October 1974 United Kingdom general election in Scotland

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October 1974 United Kingdom general election

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All 71 Scottish seats to the House of Commons
Turnout	74.81%, 4.05%
First party Second party   Leader Harold Wilson Edward Heath Party Labour Conservative Leader since 14 February 1963 28 July 1965 Last election 40 seats, 36.6% 21 seats, 32.9% Seats won 41 16 Seat change 1 5 Popular vote 1,000,581 681,327 Percentage 36.3% 24.7% Swing 0.3% 8.2%   Third party Fourth party   Leader William Wolfe Jeremy Thorpe Party SNP Liberal Leader since 1 June 1969 18 January 1967 Last election 7 seats, 21.9% 3 seats, 7.9% Seats won 11 3 Seat change 4 Popular vote 839,617 228,855 Percentage 30.4% 8.3% Swing 8.5% 0.4%
Results of the Oct. 1974 election in Scotland

These are the results of the October 1974 United Kingdom general election in Scotland. The election was held on Thursday 10 October 1974 and all 71 seats in Scotland were contested.^[1]

MPs[]

List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (October 1974–1979)

Results[]

Party		Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	41	1	1,000,581	36.3	0.3
	Conservative	16	5	681,327	24.7	8.2
	SNP	11	4	839,617	30.4	8.5
	Liberal	3		228,855	8.3	0.4
rowspan="1" style="width: 2px; background-color: #DDDDBB;" data-sort-value="Other"; |	Other	0		7,721	0.28	0.4
Turnout:				2,758,101	74.81

Votes summary[]

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