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United Kingdom general election 1974 Oct in Scotland.svg
Colours on map indicate the party allegiance of each constituency's MP.

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-seventh parliament of the United Kingdom (Oct. 1974 to 1979) at the October 1974 United Kingdom general election.

Composition

Affiliation Members
Labour Party 41
Conservative Party 16
Liberal 3
Scottish National Party 11
 Total 71

List

Constituency MP Party Notes
Aberdeen North Robert Hughes Labour
Aberdeen South Ian Sproat Conservative
Argyll Iain MacCormick SNP
Ayr George Younger Conservative
Banffshire Hamish Watt SNP
Berwick and East Lothian John Mackintosh Labour 1978 By-election
Bothwell James Hamilton Labour
Bute and North Ayrshire John Corrie Conservative
Caithness and Sutherland Robert Maclennon Labour
Central Ayrshire David Lambie Labour
Central Dunbartonshire Hugh McCartney Labour
Central Fife Willie Hamilton Labour
Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire George Reid SNP
Coatbridge and Airdrie James Dempsey Labour
Dumfriesshire Sir Hector Munro Conservative
Dundee East Gordon Wilson SNP
Dundee West Peter Doig Labour
Dunfermline Adam Hunter Labour
East Aberdeenshire Douglas Henderson SNP
East Dunbartonshire Margaret Bain SNP
East Fife John Gilmour Conservative
East Kilbride Maurice Miller Labour
East Renfrewshire Betty Harvie Anderson Conservative
Edinburgh Central Robin Cook Labour
Edinburgh East Gavin Strang Labour
Edinburgh Leith Ronald King Murray Labour
Edinburgh North Alex Fletcher Conservative
Edinburgh Pentlands Malcolm Rifkind Conservative
Edinburgh South Michael Clark Huchison Conservative
Edinburgh West James Douglas-Hamilton Conservative
Galloway George Thompson SNP
Glasgow Cathcart Teddy Taylor Conservative
Glasgow Central Thomas McMillan Labour
Glasgow Craigton Bruce Millan Labour
Glasgow Garscadden Willie Small Labour 1978 By-election
Glasgow Govan Harry Selby Labour
Glasgow Hillhead Tam Galbraith Conservative
Glasgow Kelvingrove Neil Carmichael Labour
Glasgow Maryhill Jim Craigen Labour Co-operative
Glasgow Pollok James White Labour
Glasgow Provan Hugh Brown Labour
Glasgow Queen's Park Frank McElhone Labour
Glasgow Shettleston Myer Galpern Labour
Glasgow Springburn Dick Buchanan Labour
Greenock and Port Glasgow Dickson Mabon Labour Co-operative
Hamilton Alex Wilson Labour 1978 By-election
Inverness Russell Johnston Liberal
Kilmarnock William Ross Labour
Kinross and West Perthshire Nicholas Fairbarn Conservative
Kirkcaldy Harry Gourley Labour
Lanark Judith Hart Labour
Midlothian Alex Eadie Labour
Moray and Nairn Winnie Ewing SNP
Motherwell and Wishaw Jeremy Bray Labour
North Angus and Mearns Alick Buchanan-Smith Conservative
North Lanarkshire John Smith Labour
Orkney and Zetland Jo Grimond Liberal
Paisley John Robertson Labour
Perth and East Perthshire Douglas Crawford SNP
Ross and Cromarty Hamish Grey Conservative
Roxburgh Selkirk and Peebles David Steel Liberal
Rutherglen Gregor Mackenzie Labour
South Angus Andrew Welsh SNP
South Ayrshire Jim Sillars Labour
Stirling Falkirk and Grangemouth Harry Ewing Labour
West Aberdeenshire Russell Fairgrieve Conservative
West Dunbartonshire Ian Campbell Labour
West Lothian Tom Dalyell Labour
West Renfrewshire Norman Buchan Labour
West Stirlingshire Dennis Canavan Labour
Na h-Eileanan an lar Donald Stewart SNP

By-elections

  • 1978 Glasgow Garscadden By-election, Donald Dewar, Labour
  • 1978 Hamilton By-election, George Robertson, Labour
  • 1978 Berwick and East Lothian By-election, John Home Robertson, Labour

See also

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