1959 Scottish representative peers election information

An election for 16 Scottish representative peers took place on 6 October 1959 at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. It turned out to be the last...

In the United Kingdom, representative peers were those peers elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the...

year, all Scottish peers were given seats in the House of Lords as of right, thus after that date no further Scottish representative peers were needed...

peerage of Scotland elected sixteen of their number, the Scottish representative peers, to sit in the House of Lords at Westminster. General elections were...

the Scottish hereditary peers would only be able to elect 16 Scottish representative peers to sit in the House of Lords; the term of a representative was...

and the Peerage Act 1963, peers with titles in the Peerage of Scotland were entitled to elect sixteen representative peers to the House of Lords. Between...

2008. "Election By Scots Peers". The Times. London. 7 October 1959. p. 14. There were 115 peers of Scotland at the time of the last representatives' election...

The Scottish Representative Peers Act 1707 (6 Ann. c. 78) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The whole act was repealed by sections 4 and...

Party (in Scotland) January 1910: All-for-Ireland League January 1910: Scottish Prohibition Party* 1900: Labour Party (as Labour Representative Committee...

Scottish Labour, officially the Scottish Labour Party, is the part of the UK Labour Party active in Scotland. In effect it is a branch of the UK Labour...

(December 1961). "The Sixteen Peers of Scotland: An Account of the Elections of the Representative Peers of Scotland, 1707–1959 by James Fergusson". The Journal...

voting in the Scottish Parliament and the Senedd respectively, and local elections in both countries is 16. However, voters in Scotland and Wales under...

failure to be tried as temporal peers in the House of Lords, it remained unclear whether the Lords Spiritual were indeed peers. In 1688, the issue arose during...

The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) won its first seat in the Scottish Parliament in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election. In the 2003 Scottish Parliament...

to sit in the House". When most members of the Lords were hereditary peers, a peer who had inherited his or her peerage(s) while under age was entitled...

the sitting MP John Peyton stood down at the 1983 general election to be made a life peer. Ashdown had gained momentum after his years of local campaigning...

of the Scottish electorate. The overall turnout of 84.6% was very high for Scotland. Turnout was around 50–60% for elections to the Scottish and UK parliaments...

1970), First Minister of Scotland (since 2014) and Leader of the Scottish National Party John Swinney (born 1964), Scottish National Party (SNP) politician...

peerages (with the exception of 28 Irish representative peers allowed after 1801, who were elected from among their peers) legally did not sit in the House of...

– First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf unveils a new Scottish Government paper on independence that includes plans for Scottish citizenship and passports...

(footballer, born 1872) (1872–1905), Scottish footballer John Russell (Cambuslang footballer) (fl. 1890), Scottish footballer for Cambuslang and the national...

of Lords Act 1999 has abolished all but 92 hereditary peers, leaving most peers to be "life peers" appointed by the government under the Life Peerages...