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This is a list of the 71 members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Scottish constituencies for the Forty-eighth parliament of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1983) at the 1979 United Kingdom general election.
| Affiliation | Members | |
| Labour Party | 44 | |
| Conservative Party | 22 | |
| Liberal | 3 | |
| Scottish National Party | 2 | |
| Total | 71 | |
| Affiliation | Members | |
| Labour Party | 44 | |
| Conservative Party | 20 | |
| Alliance | 6 | |
| Scottish National Party | 2 | |
| Total | 71 | |
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