2001 United Kingdom general election in Scotland

These are the results of the 2001 United Kingdom general election (Scotland). The election was held on Thursday, 7 June 2001 and all 72 seats in Scotland were contested. There was only one Scottish seat which changed parties during the election; that of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale which Peter Duncan of the Conservative Party gained from Alisdair Morgan of the SNP, by just 74 votes. Apart from the Conservatives increasing their representation to a single seat, the election was essentially a repeat of the previous result four years earlier; with Labour still the largest party in terms of seats won.

Main article: 2001 United Kingdom general election

2001 United Kingdom general election

7 June 2001 (2001-06-07)
All 72 Scottish seats to the House of Commons
Turnout	58.2%, 13.1%
First party Second party   Leader Tony Blair Charles Kennedy Party Labour Liberal Democrats Leader since 21 July 1994 9 August 1999 Seats before 56 10 Seats won 56 10 Seat change Popular vote 1,017,226 380,034 Percentage 43.9% 16.4% Swing 1.7% 3.4%   Third party Fourth party   Leader John Swinney William Hague Party SNP Conservative Leader since 26 September 2000 19 June 1997 Seats before 6 0 Seats won 5 1 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 464,314 360,658 Percentage 20.1% 15.6% Swing 2.0% 1.9%
Results of the 2001 election in Scotland

Results

Below is a table summarising the results of the 2001 general election in Scotland.[1]

Party		Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	56	0	1,017,226	43.9	-1.7
	SNP	5	-1	464,314	20.1	-2.0
	Liberal Democrats	10	0	380,034	16.4	+3.4
	Conservative	1	+1	360,658	15.6	-1.9
	Scottish Socialist	0	0	72,518	3.1
	Scottish Green	0	0	4,551	0.2	+0.1
	UKIP	0	0	3,236	0.1	0.0
	Socialist Labour	0	0	3,184	0.1	0.0
	Scottish Unionist	0	0	2,728	0.1
	Legalise Cannabis	0	0	955	0.0
	ProLife Alliance	0	0	786	0.0	-0.2
	Monster Raving Loony	0	0	405	0.0
	Liberal	0	0	383	0.0	0.0
	Countryside Party	0	0	265	0.0
	Scottish Freedom Referendum Party	0	0	250	0.0
	Rock 'n' Roll Loony	0	0	211	0.0
	Communist	0	0	174	0.0
	Independent	0	0	3,825	0.2
Turnout				2,315,703	58.2	-13.1

Votes summary

Popular vote Labour   43.92% SNP   20.05% Liberal Democrats   16.41% Conservative   15.57% Socialist   3.13% Other   0.92%

Parliament seats Labour   77.78% Liberal Democrats   13.89% SNP   6.94% Conservative   1.39%

References

1. "Election 2001 | Results | Scotland". BBC News. 14 August 2001. Retrieved 3 November 2011.