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All71 Scottish seats to theHouse of Commons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Results of the 1970 election in Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 18 June 1970 and all 71 seats inScotland were contested.[1][2] TheLabour Party won the most seats for the fourth consecutive election, whilst theScottish National Party won a seat for the first time in a general election, having won their first ever Westminster seat at the1945 Motherwell by-election and another shock victory in theHamilton by-election in 1967.[3]
List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1970–February 1974)
| Party | Seats[2] | Seats change | Votes[2] | % | % change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 44 |  2 | 1,197,068 | 44.5 | 5.4 | |
| Conservative | 23 |  3 | 1,020,674 | 38.0 | 0.4 | |
| SNP | 1 | 1 | 306,802 | 11.4 | 6.4 | |
| Liberal | 3 | 2 | 147,667 | 5.5 | 1.3 | |
| Communist | 0 |  | 11,408 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
| Other | 0 | | 4,616 | 0.2 | ||
| Turnout: | 2,688,235 | 74.1[4] | 1.9 | |||
| Labour | 44.53% | |||
| Conservative | 37.97% | |||
| SNP | 11.41% | |||
| Liberal | 5.49% | |||
| Other | 0.60% | |||
| Labour | 61.97% | |||
| Conservative | 32.39% | |||
| Liberal | 4.22% | |||
| SNP | 1.40% | |||
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