List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1970–February 1974) facts for kids
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This is a list of the 71 members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Scottish constituencies for the Forty-fifth parliament of the United Kingdom (1970 to Feb. 1974) at the 1970 United Kingdom general election.
Contents
Composition
| Affiliation | Members | |
| Labour Party | 44 | |
| Conservative Party | 23 | |
| Liberal | 3 | |
| Scottish National Party | 1 | |
| Total | 71 | |
List
| Constituency | MP | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen North | Robert Hughes | Labour | |
| Aberdeen South | Iain Sproat | Conservative | |
| East Aberdeenshire | Patrick Wolrige-Gordon | Conservative | |
| West Aberdeenshire | Colin Mitchell | Conservative | |
| Dundee East | George Thomson | Labour | 1973 by-election |
| Dundee West | Peter Doig | Labour | |
| North Angus and Mearns | Alick Buchanan-Smith | Conservative | |
| South Angus | Jock Bruce-Gardyne | Conservative | |
| Argyll | Michael Noble | Conservative | |
| Ayr | George Younger | Conservative | |
| Bute and North Ayrshire | Fitzroy Maclean | Conservative | |
| Central Ayrshire | David Lambie | Labour | |
| Kilmarnock | Willie Ross | Labour | |
| South Ayrshire | Jim Sillars | Labour | |
| Banffshire | Wilfred Baker | Conservative | |
| Berwick and East Lothian | John Mackintosh | Labour | |
| Caithness and Sutherland | Robert Maclennan | Labour | |
| Dumfriesshire | Hector Monro | Conservative | |
| East Dunbartonshire | Hugh McCartney | Labour | |
| West Dunbartonshire | Ian Campbell | Labour | |
| Dunfermline Burghs | Adam Hunter | Labour | |
| Kirkcaldy Burghs | Harry Gourlay | Labour | |
| East Fife | John Gilmour | Conservative | |
| West Fife | Willie Hamilton | Labour | |
| Inverness | Russell Johnston | Liberal | |
| Ross and Cromarty | Hamish Gray | Conservative | |
| Western Isles | Donald Stewart | SNP | |
| Galloway | John Brewis | Conservative | |
| Coatbridge and Airdrie | James Dempsey | Labour | |
| Glasgow Bridgeton | James Bennett | Labour | |
| Glasgow Cathcart | Teddy Taylor | Conservative | |
| Glasgow Central | Thomas McMillan | Labour | |
| Glasgow Craigton | Bruce Millan | Labour | |
| Glasgow Gorbals | Frank McElhone | Labour | |
| Glasgow Govan | John Rankin | Labour | 1973 by-election |
| Glasgow Hillhead | Tam Galbraith | Conservative | |
| Glasgow Kelvingrove | Maurice Miller | Labour | |
| Glasgow Maryhill | William Hannan | Labour | |
| Glasgow Pollok | James White | Labour | |
| Glasgow Provan | Hugh Brown | Labour | |
| Glasgow Scotstoun | William Small | Labour | |
| Glasgow Shettleston | Myer Galpern | Labour | |
| Glasgow Springburn | Richard Buchanan | Labour | |
| Glasgow Woodside | Neil Carmichael | Labour | |
| Bothwell | James Hamilton | Labour | |
| Hamilton | Alexander Wilson | Labour | |
| Lanark | Judith Hart | Labour | |
| Motherwell | George Lawson | Labour | |
| North Lanarkshire | John Smith | Labour | |
| Rutherglen | Gregor Mackenzie | Labour | |
| Edinburgh Central | Tom Oswald | Labour | |
| Edinburgh East | Gavin Strang | Labour | |
| Edinburgh Leith | Ronald King Murray | Labour | |
| Edinburgh North | John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch | Conservative | 1973 by-election |
| Edinburgh Pentlands | Norman Wylie | Conservative | |
| Edinburgh South | Michael Hutchison | Conservative | |
| Edinburgh West | Anthony Stodart | Conservative | |
| Midlothian | Alex Eadie | Labour | |
| Moray and Nairn | Gordon Campbell | Conservative | |
| Orkney and Zetland | Jo Grimond | Liberal | |
| Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles | David Steel | Liberal | |
| Kinross and West Perthshire | Alec Douglas-Home | Conservative | |
| Perth and East Perthshire | Ian MacArthur | Conservative | |
| Greenock | Dickson Mabon | Labour | |
| Paisley | John Robertson | Labour | |
| East Renfrewshire | Betty Harvie Anderson | Conservative | |
| West Renfrewshire | Norman Buchan | Labour | |
| Stirling and Falkirk Burghs | Malcolm MacPherson | Labour | 1971 by-election |
| Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire | Dick Douglas | Labour | |
| West Stirlingshire | William Baxter | Labour | |
| West Lothian | Tam Dalyell | Labour |
By-elections
- 1971 Stirling and Falkirk by-election, Harry Ewing, Labour
- 1973 Dundee East by-election, George Machin, Labour
- 1973 Edinburgh North by-election, Alexander Fletcher, Conservative
- 1973 Glasgow Govan by-election, Margo MacDonald, SNP
See also
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