1959 United Kingdom general election in Scotland

1959 United Kingdom general election

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All 71 Scottish seats to the House of Commons
First party Second party Third party   Leader Hugh Gaitskell Harold Macmillan Jo Grimond Party Labour Unionist Liberal Last election 34, 46.7% 36 seats, 50.1% 1 seats, 1.9% Seats won 38 31[a] 1 Seat change 4 5 Popular vote 1,245,255 1,260,287 108,963 Percentage 46.7 47.3 4.1% Swing 2.8% 2.1%   Fourth party   Leader David Robertson Party Ind. Unionist Last election N/A Seats won 1 Seat change 1 Popular vote 12,163 Percentage 0.5% Swing N/A
Results of the 1959 election in Scotland   Conservative/Unionist   Labour   Liberal   National Liberal   Independent Unionist

A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday, 8 October 1959 and all 71 seats in Scotland were contested.^[1] The Unionists, who aligned with the Conservative and Unionist Party at a UK level, together with their allies the National Liberals, won the largest number of votes, but lost out in seats to the Labour Party. Across the UK as a whole, the Conservatives won 365 seats, and returned as government with a majority of 100 seats.

Jo Grimond, now party leader for the Liberals, was returned as his party's only MP, representing Orkney and Shetland. The election also saw David Robertson returned as in "Independent Unionist" for Caithness and Sutherland. Robertson was the sitting MP for the seat, having resigned from taking the Conservative whip at Westminster in January of 1959.^[2] Robertson was not opposed by an official Unionist candidate.^[3]

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