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A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday, 15 October 1964 and all 71 seats inScotland were contested.[1][2] The election saw bothLabour and theLiberals pick up seats from theUnionists. TheNational Liberals, who were aligned with the Unionists, lost all their remaining seats.
Combined with results from across the UK, the election resulted in theConservative and Unionist Party, led by incumbentPrime MinisterAlec Douglas-Home, narrowly losing to the Labour Party, led byHarold Wilson; Labour secured aparliamentary majority of four seats and ended a thirteen-year period in opposition. Wilson became the youngest Prime Minister sinceLord Rosebery in 1894.
The election was the last election fought by the Unionists as a separate party. From April 1965 the party was renamed as theScottish Conservative and Unionist Party, and became the Scottish branch of the UK Conservative Party.[3][4]
List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1964–1966)
| Party | Seats[2] | Seats change | Votes[2] | % | % Change | ||
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| Labour Party | 43 |  5 | 1,283,667 | 48.7 | 2.0 | ||
| Conservative and Unionist (Total) | 24 |  7 | 1,069,695 | 40.6 | 6.7 | ||
| Unionist | 24 | 1 | 981,641 | 37.3 | 2.5 | ||
| National Liberal &Conservative | 0 | 6 | 88,054 | 3.3 | 4.2 | ||
| Liberal | 4 | 3 | 200,063 | 7.6 | 3.5 | ||
| SNP | 0 |  | 64,044 | 2.4 | 1.6 | ||
| Communist | 0 | | 12,241 | 0.5 | | ||
| Other | 0 | | 4,829 | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||
| Total | 71 | 2,634,539 | 100.0 | ||||
| Labour | 48.72% | |||
| Unionist | 40.60% | |||
| Liberal | 7.59% | |||
| SNP | 2.43% | |||
| Other | 0.64% | |||
| Labour | 60.56% | |||
| Unionist | 33.80% | |||
| Liberal | 5.63% | |||
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