1970 United Kingdom general election in Scotland

These are the results of the 1970 United Kingdom general election in Scotland. The election was held on Thursday 18 June 1970 and all 71 seats in Scotland were contested.[1]

1970 United Kingdom general election

All 71 Scottish seats to the House of Commons

	First party	Second party

Leader	Harold Wilson	Edward Heath
Party	Labour	Conservative
Last election	46 seats, 49.9%	20 seats, 37.6%
Seats won	44	23
Seat change	2	3
Popular vote	1,197,068	1,020,674
Percentage	44.5%	38.0%
Swing	5.4%	0.4%

	Third party	Fourth party
	Lib
Leader	Jeremy Thorpe	William Wolfe
Party	Liberal	SNP
Last election	5 seats, 6.8%	0 seats, 5.0%
Seats won	3	1
Seat change	2	1
Popular vote	147,667	306,802
Percentage	5.5%	11.4%
Swing	1.3%	6.4%

Results of the 1970 election in Scotland

MPs

List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1970–February 1974)

Results

Party		Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% change
	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

Votes summary

Popular vote

Labour			44.5%
Conservative			38.0%
SNP			11.4%
Liberal			5.5%
Other			0.6%

Parliament seats

Labour			61.97%
Conservative			32.39%
Liberal			4.22%
SNP			1.40%

References

"Commons results report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 November 2020.

1970 United Kingdom general election
MPs elected Scotland
Incumbent Prime Minister: Harold Wilson (Labour) Appointed Prime Minister: Edward Heath (Conservative)
Parties elected to the House of Commons	Conservative (Edward Heath) Ulster Unionist Party (James Chichester-Clark) Labour (Harold Wilson) Liberal (Jeremy Thorpe) Unity Protestant Unionist Party (Ian Paisley) Scottish National Party (William Wolfe) Republican Labour Party (Gerry Fitt)
Results by area	Northern Ireland Scotland
See also	Accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities S. O. Davies Selsdon man Yesterday's Men

Elections and referendums in Scotland
Scottish Parliament	1999 2003 2007 2011 2016 2021 Next
Parliament of Scotland	1612 1617 1621 1628 1639 1644 1648 1661 1669 1681 1685 1702
Convention of Estates	1617 1625 1630 1643 1665 1667 1678 1689
UK Parliament	1801 co-option 1802 1806 1807 1812 1818 1820 1826 1830 1831 1832 1835 1837 1841 1847 1852 1857 1859 1865 1868 1874 1880 1885 1886 1892 1895 1900 1906 1910 (Jan) 1910 (Dec) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (Feb) 1974 (Oct) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Local elections	1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1977 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1995 1999 2003 2007 2012 2017 2022
Referendums	1979 1997 2014

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