Scotland, 1924 vs 1929: seat-by-seat change

Every constituency in Scotland compared between the 1924 and 1929 general elections: which seats changed hands and how far each swung.

Constituency	1924	1929	Majority	Con–Lab swing
Aberdeen North	Lab	Lab	27.4%	+19.6
Aberdeen South	Con	Con	21.7%	−0.8
Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Central	Con	Con	5.0%	0
Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Eastern	Con	Con	13.8%	+4.0
Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Kincardine and Western	Con	Lib gain	3.5%	+3.1
Argyll	Con	Con	12.0%	+1.7
Ayr District of Burghs	Con	Con	9.4%	+7.6
Ayrshire and Bute Bute and Northern	Con	Con	12.4%	+5.5
Ayrshire and Bute Kilmarnock	Con	Lab gain	17.9%	+11.1
Ayrshire and Bute South Ayrshire	Lab	Lab	16.2%	+7.7
Banffshire	Con	Lib gain	12.2%	+5.6
Berwickshire and Haddingtonshire	Con	Lab gain	1.0%	+6.1
Caithness and Sutherland	Lib	Lib	57.2%	−8.4
Dumbarton District of Burghs	Lab	Lab	26.2%	+3.9
Dumfriesshire	Con	Lib gain	8.9%	+2.8
Dunbartonshire	Con	Lab gain	4.0%	+7.7
Dunfermline District of Burghs	Lab	Lab	23.5%	−17.2
Edinburgh Central	Lab	Lab	35.3%	+10.4
Edinburgh East	Lab	Lab	17.8%	+4.3
Edinburgh North	Con	Con	7.5%	+6.9
Edinburgh South	Con	Con	28.1%	+11.1
Edinburgh West	Con	Lab gain	6.9%	+5.2
Fife Eastern	Con	Lib gain	1.7%	+13.9
Fife Western	Lab	Lab	39.5%	−0.7
Forfarshire	Con	Con	9.3%	+4.6
Galloway	Con	Lib gain	0.3%	+13.2
Glasgow Bridgeton	Lab	Lab	35.3%	+6.4
Glasgow Camlachie	Lab	Lab	11.2%	+5.2
Glasgow Cathcart	Con	Con	6.9%	+11.6
Glasgow Central	Con	Con	1.9%	+8.2
Glasgow Gorbals	Lab	Lab	49.7%	+9.0
Glasgow Govan	Lab	Lab	15.4%	−5.5
Glasgow Hillhead	Con	Con	26.7%	+4.3
Glasgow Kelvingrove	Con	Con	5.3%	+5.7
Glasgow Maryhill	Con	Lab gain	9.4%	+7.3
Glasgow Partick	Con	Lab gain	1.4%	+8.5
Glasgow Pollok	Con	Con	38.4%	+6.1
Glasgow Shettleston	Lab	Lab	20.7%	+9.1
Glasgow Springburn	Lab	Lab	31.0%	+9.0
Glasgow St Rollox	Lab	Lab	25.5%	−16.9
Glasgow Tradeston	Lab	Lab	15.8%	−20.1
Greenock	Lab	Lib gain	4.3%	−21.1
Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Inverness	Lib	Lib	10.5%	+3.7
Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Ross and Cromarty	Lib	Lib	17.5%	+20.6
Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Western Isles	Lib	Lib	11.7%	+10.2
Kirkcaldy District of Burghs	Lab	Lab	19.2%	−16.8
Lanarkshire Bothwell	Lab	Lab	16.0%	+1.7
Lanarkshire Coatbridge	Lab	Lab	25.0%	+12.4
Lanarkshire Hamilton	Lab	Lab	35.7%	+7.0
Lanarkshire Lanark	Con	Lab gain	7.8%	+6.3
Lanarkshire Motherwell	Lab	Lab	31.8%	+13.8
Lanarkshire Northern	Con	Lab gain	11.8%	+9.8
Lanarkshire Rutherglen	Lab	Lab	15.8%	+5.8
Leith	Lib	Lib	13.5%	+1.4
Linlithgowshire	Con	Lab gain	19.5%	+10.9
Midlothian and Peeblesshire Northern	Con	Con	1.5%	+4.5
Midlothian and Peeblesshire Peebles and Southern	Lab	Lab	14.0%	+4.2
Montrose District of Burghs	Lib	Lib	11.1%	+0.8
Moray and Nairnshire	Con	Con	11.5%	+6.2
Orkney and Shetland	Lib	Lib	20.9%	−19.8
Paisley	Lab	Lab	29.4%	−7.7
Perthshire and Kinross Shire Kinross and Western	Con	Con	12.4%	+5.3
Perthshire and Kinross Shire Perth	Con	Con	4.3%	+6.2
Renfrewshire Eastern	Con	Con	4.4%	+3.5
Renfrewshire Western	Con	Lab gain	7.2%	+7.7
Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire	Con	Con	3.6%	+4.6
Stirling and Falkirk District of Burghs	Lab	Lab	16.2%	−18.9
Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire Clackmannan and Eastern	Lab	Lab	26.8%	−12.9
Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire Western	Con	Lab gain	13.4%	+7.5

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