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A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 25 October 1951, and all 71 seats inScotland were contested.[1][2] TheUnionists, together with their allies theNational Liberals, ended up narrowly ahead ofLabour in terms of vote share, however the two were equal in terms of seats won, each taking 35 seats. When combined with results from across the UK, the Conservatives (with whom the Unionists sat at Westminster) won a majority of 17 seats, despite winning slightly fewer votes than Labour. The election is noteworthy for being, as of 2024, the last election in which the Conservatives did better in Scotland than in England. It is also the most recent election where no party won a majority of Scottish seats.
TheLiberals were reduced to one Scottish seat,Orkney and Shetland, losing their only other seat (Roxburgh and Selkirk) to the Unionists.
| Party | Seats[2] | Seats change | Votes[2] | % | % Change | ||
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| Conservative and Unionist (Total) | 35 |  4 | 1,349,298 | 48.6 | 3.8 | ||
| Unionist | 29 | 3 | 1,108,321 | 39.9 | 2.7 | ||
| National Liberal &Conservative | 6 | 1[b] | 240,977 | 8.7 | 1.1 | ||
| Labour Party | 35 |  2 | 1,330,244 | 47.9 | 1.7 | ||
| Liberal | 1 | 1 | 76,291 | 2.7 | 3.9 | ||
| Communist | 0 |  | 10,947 | 0.4 | 0.6 | ||
| SNP | 0 | | 7,299 | 0.3 | 0.1 | ||
| Other | 0 | 1[b] | 3,758 | 0.1 | 0.9 | ||
| Total | 71 | 2,777,837 | 100.0 | ||||
| Turnout: | 81.2[3] | 0.3 | |||||
| Unionist | 48.57% | |||
| Labour | 47.89% | |||
| Liberal | 2.75% | |||
| Other | 0.79% | |||
| Unionist | 49.30% | |||
| Labour | 49.30% | |||
| Liberal | 1.41% | |||
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