A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 18 June 1970 and all 71 seats in Scotland were contested.[1] The Labour Party won the most seats for the fourth consecutive election, whilst the Scottish National Party won a seat for the first time in a general election, having won their first ever Westminster seat at the 1945 Motherwell by-election and another shock victory in the Hamilton by-election in 1967.[2]
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Results of the 1970 election in Scotland |
List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1970–February 1974)
Party | Seats | Seats change |
Votes | % | % change | |
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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 | |
Other | 0 | 16,024 | 0.6 | |||
Turnout: | 2,688,235 |