1970 United Kingdom general election in Scotland information
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1970 United Kingdom general election
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All 71 Scottish seats to the House of Commons
First party
Second party
Leader
Harold Wilson
Edward Heath
Party
Labour
Conservative
Last election
46 seats, 49.9%
20 seats, 37.6%
Seats won
44
23
Seat change
2
3
Popular vote
1,197,068
1,020,674
Percentage
44.5%
38.0%
Swing
5.4%
0.4%
Third party
Fourth party
Lib
SNP
Leader
Jeremy Thorpe
William Wolfe
Party
Liberal
SNP
Last election
5 seats, 6.8%
0 seats, 5.0%
Seats won
3
1
Seat change
2
1
Popular vote
147,667
306,802
Percentage
5.5%
11.4%
Swing
1.3%
6.4%
Results of the 1970 election in Scotland
Main article: 1970 United Kingdom general election
A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 18 June 1970 and all 71 seats in Scotland were contested.[1] The Labour Party won the most seats for the fourth consecutive election, whilst the Scottish National Party won a seat for the first time in a general election, having won their first ever Westminster seat at the 1945 Motherwell by-election and another shock victory in the Hamilton by-election in 1967.[2]
^"Commons results report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 November 2020.
^Baldi, Gregory (14 October 2022). "Politics without society: explaining the rise of the Scottish National Party". British Politics. 18 (3): 342–363. doi:10.1057/s41293-022-00215-w. ISSN 1746-918X. PMC 9561324. PMID 38625219.
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