October 1974 United Kingdom general election in Scotland

October 1974 United Kingdom general election

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All 71 Scottish seats to the House of Commons
Turnout	74.81%, 4.05%
First party Second party   Leader Harold Wilson Edward Heath Party Labour Conservative Leader since 14 February 1963 28 July 1965 Last election 40 seats, 36.6% 21 seats, 32.9% Seats won 41 16 Seat change 1 5 Popular vote 1,000,581 681,327 Percentage 36.3% 24.7% Swing 0.3% 8.2%   Third party Fourth party   SNP Liberal Leader William Wolfe Jeremy Thorpe Party SNP Liberal Leader since 1 June 1969 18 January 1967 Last election 7 seats, 21.9% 3 seats, 7.9% Seats won 11 3 Seat change 4 Popular vote 839,617 228,855 Percentage 30.4% 8.3% Swing 8.5% 0.4%
Results of the Oct. 1974 election in Scotland

Main article: October 1974 United Kingdom general election

A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 10 October 1974 and all 71 seats in Scotland were contested. ^[1] For the first time in its history, SNP became the second largest party in Scotland by popular vote.

MPs

List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (October 1974–1979)

Results

Party		Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	41	1	1,000,581	36.3	0.3
	Conservative	16	5	681,327	24.7	8.2
	SNP	11	4	839,617	30.4	8.5
	Liberal	3		228,855	8.3	0.4
	Other	0		7,721	0.28	0.4
Turnout:				2,758,101	74.81

Votes summary

Popular vote Labour   36.28% SNP   30.44% Conservative   24.70% Liberal   8.30% Other   0.28%

Parliament seats Labour   57.75% Conservative   22.54% SNP   15.49% Liberal   4.23%

References

1. "Commons results report" (PDF).