United Kingdom general election, 2017 (Scotland)

United Kingdom general election, 2017
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All 59 Scottish seats to the House of Commons
Turnout	66.4%, 4.7%
	Colours on map indicate winning party for each constituency

Last updated April 01, 2019

The 2017 United Kingdom general election in Scotland was held on Thursday, 8 June 2017 and all 59 seats were contested under the first-past-the-post electoral system.

A first-past-the-post electoral system is one in which voters indicate on a ballot the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins. This is sometimes described as winner takes all. First-past-the-post voting is a plurality voting method. FPTP is a common, but not universal, feature of electoral systems with single-member electoral divisions, and is practiced in close to one third of countries. Notable examples include Canada, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as most of their current or former colonies and protectorates.

The general election in Scotland was fought in the aftermath of the 2016 Scottish Parliament election in which the SNP won a third term in government but lost their overall majority in the Scottish Parliament. At that election, the Scottish Conservative Party increased their number of MSPs, overtaking Labour as the largest opposition party. The 2016 EU referendum was held a month later on Thursday, 23 June and the final result was for the United Kingdom to Leave the EU; despite Scotland voting 62.0% Remain. Negotiations are due to begin shortly since invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union in March 2017, which was expected to dominate the snap general election campaign.^[1]

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Sharing a border with England to the southeast, Scotland is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, by the North Sea to the northeast and by the Irish Sea to the south. In addition to the mainland, situated on the northern third of the island of Great Britain, Scotland has over 790 islands, including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.

In line with the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, an election had not been due until 7 May 2020, but a call for a snap election by Prime Minister Theresa May received the necessary two-thirds majority in a 522-13 vote in the House of Commons on 19 April 2017.^[2] The Conservative Party, which has governed since 2010, was defending a majority of 17^[3] against the Labour Party, the official opposition. The third-largest party was the Scottish National Party (SNP), which won 56 of the 59 Scottish seats at the 2015 general election.

The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that received Royal Assent on 15 September 2011, introducing fixed-term elections to the Westminster parliament for the first time. Under the provisions of the Act, parliamentary general elections must be held every five years, beginning in 2015.

A snap election is an election called earlier than expected.

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister directs both the executive and the legislature, and together with their Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Monarch, to Parliament, to their political party and ultimately to the electorate. The office of Prime Minister is one of the Great Offices of State. The current holder of the office, Theresa May, leader of the Conservative Party, was appointed by the Queen on 13 July 2016.

The election resulted in the SNP remaining as the largest single party in Scotland despite losing 21 seats to pro-union candidates. The Conservatives doubled their share of vote and won 13 seats while Labour won 7 seats and the Liberal Democrats won 4 seats respectively. The Conservatives recorded their best result in Scotland since 1983 or (in terms of seats won) 1979 (in terms of share of the popular vote). Until this election, the Conservatives had not been the second-largest party in Scotland since 1992 and had not been the largest unionist party in Scotland since 1955.

Defeated SNP MPs included: former SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond,^[4] SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson,^[5] SNP Chief Whip Mike Weir;^[6] as well as John Nicolson ^[7] and Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh.^[8] Commentators suggested that the election might reduce the SNP's case for a second referendum on Scottish independence.^[9]^[10]^[11] Following the election, the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon acknowledged that her party's plans for a second referendum were 'undoubtedly' a factor in the election results. The SNP also abandoned its fundraiser for a possible referendum after raising half of its £1,000,000 target, just over a week before its preset deadline.^[12]

The First Minister of Scotland is the leader of the Scottish Government. The First Minister chairs the Scottish Cabinet and is primarily responsible for the formulation, development and presentation of Scottish Government policy. Additional functions of the First Minister include promoting and representing Scotland in an official capacity, at home and abroad, and responsibility for constitutional affairs, as they relate to devolution and the Scottish Government.

Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond is a Scottish politician who served as the First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. He was the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) for over twenty years, having served for two terms, firstly from 1990 to 2000 and subsequently from 2004 to 2014. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banff and Buchan between 1987 and 2010, when he stood down to focus on his other roles, and then for Gordon from 2015 to 2017, when he lost his seat to Scottish Conservative candidate Colin Clark. During the 2015–2017 parliament, he was the SNP International Affairs and Europe spokesperson in the House of Commons.

Angus Struan Carolus Robertson is a former Scottish politician who was the Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and was the party's spokesperson on the Constitution in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 2001. In 2017, he sought re-election as the MP for Moray and lost to Scottish Conservative candidate Douglas Ross.

