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1997 United Kingdom general election ← 1992 1 May 1997 2001 → ← outgoing members elected members → All 72 Scottish seats to the House of Commons Turnout 71.3%, 4.2% First party Second party Leader Tony Blair Paddy Ashdown Party Labour Liberal Democrats Leader since 21 July 1994 16 July 1988 Seats before 49 9 Seats won 56 10 Seat change 7 1 Popular vote 1,283,350 365,362 Percentage 45.6 ...
The Scottish Labour Party gained the majority of seats in Scotland for the first time since 2010, regaining most of the seats lost to the SNP in 2015. Labour gained every seat in Glasgow, all but one seat in Edinburgh, and all but one seat in the Central Belt (both of these exceptions being seats won by the Scottish Liberal Democrats). Labour ...
4.3 Scottish National to Labour. 4.4 Scottish National to Liberal Democrats. ... Seats +/– Labour: Keir Starmer: 33.7 411 +209 Conservative: Rishi Sunak: 23.7 121 ...
His comments came after Labour had its most successful election in Scotland since the 2014 independence referendum, with the general election seeing the party win 37 seats north of the border. But ...
The final result of the election on 2 May 1997 revealed that Labour had won a landslide majority, making a net gain of 146 seats and winning 43.2% of the vote. 150 Members of Parliament, including 133 Conservatives, lost their seats. The Conservatives, meanwhile, suffered defeat with a net loss of 178 seats, winning 30.7% of the vote.
Labour had been hoping to win 15 to 20 seats in Scotland in a bid to boost its chances of avoiding a hung parliament and winning an outright majority. ... The SNP has 44 UK parliamentary seats in ...
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
Labour achieved a 174-seat simple majority, and a total of 411 seats, a single-party figure surpassed only by Tony Blair in 1997 and 2001. [ b ] The party's vote share was 33.7%, the lowest of any majority party on record, making this the least proportional general election in British history according to the Gallagher index . [ 3 ]