1964 United Kingdom general election in Scotland
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 Results of the 1964 election in Scotland Conservative/Unionist Labour Liberal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday, 15 October 1964 and all 71 seats in Scotland were contested.[1] The election saw both Labour and the Liberals pick up seats from the Unionists. The National Liberals, who were alligned with the Unionists, lost all their remaining seats.
Combined with results from across the UK, the election resulted in the Conservative and Unionist Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, narrowly losing to Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson; Labour secured a parliamentary majority of four seats and ended a thirteen-year period in opposition. Wilson became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Rosebery in 1894.
The election was the last election fought by the Unionists as a seperate party. From April 1965 the party was renamed as the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, and became the Scottish branch of the UK Conservative Party.[2][3]
MPs
[edit]List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1964–1966)
Results
[edit]| Party | Seats | Seats change | Votes | % | % Change | ||
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| Labour Party | 43 |  5
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1,283,667 | 48.7 | 2.0
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| Conservative and Unionist (Total) | 24 |  7
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1,069,695 | 40.6 | 6.7
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| Unionist | 24 | 1
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981,641 | 37.3 | 2.5
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| National Liberal & Conservative | 0 | 6
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88,054 | 3.3 | 4.2
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| Liberal | 4 | 3
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200,063 | 7.6 | 3.5
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| SNP | 0 | 
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64,044 | 2.4 | 1.6
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| Communist | 0 |
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12,241 | 0.5 | 0.0
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| Other | 0 |
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4,829 | 0.2 | 0.1
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| Total | 71 | 2,634,539 | 100 | ||||
Votes summary
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ The seat and vote count figures for the Unionists given here include the National Liberals
References
[edit]- ^ "Commons results report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 November 2020.
- ^ Torrance, David (April 2018). "'Standing up for Scotland': The Scottish Unionist Party and 'nationalist unionism', 1912–68". Scottish Affairs. 27 (2): 180. doi:10.3366/scot.2018.0235 – via Edinburgh University Press.
- ^ Urwin, D.W. (1 June 1966). "Scottish Conservatism: A Party Organization in Transition". Political Studies. 14 (2): 145–162. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.1966.tb00399.x. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