Political context

Following a referendum held on Scottish independence in 2014 which saw 44.7% of voters in Scotland vote for Scotland to become an independent state and 55.3% vote for Scotland to remain a part of the United Kingdom, the SNP won 56 of the 59 UK Parliamentary seats in Scotland at the 2015 UK general election, campaigning on a manifesto focusing on bringing greater devolved powers to Scotland following a promise made by the three main unionist parties in Scotland to bring more devolved powers to the country should it reject independence.^[13] The SNP manifesto at the 2015 general election repeatedly stated that "The SNP will always support independence - but that is not what this election is about".^[13]

The Smith Commission was announced by Prime Minister David Cameron on 19 September 2014 in the wake of the 'No' vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. The establishment of the commission was part of the process of fulfilling The Vow made by the leaders of the three main unionist parties during the last days of the referendum campaign. The Vow promised the devolution of more powers from the Parliament of the United Kingdom to the Scottish Parliament in the event of a No vote.

Labour only returned a single MP at Edinburgh South; a reduction of 40 seats compared to the previous election. The party lost out heavily to the SNP in working-class areas around the Scottish Central Belt, with Scottish Labour's safest constituency (Glasgow North East) returning the largest swing at the general election for any seat in the UK with 39.3% from Labour to SNP. The party performed best in more affluent constituencies, with then-Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy missing out in his former constituency of East Renfrewshire by just 3,718 votes. Labour's next closest result was at Edinburgh North and Leith, where they missed out to the SNP by 5,597 votes, and in East Lothian, where the SNP polled ahead of Labour by 6,803 votes.

The Scottish Liberal Democrats lost 10 of their 11 Westminster seats from 2010, with their safest seat in the UK - Orkney and Shetland - remaining as the only Liberal Democrat seat in Scotland. They marginally lost out to the SNP in East Dunbartonshire, where former Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson lost out to the SNP by 2,167 votes. Among those to lose their seat at the election were: former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander. The Liberal Democrats finished in third place at Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk and West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, seats which they had held at the previous election.

The Scottish Conservative Party hads not held a majority of Scottish seats at a general election since 1955 and lost all Scottish representation at the 1997 general election. Since 2001, the party had held only one Scottish seat in the House of Commons. In 2005, following the re-organisation of Scottish constituencies, that seat was Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, a mostly rural constituency near the Scottish Borders. In 2015, it's share of the vote in Scotland decreased by 1.8% but managed to retain Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, as it's only Scottish seat. It had been reported the party could gain Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk,^[14] a seat which they lost out to the Scottish National Party by a meagre 0.6% of the vote.

The SNP polled slightly under half of the votes, 49.97%, in Scotland at the 2015 general election; the largest vote share at a general election in Scotland for a party since the Conservatives won a majority of the popular vote, 50.1%, in 1955.

The impact of the 2016 EU referendum and a proposed second Scottish independence referendum was a large theme at the snap 2017 general election.^[15] The SNP incorrectly predicted that many pro-union voters would switch allegiance to the party in order to remain within the European Union.^{[ citation needed ]} Polling from YouGov suggests people moving towards independence as a result of Brexit would be offset by the number of previously pro-independence Leave voters saying they would vote against independence as a result of Brexit.^[16]

A study by Electoral Calculus, published on 14 May 2017, concluded that the Conservatives could win 11 seats in Scotland.^[17]^[18]

Campaign events

On 21 May, BBC Scotland hosted the First live TV debate, all six Scottish leaders.^[19]
On 24 May, STV was supposed to host the second Live TV debate from the Tramway theatre in Glasgow with the four main Scottish leaders^[20] but this was postponed until Tuesday 6 June.^[21]

Opinion polling

Results


Party^[22]		Seats					Votes
Party^[22]		Total	Gains	Losses	Net +/-	% seats	Total votes	% votes	Change
	SNP	35	0	21	21	59.3	977,569	36.9	13.1
	Conservative	13	12	0	12	22.0	757,949	28.6	13.7
	Labour	7	6	0	6	11.9	717,007	27.1	2.8
	Liberal Democrat	4	3	0	3	6.8	179,061	6.8	0.8
	Scottish Green	0	0	0		—	5,886	0.2	1.1
	UKIP	0	0	0		—	5,302	0.2	1.4
	Others	0	0	0		—	6,921	0.3	0.3
							2,649,695	66.4	4.7

Votes summary

Popular vote

SNP			36.9%
Conservative			28.6%
Labour			27.1%
Liberal Democrats			6.8%
Greens			0.2%
UKIP			0.2%
Other			0.2%

