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The 2024 general election was held on 4 July 2024. 57 Scottish Westminster seats were contested. The election saw a resurgence of Labour within Scotland, with the party winning 37 seats, an increase of 36 from the previous election and becoming the largest party in Scotland for the first time since 2010.
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Scottish constituencies for the fifty-ninth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2024–present). It includes MPs elected at the 2024 general election, held on 4 July 2024. The number of constituences in Scotland reduced from 59 to 57 at this ...
Scottish Greens: Patrick Harvie & Lorna Slater: 44 0 0 0 0.0 92,685 0.32 0.2 Social Democratic & Labour: Colum Eastwood: 18 2 0 0 0.3 86,861 0.30 0.1 Traditional Unionist Voice: Jim Allister: 14 1 Did not stand in 2019 0.1 48,685 0.17 — Social Democratic Party: William Clouston: 122 0 0 0 0.0 33,811 0.12 0.1 Speaker [d] Lindsay Hoyle: 1 1 0 0 ...
The 2024 United Kingdom general election took place on 4 July 2024. [1] Counting began after conclusion of voting at 22:00 the same day and the results for almost all constituencies were declared in the early hours of 5 July. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party lost over 240 seats
Under the Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020, an ordinary general election to the Scottish Parliament would normally be held on the first Thursday in May five years after the 2021 election, i.e. on 7 May 2026. [1] This Act superseded the Scotland Act 1998, which had set elections in every fourth year. [2]
Social Democratic and Labour Party: 18 Ulster Unionist Party: 17 Democratic Unionist Party: 16 Party of Women: 16 [16] Scottish Family Party: 16 English Democrats: 15 [l] Communist Party of Britain: 14 Sinn Féin: 14 (abstentionist party) Traditional Unionist Voice: 14 Climate Party: 13 Liberal Party: 12 Socialist Labour Party: 12 Green Party ...
CON – Conservative Party, including National Liberal Party up to 1966; LAB – Labour Party, including Labour and Co-operative Party; LIB – Liberal Party up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992; SNP – Scottish National Party; UKIP – UK Independence Party 2010 to 2017 (included in Other up to 2005 and ...
The elections were held again using the STV system of proportional representation, and as with the 2012 Scottish local elections, they were delayed for one year to ensure they were not held on the same day as the 2016 Scottish Parliament elections (which was delayed for a year, owing to the 2015 general election).