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The Scottish National Party (SNP; Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba [ˈpʰaːrˠtʰi ˈn̪ˠaːʃən̪ˠt̪ə nə ˈhal̪ˠapə]) is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic party. The party holds 62 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament, and holds 9 out of the 57 Scottish seats in the House of Commons. It has 453 local ...
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. This was at the expense of the Scottish National Party (SNP), whose vote share dropped by 15% and their number of MPs reducing to single ...
Labour won almost twice as many Scottish seats as the Conservatives, although both main parties suffered a drop in seats and vote share compared to the previous election. The Scottish National Party achieved significant success at the election by increasing its share of the popular vote in Scotland from 11% to 22%, and its number of MPs from ...
A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 18 June 1970 and all 71 seats in Scotland were contested. [1] The Labour Party won the most seats for the fourth consecutive election, whilst the Scottish National Party won a seat for the first time in a general election, having won their first ever Westminster seat at the 1945 Motherwell by-election and another shock victory in ...
Labour won 41 seats, the Liberal Democrats 11, the Scottish National Party six, and in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale the Conservatives won their only Scottish seat. [2] Compared to the actual general election results of 2001, this meant a loss of fourteen seats for Labour, a gain of one seat for the Scottish National Party and the ...
Until 1997, the constituency was the safest Conservative seat in Scotland. [4] [5] At the 1997 general election, which was a landslide victory for Labour, it was won by future Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy who held the seat until being defeated by Kirsten Oswald of the Scottish National Party at the 2015 general election.
The Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004 required the commission to review boundaries of all constituencies except Orkney and Shetland (which cover, respectively, the Orkney Islands council area and the Shetland Islands council area) so that the area covered by the reviewed constituencies continues to be covered by a total of 71 ...
A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday, 7 June 2001 and all 72 seats in Scotland were contested. There was only one Scottish seat which changed parties during the election; that of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale which Peter Duncan of the Conservative Party gained from Alisdair Morgan of the Scottish National Party, by just 74 votes.