Parliament seats

SNP			59.3%
Conservative			22.0%
Labour			11.9%
Liberal Democrats			6.8%

List of Constituencies by Party

2017 UK General Election (Scottish Westminster Constituencies)
Party		Constituency
	SNP	Aberdeen North Airdrie and Shotts Argyll and Bute Central Ayrshire Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East Dundee East Dundee West Dunfermline and West Fife East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow Edinburgh East Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh South West Falkirk Glasgow Central Glasgow East Glasgow North Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West Glenrothes Inverclyde Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Kilmarnock and Loudoun Lanark and Hamilton East Linlithgow and East Falkirk Livingston Motherwell and Wishaw Na h-Eileanan an Iar North Ayrshire and Arran North East Fife Paisley and Renfrewshire North Paisley and Renfrewshire South Perth and North Perthshire Ross, Skye and Lochaber West Dunbartonshire
	Conservative	Aberdeen South Angus Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock Banff and Buchan Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Dumfries and Galloway Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale East Renfrewshire Gordon Moray Ochil and South Perthshire Stirling West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
	Labour	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill East Lothian Edinburgh South Glasgow North East Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath Midlothian Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	Liberal Democrat	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross East Dunbartonshire Edinburgh West Orkney and Shetland

Description of results

At the election the SNP remained the largest party in Scotland, taking the vast majority of seats situated around the more industrial Central Belt of the country, between Balloch, Dundee, Irvine, Kilmarnock and Livingston,^[22] where the campaign in favour of Scottish independence performed best at the 2014 independence referendum.^[23] The party also took the most votes and a majority of seats in three out of four major cities in Scotland (Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh), however Labour were within 1,200 votes of taking the most votes in Edinburgh and were within 200 votes of gaining two additional seats in Glasgow.^[24] The SNP failed to win a majority of the vote in any of Scotland's 59 constituencies.^[25]

The Scottish Conservatives performed best in areas where the campaign in favour of remaining part of the United Kingdom performed best in at the 2014 independence referendum and in areas where the campaign to leave the European Union performed best in at the 2016 EU membership referendum.^[23]^[26] The Conservatives formed the largest party in the south of the country through Dumfries and Galloway, the Scottish Borders and South Ayrshire, where they won four seats in total. They also gained the East Renfrewshire constituency, an affluent commuter suburb on the outskirts of Glasgow which was the safest Conservative constituency in Scotland before their collapse at the 1997 general election,^[27] and gained the Ochil and South Perthshire and Stirling constituencies in Central Scotland, coming within 21 votes of gaining Perth and North Perthshire, the second closest result in Scotland and the third closest across the United Kingdom as a whole.^[24] Six out of seven constituencies in the North-East of Scotland voted Conservative, including former SNP party leader and First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond's constituency of Gordon, and the SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson's seat of Moray. Two out of three seats covering the city of Aberdeen returned Conservative MP's.

Scottish Labour retained their Edinburgh South constituency with a significant majority of 15,514 votes (32.4%), making it the safest constituency in Scotland. They also regained a number previously safe Labour working class constituencies in the Central Belt of Scotland, including Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill, Glasgow North East, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and Rutherglen and Hamilton West, gaining a further two seats in Lothian (East Lothian and Midlothian). The party were within 1,400 votes of gaining a further six seats from the SNP in Greater Glasgow.^[25]

The Liberal Democrats gained the suburban constituencies of East Dunbartonshire and Edinburgh West on the outskirts of Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively. The party also regained their former heartland of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, a large rural constituency covering the northernmost parts of Great Britain, with Orkney and Shetland again becoming the safest Lib Dem constituency in the UK in vote share terms, with a majority 19.6% of the vote. They lost out to the SNP in the North East Fife constituency by just 2 votes (0.0%), the closest result in the United Kingdom at a general election since the result in Winchester in 1997.^[28] However, the party's vote collapsed to the Conservatives in Aberdeenshire, the Borders and in parts of the Highlands.

Target seats

Scottish Conservative Party

Rank ^[29]	Constituency ^[29]		Swing Required	Conservatives' place 2015
1	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk	SNP	0.3%	2nd	Conservative
2	Dumfries & Galloway	SNP	5.8%	2nd	Conservative
3	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	SNP	6.4%	2nd	Conservative
4	Perth and North Perthshire	SNP	9.0%	2nd	SNP
5	Moray	SNP	9.2%	2nd	Conservative
6	East Renfrewshire	SNP	9.3%	3rd	Conservative
7	Aberdeen South	SNP	9.4%	3rd	Conservative
8	Edinburgh South	Labour	10.8%	3rd	Labour
9	Stirling	SNP	11.3%	3rd	Conservative
10	Edinburgh South West	SNP	11.4%	3rd	SNP
11	East Lothian	SNP	11.5%	3rd	Labour
12	North East Fife	SNP	12.4%	3rd	SNP
13	Edinburgh North and Leith	SNP	12.4%	3rd	SNP
14	Angus	SNP	12.6%	2nd	Conservative
15	Ochil and South Perthshire	SNP	12.6%	3rd	Conservative
16	Edinburgh West	SNP	13.3%	3rd	Liberal Democrats
17	East Dunbartonshire	SNP	14.4%	3rd	Liberal Democrats
18	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	SNP	14.5%	3rd	Conservative
19	Argyll and Bute	SNP	14.7%	3rd	SNP
20	Banff and Buchan	SNP	15.7%	2nd	Conservative
21	Lanark and Hamilton East	SNP	16.5%	3rd	SNP
22	Central Ayrshire	SNP	17.9%	3rd	SNP
23	Gordon	SNP	18.0%	3rd	Conservative

