1945 general election
Scotland: 1945 general election results
How Scotland voted at the 1945 general election: Labour won 35 of 71 seats with 47.6% of the vote. Every constituency result.
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36 for a majority Lab 35 Con 24 Nat Lib 3 Oth 3 ILP 3 Com 1 Change compared with the 1935 general election in Scotland.
Constituency Winner Majority % Turnout Result
Aberdeen North 17,130 44.6 67.2% Aberdeen South 1,816 4.4 71.9% Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Central 7,705 25.6 68.3% Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Eastern 2,372 9.8 65.7% Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Kincardine and Western 642 3.0 68.7% Argyll 6,902 24.7 63.7% Ayr District of Burghs 728 1.6 71.5% Ayrshire and Bute Bute and Northern 2,443 6.0 68.5% Ayrshire and Bute Kilmarnock 7,537 18.8 76.1% Ayrshire and Bute South Ayrshire 7,853 22.7 75.0% Banffshire 4,288 19.8 66.5% Berwickshire and Haddingtonshire 3,157 9.0 70.3% Caithness and Sutherland 6 0.0 64.0% Dumbarton District of Burghs 7,586 30.4 73.2% Dumfriesshire 4,077 11.8 72.2% Dunbartonshire 747 1.3 71.7% Dundee 2-member seat: not split by party in the source — — 79.2% Dunfermline District of Burghs 9,993 29.4 73.0% Edinburgh Central 4,220 21.0 59.5% Edinburgh East 6,529 19.1 69.4% Edinburgh North 555 2.0 64.6% Edinburgh South 13,885 41.6 66.4% Edinburgh West 1,054 2.5 67.5% Fife Eastern 13,845 38.8 70.8% Fife Western 2,056 4.9 75.4% Forfarshire 5,416 20.5 68.9% Galloway 1,825 5.5 69.9% Glasgow Bridgeton 6,525 32.8 58.2% Glasgow Camlachie 4,159 15.4 65.0% Glasgow Cathcart 5,549 17.7 67.6% Glasgow Central 1,516 7.1 59.6% Glasgow Gorbals 15,804 60.0 56.8% Glasgow Govan 9,082 32.1 63.9% Glasgow Hillhead 6,364 25.0 65.8% Glasgow Kelvingrove 88 0.3 61.7% Glasgow Maryhill 7,902 20.1 66.8% Glasgow Partick 853 3.2 69.0% Glasgow Pollok 8,510 26.9 68.2% Glasgow Shettleston 1,494 4.4 66.6% Glasgow Springburn 10,008 30.0 63.6% Glasgow St Rollox 5,967 25.9 61.1% Glasgow Tradeston 4,282 19.4 62.0% Greenock 8,089 23.5 68.0% Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Inverness 2,435 8.7 59.0% Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Ross and Cromarty 4,102 25.6 61.9% Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Western Isles 1,637 12.6 53.3% Kirkcaldy District of Burghs 5,302 15.5 76.2% Lanarkshire Bothwell 12,162 31.5 73.0% Lanarkshire Coatbridge 6,777 22.3 76.0% Lanarkshire Hamilton 12,789 47.0 70.0% Lanarkshire Lanark 1,884 5.6 74.8% Lanarkshire Motherwell 7,809 26.0 72.8% Lanarkshire Northern 9,762 19.2 73.3% Lanarkshire Rutherglen 8,002 19.3 76.4% Leith 9,455 29.4 69.1% Linlithgowshire 10,891 28.2 73.2% Midlothian and Peeblesshire Northern 1,177 2.3 70.1% Midlothian and Peeblesshire Peebles and Southern 6,496 23.3 73.5% Montrose District of Burghs 3,955 16.5 72.3% Moray and Nairnshire 4,816 23.2 61.8% Orkney and Shetland 329 1.9 55.5% Paisley 10,330 22.8 73.9% Perthshire and Kinross Shire Kinross and Western 8,754 36.0 67.4% Perthshire and Kinross Shire Perth 10,867 30.5 65.3% Renfrewshire Eastern 5,676 7.2 67.2% Renfrewshire Western 1,214 3.9 70.2% Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire 1,628 4.7 73.6% Stirling and Falkirk District of Burghs 4,003 12.3 71.5% Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire Clackmannan and Eastern 10,100 25.8 71.7% Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire Western 2,577 8.7 75.0%
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Questions and answers Who won in Scotland at the 1945 general election? Labour won 35 of the 71 seats in Scotland, with 47.6% of the vote.
How many seats were there in Scotland in 1945? 71 constituencies.
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