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Richard Leonard was elected as the leader of the Scottish Labour Party in 2017 when he defeated Anas Sarwar to win with 56.7% of the vote. In the 2019 European Parliament election, the party lost its two seats in European Parliament for the Scotland constituency, and in the 2019 general election, the party lost six of its seven Scottish MPs. [1]
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.
On election day itself, the party managed to improve on its 2015 result and received 27% of the Scottish vote in a surprisingly good night for the party nationwide, and picked up 6 seats from the SNP in traditionally Labour areas such as Coatbridge, Glasgow, Kirkcaldy, and Rutherglen, bringing its Scottish number of seats to 7. Despite the ...
The election expert said that if you extrapolated the by-election result for a general election it would see the Labour party win an astonishing 42 seats in Scotland and SNP left with just six MPs ...
The manifesto Scottish Labour will publish this week will help the party “chart a path to 2026” leader Anas Sarwar has said as he ponders the next Holyrood election. Labour has seen a ...
Five Scottish Parliamentary elections have been held since the reconvention of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. ... Labour Party: 37 17 1,144,310 47.9 11.1 Unionist ...
The constituency was regarded as a safe seat for Labour until the 2015 general election, when Margaret Ferrier took it from Greatrex by nearly 10,000 votes amidst a Scottish National Party landslide. [9] In the snap 2017 general election, the seat was taken back by Labour's Ged Killen with a majority of just 265 votes. [10]
The main parties fielding candidates were: the Scottish National Party (SNP), led by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon; the Scottish Conservatives, led by Douglas Ross; Scottish Labour, led by Anas Sarwar; the Scottish Liberal Democrats, led by Willie Rennie, and the Scottish Greens, jointly led by Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater.