1950 general election
Scotland: 1950 general election results
How Scotland voted at the 1950 general election: Labour won 37 of 71 seats with 46.4% of the vote. Every constituency result.
← 1945 1951 → Change compared with the 1945 general election in Scotland.
Constituency Winner Majority % Turnout Result
Aberdeen North 15,889 30.4 82.9% Aberdeen South 8,826 18.1 84.9% Aberdeenshire East 12,085 31.9 75.6% Aberdeenshire West 10,252 32.5 80.9% Angus and Kincardinshire North Angus and Mearns 7,181 23.9 81.4% Angus and Kincardinshire South Angus 10,148 28.3 82.0% Argyll 10,044 34.7 75.1% Ayrshire and Bute Ayr 6,214 17.3 84.7% Ayrshire and Bute Bute and North Ayrshire 9,776 28.5 79.1% Ayrshire and Bute Central Ayrshire 1,962 5.1 85.6% Ayrshire and Bute Kilmarnock 8,233 20.8 86.2% Ayrshire and Bute South Ayrshire 7,567 20.5 85.4% Banffshire 7,649 31.9 74.1% Berwickshire and East Lothian 1,728 4.1 82.8% Caithness and Sutherland 269 1.4 76.5% Coatbridge and Airdrie 6,787 16.5 86.1% Dumfriesshire 8,243 18.6 78.6% Dunbartonshire East 4,576 9.3 86.0% Dunbartonshire West 613 1.5 85.5% Dundee East 4,347 8.9 88.6% Dundee West 4,701 8.9 88.1% Dunfermline Burghs 8,674 22.5 83.9% Edinburgh Central 2,937 8.5 74.3% Edinburgh East 6,541 14.5 83.2% Edinburgh Leith 2,270 6.2 80.7% Edinburgh North 4,143 11.9 78.7% Edinburgh Pentlands 5,195 11.4 82.0% Edinburgh South 14,356 40.4 82.1% Edinburgh West 12,601 28.0 82.8% Fife East 15,055 37.3 81.6% Fife West 13,445 39.9 66.5% Glasgow Bridgeton 9,243 27.1 76.9% Glasgow Camlachie 1,247 3.1 80.7% Glasgow Cathcart 14,072 37.4 83.8% Glasgow Central 3,004 11.0 74.0% Glasgow Gorbals 11,059 26.6 77.3% Glasgow Govan 373 0.9 84.0% Glasgow Hillhead 10,261 26.9 82.2% Glasgow Kelvingrove 1,224 4.0 78.8% Glasgow Maryhill 10,431 29.0 80.0% Glasgow Pollok 7,789 17.5 81.3% Glasgow Scotstoun 239 0.6 84.6% Glasgow Shettleston 8,241 19.9 79.9% Glasgow Springburn 11,937 27.8 76.9% Glasgow Tradeston 10,894 25.8 78.8% Glasgow Woodside 1,079 3.1 80.2% Greenock 8,909 22.0 83.2% Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Inverness 4,820 13.7 68.6% Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Ross and Cromarty 4,391 25.2 63.1% Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Western Isles 1,437 9.1 55.7% Kirkcaldy Burghs 8,564 19.9 84.8% Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire Galloway 9,080 31.1 63.0% Lanarkshire Bothwell 6,110 13.5 84.5% Lanarkshire Hamilton 16,737 40.0 81.7% Lanarkshire Lanark 685 1.8 84.7% Lanarkshire Motherwell 8,425 20.2 84.5% Lanarkshire North 7,350 19.3 84.7% Lanarkshire Rutherglen 695 1.8 86.1% Midlothian and Peeblesshire 7,188 14.1 82.9% Moray and Nairnshire 5,095 19.7 75.0% Orkney and Shetland 2,956 15.0 67.7% Paisley 10,203 19.6 84.0% Perthshire and Kinross Shire Kinross and West Perthshire 8,116 29.4 76.9% Perthshire and Kinross Shire Perth and East Perthshire 13,144 29.7 81.6% Renfrewshire East 14,934 30.9 78.9% Renfrewshire West 3,030 7.9 77.6% Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire 1,156 3.0 82.1% Stirling and Falkirk District of Burghs 1,554 3.4 84.4% Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire 9,350 23.0 83.4% Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire West Stirlingshire 4,036 11.3 85.7% West Lothian 11,237 25.0 79.1%
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Questions and answers Who won in Scotland at the 1950 general election? Labour won 37 of the 71 seats in Scotland, with 46.4% of the vote.
How many seats were there in Scotland in 1950? 71 constituencies.
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