Scotland: 1955 general election results

How Scotland voted at the 1955 general election: the Conservatives won 36 of 71 seats with 50.1% of the vote. Every constituency result.

36 for a majority

Con36
Lab34
Lib1

Scotland: results by party
Party	Seats	Change	Votes	Share	Change	Candidates
Conservative	36	+7	1,273,942	50.1%	+10.2	71
Labour	34	−1	1,188,058	46.7%	−1.2	71
Liberal	1	0	47,273	1.9%	−0.9	5
Others	0	0	21,869	0.9%	+0.7	7
1 other parties and independents			12,112	0.5%

Change compared with the 1951 general election in Scotland.

Constituencies

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Constituency	Winner	Majority	%	Turnout
Aberdeen North	Lab	16,796	33.9	74.6%
Aberdeen South	Con	7,190	15.5	81.1%
Argyll	Con	9,915	35.3	66.6%
Ayr	Con	6,140	18.1	77.1%
Banff	Con	8,306	39.6	54.7%
Berwick and East Lothian	Con	2,710	6.7	80.3%
Bothwell	Lab	3,610	8.4	78.9%
Bute and North Ayrshire	Con	9,155	29.0	71.5%
Caithness and Sutherland	Con	5,089	27.5	69.5%
Central Ayrshire	Con	167	0.4	83.3%
Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire	Lab	7,009	17.5	79.8%
Coatbridge and Airdrie	Lab	4,664	11.7	79.4%
Dumfries	Con	9,078	22.7	73.7%
Dundee East	Lab	4,040	8.6	82.3%
Dundee West	Lab	1,874	3.6	82.7%
Dunfermline Burghs	Lab	7,976	22.0	77.6%
East Aberdeenshire	Con	10,057	37.1	59.8%
East Dunbartonshire	Lab	1,130	2.3	81.6%
East Fife	Con	15,232	41.2	73.2%
East Renfrewshire	Con	16,588	36.6	78.1%
Edinburgh Central	Lab	939	2.9	68.8%
Edinburgh East	Lab	2,042	5.1	75.4%
Edinburgh Leith	Lab	5,644	17.1	77.8%
Edinburgh North	Con	7,761	23.5	72.0%
Edinburgh Pentlands	Con	7,485	19.0	77.3%
Edinburgh South	Con	12,887	35.0	77.2%
Edinburgh West	Con	13,216	34.1	75.7%
Galloway	Con	8,014	33.7	69.1%
Glasgow Bridgeton	Lab	8,101	22.8	66.0%
Glasgow Cathcart	Con	15,751	45.3	75.7%
Glasgow Central	Lab	6,367	23.6	64.1%
Glasgow Craigton	Con	210	0.6	79.1%
Glasgow Gorbals	Lab	10,728	29.1	65.2%
Glasgow Govan	Lab	9,602	24.0	71.8%
Glasgow Hillhead	Con	10,458	35.2	72.9%
Glasgow Kelvingrove	Con	2,888	10.8	67.6%
Glasgow Maryhill	Lab	8,638	25.6	69.9%
Glasgow Pollok	Con	8,845	22.6	75.5%
Glasgow Provan	Lab	180	0.6	74.7%
Glasgow Scotstoun	Con	428	1.2	79.5%
Glasgow Shettleston	Lab	5,819	15.7	69.3%
Glasgow Springburn	Lab	5,773	20.6	69.1%
Glasgow Woodside	Con	4,303	12.2	72.8%
Greenock	Lab	1,033	2.7	77.9%
Hamilton	Lab	13,526	34.8	76.1%
Inverness	Con	966	2.8	67.6%
Kilmarnock	Lab	8,341	21.8	81.1%
Kinross and West Perthshire	Con	12,158	50.4	70.5%
Kirkcaldy Burghs	Lab	7,469	18.6	75.2%
Lanark	Con	958	2.2	85.9%
Midlothian	Lab	8,786	20.3	78.1%
Moray and Nairn	Con	5,129	21.2	67.9%
Motherwell	Lab	2,885	7.7	76.5%
North Angus and Mearns	Con	10,193	38.0	72.3%
North Lanarkshire	Lab	5,523	15.7	81.5%
Orkney and Zetland	Lib	7,993	43.4	66.1%
Paisley	Lab	6,098	12.8	76.2%
Perth and East Perthshire	Con	13,721	33.9	73.5%
Ross and Cromarty	Con	3,926	24.6	61.9%
Roxburgh Selkirk and Peebles	Con	7,170	15.6	80.8%
Rutherglen	Con	2,101	5.8	84.1%
South Angus	Con	14,971	45.4	73.6%
South Ayrshire	Lab	8,209	23.2	76.8%
Stirling and Falkirk	Lab	1,306	3.1	79.7%
West Aberdeenshire	Con	10,928	31.9	72.6%
West Dunbartonshire	Lab	1,952	4.7	84.8%
West Fife	Lab	16,211	37.8	80.3%
West Lothian	Lab	8,307	19.3	75.4%
West Renfrewshire	Con	4,040	10.5	83.0%
West Stirlingshire	Lab	3,214	9.3	80.4%
Western Isles	Lab	2,172	14.7	59.6%

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Questions and answers

Who won in Scotland at the 1955 general election?

The Conservatives won 36 of the 71 seats in Scotland, with 50.1% of the vote.

How many seats were there in Scotland in 1955?

71 constituencies.

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