United Kingdom general election, 2001 (Scotland)

United Kingdom general election, 2001

7 June 2001 (2001-06-07)

All 72 Scottish seats to the House of Commons

	First party	Second party

Leader	Tony Blair	Charles Kennedy
Party	Labour	Liberal Democrat
Leader since	21 July 1994	9 August 1999
Last election	56 Seats	10 Seats
Seats before	56	10
Seats won	56	10
Seat change	0	0
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
Last election	6 Seats	0 Seats
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%

Prime Minister before election

Tony Blair
Labour

Subsequent Prime Minister

Tony Blair
Labour

These are the results of the United Kingdom general election, 2001 for the country of Scotland. The election was held on 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 gave the Conservative Party one Scottish seat in the House of Commons.

Results

Below is a table summarising the results of the UK 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 Democrat	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

↑ "Election 2001 | Results | Scotland". BBC News. 14 August 2001. Retrieved 2011-11-03.

Elections and referendums in Scotland

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Referendums	1979 1997 2014

Local referendums	Scottish licensing referendums Strathclyde (water) 1994 Edinburgh (congestion charge) 2005

See also: Elections in the Kingdom of Scotland (Pre-1707) Great Britain (1707–1800) United Kingdom Politics of Scotland

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