for the first time since 2010.
It includes MPs elected at the 2024 general election, held on 4 July 2024. The number of constituences in Scotland reduced from 59 to 57 at this election. The Labour Party 's vote went up by 16.7% and their number of MPs increased from 1 to 37, mainly in Scotland's Central Belt .
1– 15 Nov 2024 Survation: Progress Scotland: 3,016 32%: 14% 27% 9% 6% 10% – 5 30 Oct – 1 Nov 2024 Norstat: The Times: 1,013 33%: 15% 23% 10% 6% 11% – 10 12 Oct 2024 Alex Salmond, former First Minister and leader of the Alba Party, dies 27 Sep 2024 Russell Findlay is elected leader of the Scottish Conservatives: 10– 13 Sep 2024 ...
This Act superseded the Scotland Act 1998, which had set elections in every fourth year. [ 2 ] The date of the poll may be varied by up to one month either way by the monarch , on the proposal of the Presiding Officer , making 4 June 2026 the latest possible date for this election, assuming the convention of holding elections on a Thursday stands.
In March 2024, the Scottish Government published Building a New Scotland: An independent Scotland's Place in the World, which proposed the establishment of a new Joint Forces Headquarters to be based at HMNB Clyde which would lead the establishment of a new Scottish Armed Forces. An independent Scotland's military capability would consist of ...
John Swinney becomes leader of the SNP and then First Minister of Scotland: 3-8 May 2024 Savanta/The Scotsman: 1,080 44% 48%: 8% 4% 30 Apr-3 May 2024 Norstat/The ...
As a result of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies by the Boundary Commission for Scotland, Scotland is covered by 57 constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom: 17 burgh constituencies and 40 county constituencies. [1] These constituencies are in use from the 2024 general election.
Senior consultants in Scotland have voted to accept a 10.5% pay rise that will see them earn between £10,500 and £13,500 extra each year, and which will be backdated to 1 April 2024. [ 316 ] A waste management company is to sue the Scottish Government for £170m over the failed bottle return scheme.