Labour Party

Rank	Constituency		Swing Required	Labour's place 2015
1	East Renfrewshire	SNP	3.3%	2nd	Conservative
2	Edinburgh North and Leith	SNP	4.8%	2nd	SNP
3	East Lothian	SNP	5.8%	2nd	Labour
4	Paisley and Renfrewshire South	SNP	6.2%	2nd	SNP
5	Aberdeen South	SNP	7.5%	2nd	Conservative
6	Edinburgh South West	SNP	7.9%	2nd	SNP
7	Dumfries and Galloway	SNP	8.4%	3rd	Conservative
8	Rutherglen and Hamilton West	SNP	8.7%	2nd	Labour
9	Ochil and South Perthshire	SNP	8.8%	2nd	Conservative
10	Paisley and Renfrewshire North	SNP	9.1%	2nd	SNP
11	Lanark and Hamilton East	SNP	9.1%	2nd	SNP
12	Dunfermline and West Fife	SNP	9.3%	2nd	SNP
13	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath	SNP	9.4%	2nd	Labour
14	Edinburgh East	SNP	9.7%	2nd	SNP
15	Glasgow Central	SNP	9.8%	2nd	SNP
16	Airdrie and Shotts	SNP	9.9%	2nd	SNP
17	Stirling	SNP	10.1%	2nd	Conservative
18	Midlothian	SNP	10.2%	2nd	Labour
19	Linlithgow and Falkirk East	SNP	10.5%	2nd	SNP
20	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	SNP	10.8%	2nd	Conservative
21	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill	SNP	11.3%	2nd	Labour
22	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	Conservative	11.7%	3rd	Conservative
23	Glasgow North West	SNP	11.9%	2nd	SNP
24	Glasgow North West	SNP	12.2%	2nd	SNP
25	Glasgow East	SNP	12.2%	2nd	SNP
26	Glasgow North East	SNP	12.3%	2nd	Labour

Scottish Liberal Democrats

Rank	Constituency		Swing Required	Liberal Democrats' place 2015
1	East Dunbartonshire	SNP	2.0%	2nd	Liberal Democrats
2	Edinburgh West	SNP	2.9%	2nd	Liberal Democrats
3	North East Fife	SNP	4.9%	2nd	SNP
4	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	SNP	5.7%	2nd	Liberal Democrats
5	Ross, Skye and Lochaber	SNP	6.1%	2nd	SNP
6	Gordon	SNP	7.5%	2nd	Conservative

Scottish National Party

Rank	Constituency		Swing Required	SNP's place 2015
1	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	Conservative	0.8%	2nd	Conservative
2	Orkney and Shetland	Liberal Democrats	1.8%	2nd	Liberal Democrats
3	Edinburgh South	Labour	2.7%	2nd	Labour

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v t e United Kingdom general election, 2017
← 2015 election Constituencies Debates MPs elected MPs who stood down MPs who lost their seat MPs by seniority Endorsements Opinion polling Parties Target seats 57th Parliament Results breakdown Results by constituency
Incumbent Prime Minister: Theresa May (Conservative) Appointed Prime Minister: Theresa May (Conservative)
Parties elected to the House of Commons	Conservative (Theresa May) Labour (Jeremy Corbyn) Scottish National Party (Nicola Sturgeon) Liberal Democrats (Tim Farron) Democratic Unionist Party (Arlene Foster) Sinn Féin (Gerry Adams) Plaid Cymru (Leanne Wood) Green Party of England and Wales (Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley)
Parties only represented in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London, or the European Parliament	UK Independence Party (Paul Nuttall) Scottish Green Party (Patrick Harvie/Maggie Chapman) Social Democratic and Labour Party (Colum Eastwood) Ulster Unionist Party (Robin Swann) Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (Naomi Long) Traditional Unionist Voice (Jim Allister) People Before Profit Alliance (Collective leadership)
Other	Full list of parties standing candidates Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire Scottish Parliament by-election (held on same day)
Results by area	England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
United Kingdom local elections, 2017

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Local referendums	Scottish licensing referendums Strathclyde (water) 1994 Edinburgh (congestion charge) 2005