1964 United Kingdom general election in Scotland

1964 United Kingdom general election

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All 71 Scottish seats to the House of Commons

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Harold Wilson	Alec Douglas-Home	Jo Grimond
Party	Labour	Unionist	Liberal
Last election	38 seats, 46.7%	31 seats, 47.3%	1 seat, 4.1%
Seats won	43	24^[a]	4
Seat change	Increase5	Decrease7	Increase 3
Popular vote	1,283,667	1,069,695	200,063
Percentage	48.7%	40.6%	7.6%
Swing	Increase2.0%	Decrease6.7%	Increase3.5%

Results of the 1964 election in Scotland

Conservative/Unionist

Labour

Liberal

Main article: 1964 United Kingdom general election

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 aligned 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 separate 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

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List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1964–1966)

Results

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Party			Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% Change
	Labour Party		43	Increase 5	1,283,667	48.7	Increase 2.0
	Conservative and Unionist (Total)		24	Decrease7	1,069,695	40.6	Decrease6.7
		Unionist	24	Decrease 1	981,641	37.3	Decrease 2.5
		National Liberal & Conservative	0	Decrease 6	88,054	3.3	Decrease 4.2
	Liberal		4	Increase 3	200,063	7.6	Increase 3.5
	SNP		0	Steady	64,044	2.4	Increase 1.6
	Communist		0	Steady	12,241	0.5	Steady 0.0
	Other		0	Steady	4,829	0.2	Increase 0.1
Total			71	2,634,539	100

Votes summary

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Popular vote^[a]
Labour			48.72%
Unionist			40.60%
Liberal			7.59%
SNP			2.43%
Other			0.64%

Parliamentary seats^[a]
Labour			60.56%
Unionist			33.80%
Liberal			5.63%

Notes

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^ ^a ^b ^c The seat and vote count figures for the Unionists given here include the National Liberals

References

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^ "Commons results report" (PDF). House of Commons Information Office. May 2010. ISSN 0144-4689. 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 20 November 2024.

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