1955 United Kingdom general election in Scotland
26 May 1955
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All 71 Scottish seats to the House of Commons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results of the 1955 election in Scotland Conservative/Unionist Labour Liberal National Liberal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 26 May 1955 and all 71 seats in Scotland were contested.[1][2] The election brought unparalleled success to the Unionist Party, which gained 41.5% of the vote and 36 of the 71 seats at Westminster.[3] It is often cited as the only time since the Second World War that one party has achieved a majority of the Scottish vote, although six of the Unionist MPs were returned that year under the label of "National Liberal and Conservatives".
While the 1955 General Election is often cited as the last election in which the Conservative and Unionist Party returned a majority vote from Scotland, it predates the 1965 merger with the Conservative Party by a decade. The two parties were separate entities, albeit closely associated.
MPs
List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1955–1959)
Results
| Party | Seats | Seats change | Votes | % | % Change | ||
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| Unionist | 30 | 1 | 1,056,209 | 41.5 | 1.6 | ||
| National Liberal & Conservative | 6 | 217,733 | 8.6 | 0.1 | |||
| Labour Party | 34 | 1 | 1,188,058 | 46.7 | 1.2 | ||
| Liberal | 1 | 47,273 | 1.9 | 0.8 | |||
| Communist | 0 | 13,195 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |||
| SNP | 0 | 12,112 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |||
| Other | 0 | 8,674 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |||
| Total | 71 | 2,543,254 | 100 | ||||
Votes summary
Notes
References
- ^ "Commons results report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 November 2020.
- ^ Colin Rallings; Micheal Thrasher (2006). British Electoral Facts. Total Politics. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-907278-03-7.
- ^ Torrance, David (April 2018). "'Standing up for Scotland': The Scottish Unionist Party and 'nationalist unionism', 1912–68". Scottish Affairs. 27 (2): 179. doi:10.3366/scot.2018.0235 – via Edinburgh University Press.