Elections for East Lothian Council took place in May 1974, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts.
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 10 | - | - | 58.8 | 35.4 | 8,212 | |||
Conservative | 6 | - | - | 35.3 | 38.1 | 8,825 | |||
Independent | 1 | - | - | 5.9 | 17.0 | 3,930 | |||
SNP | 0 | - | - | 0.0 | 4.1 | 956 | |||
Independent Labour | 0 | - | - | 0.0 | 2.3 | 542 | |||
Residents | 0 | - | - | 0.0 | 1.8 | 409 | |||
Liberal | 0 | - | - | 0.0 | 1.3 | 299 |
Musselburgh is the largest settlement in East Lothian, Scotland, on the coast of the Firth of Forth, five miles east of Edinburgh city centre. It has a population of 21,100.
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East Lothian is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering most of the council area of East Lothian. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the South Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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