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2015 in Scottish television

Events from the year 2015 in Scotland .

Incumbents

Law officers

Judiciary

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

The arts

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Events from the year 2014 in Scotland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2015 United Kingdom general election</span> General election held in the United Kingdom

The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 7 May 2015 to elect 650 members to the House of Commons. It was the first and only general election held at the end of a Parliament under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. Local elections took place in most areas on the same day.

This is a list of events in Scottish television from 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2015 United Kingdom general election in Scotland</span> List of election results

A general election was held in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2015 and all 59 seats in Scotland were contested under the first-past-the-post, single-member district electoral system. Unlike the 2010 general election, where no seats changed party, the Scottish National Party (SNP) won all but three seats in Scotland in an unprecedented landslide victory, gaining a total of 56 seats and taking the largest share of the Scottish vote in sixty years, at approximately 50 per cent. The Labour Party suffered its worst ever election defeat in Scotland, losing 40 of the 41 seats it was defending, including the seats of Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and the then Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander. The Liberal Democrats lost ten of the eleven seats they were defending, with the then Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander and former leader Charles Kennedy losing their seats. The election also saw the worst performance by the Scottish Conservative Party, which received its lowest share of the vote since its creation in 1965, although it retained the one seat that it previously held. In all, 50 of the 59 seats changed party, 49 of them being won by first-time MPs.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Deidre Brock</span> Australian-born Scottish National Party politician

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