1906 United Kingdom general election in Scotland

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All 72 Scottish seats to theHouse of Commons
First party Second party Third party   Leader Henry Campbell-Bannerman Arthur Balfour Keir Hardie Party Liberal Conservative and Liberal Unionist Labour Repr. Cmte. Last election 34[a] 38[a][c] 0 Seats won 58 10[c] 2 Seat change 24 26 2 Popular vote 336,400[b] 225,802[b][c] 16,897[b] Percentage 56.4% 37.8% 2.8% Swing 6.2pp 11.2pp New
Results of the 1906 election in Scotland for the county and burgh seats   Liberal   Conservative   Liberal Unionist   Labour

The1906 United Kingdom general election was held between 12 January and 8 February 1906, and members were returned for allScottish seats.^[1] Scotland was allocated 72 seats in total, with 70 territorial seats, comprising 32burgh constituencies and 37county constituencies.^[d] There were also twouniversity constituencies,Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities andEdinburgh and St Andrews Universities. As voters in university constituencies voted in addition to their territorial vote, the results are compiled separately.

In Scotland the oppositionLiberals underHenry Campbell-Bannerman won a crushing victory, winning 56.4% of vote and 58 out of Scotland's 72 seats. The figure of 56.4% has not been surpassed by any single party in any election since, although the coalition of parties forming theNational Government would secure 64.0% at the1931 election. When combined with results from across the United Kingdom the result was a landslide victory for the Liberals against a bewilderedConservative Party, whose leader,Arthur Balfour, lost his seat; the party won the lowest number of seats it ever had in its history, a nadir unsurpassed until2024. The primary reason given by historians for the Conservatives' weakness resulted from the party's split over the issue offree trade (Joseph Chamberlain had resigned from government in September 1903 in order to campaign forTariff Reform, which would allow "preferential tariffs"). Many working-class people at the time saw this as a threat to the price of food, hence the debate was nicknamed "Big Loaf, Little Loaf". The Liberals' landslide victory of 125 seats over all other parties led to the passing of social legislation known as theLiberal reforms.^[2][3]

TheScottish Workers' Representation Committee (SWRC) stood five candidates: John Robertson inNorth East Lanarkshire,Joseph Sullivan inNorth West Lanarkshire,David Gilmour inFalkirk Burghs,James Brown inNorth Ayrshire, and Robert Smillie inPaisley. The candidates altogether won a total of 14,877 votes, but all failed to win a single seat.^[4] TheLabour Representation Committee (which after the election would be renamed the Labour Party) was more successful, picking up 2 Scottish seats (George Barnes inGlasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown andAlexander Wilkie inDundee), alongside a total of 29 seats across the UK. Following the SWRC's failure to secure representation, the organisation decided to align itself more closely with the newLabour Party,^[5] eventually becoming theparty's Scottish section.

Party			Seats	Last Election	Seats change
	Liberal		58	34	24
	Conservative and Liberal Unionist (Total)		12	38	26
		Conservative	7	20	13
		Liberal Unionist	5	18	13
	Labour Representation Committee		2	0	2
Total			72	72

Party			Seats[1]	Seats change	Votes[1]	%	% Change
	Liberal		58	24	336,400	56.4	6.2
	Conservative and Liberal Unionist		10	26	225,802	37.8	11.2
	Labour Representation Committee		2	2	16,897	2.8	New
	Scottish Workers' Representation Committee		0		14,877	2.5	1.9
	Other		0		2,938	0.5
Total			70		596,914	100.0

The twouniversity constituencies each elected an additional member to the house. Both seats were uncontested at the previous election, with the winning candidates having been elected unopposed.

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