2019 United Kingdom general election in Scotland information
United Kingdom general election held in Scotland
2019 United Kingdom general election
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All 59 Scottish seats to the House of Commons
Turnout
68.1% 1.6pp
First party
Second party
Leader
Nicola Sturgeon
Boris Johnson
Party
SNP
Conservative
Leader since
14 November 2014
23 July 2019
Last election
35 seats, 36.9%
13 seats, 28.6%
Seats won
48[n 1]
6
Seat change
13
7
Popular vote
1,242,380
692,939
Percentage
45.0%
25.1%
Swing
8.1pp
3.5pp
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
Jo Swinson (lost seat)
Jeremy Corbyn
Party
Liberal Democrats
Labour
Leader since
22 July 2019
12 September 2015
Last election
4 seats, 6.8%
7 seats, 27.1%
Seats won
4
1
Seat change
6
Popular vote
263,417
511,838
Percentage
9.5%
18.6%
Swing
2.8pp
8.5pp
Coloured according to the winning party's vote share in each constituency
The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 12 December 2019,[1] two and a half years after the previous general election in June 2017. The Scottish National Party (SNP) received the most votes (45%, up 8.1% from the previous election) and won 48[n 1] out of 59 seats—a gain of 13 over those won in 2017, and 81% of the Scottish seats in the House of Commons.[2]
SNP gains came at the expense of both Labour and the Conservatives. The Tories remained the largest unionist party in Scotland even though they lost more than half of their Scottish seats, winning six compared to thirteen in 2017. Labour was reduced to only one seat, down from seven. The Liberal Democrats managed to win four Scottish seats for no net change, although party leader Jo Swinson (herself the only major party leader to stand for election in Scotland) was unseated in her bid for re-election by her SNP challenger.
Labour's vote share was its lowest at a Westminster election in Scotland since December 1910.[3][4]
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