Scottish Labor Party

Scottish Labor Party Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h-Alba Scots Labor Pairty Scottish Labor Party
Party leader	Richard Leonard
Secretary General	Michael Sharpe
vice-chairman	Jackie Baillie
founding	1900
Headquarters	290 Bath Street Glasgow , G2 4RE Scotland
Youth organization	Scottish Young Labor
Alignment	Social Democracy , Democratic Socialism , Scottish Unionism
Colours)	red
British House of Commons	1/650
Scottish Parliament	23/129
Local government in Scotland	262/1227
Number of members	18,824
International connections	Progressive Alliance , Socialist International (observer)
Website	www.scottishlabour.org.uk

The Scottish Labor Party ( Schott.-Gäl . Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h-Alba , Scots Scots Labor Pairty , German about Scottish Labor Party ) is a sub-organization of the British Labor Party in Scotland . The Scottish Labor Party is the third largest party in Scotland and has had 23 seats in the Scottish Parliament since 2016 .

History and present

The Scottish Labor Party (SLP) held most of the Scottish seats in the UK House of Commons from 1969 to 2015, until the party lost all but one seat to the Scottish National Party in the UK General Election in 2015 . From 1979 onwards she won every European parliamentary election until she was defeated by the SNP in the European elections in 2009 . In the first two elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and 2003, the SLP won a majority of the seats and formed the government in a coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats . In the Scottish general election in 2007 , the Scottish Labor Party became the second largest party, with a lower share of the vote and one seat less than the Scottish National Party (SNP), which subsequently formed a minority government. The SLP remained the second largest party after the Scottish parliamentary election in 2011 , after which the SNP formed the first government with an absolute majority of the seats since decentralization in 1999. In a landslide defeat in the UK general election in 2015, the number of Scottish Labor MPs was reduced to one Member of Parliament. 40 of 41 seats were lost to the SNP. This was the first time since 1959 that the party did not win the largest number of seats in Scotland. In the 2016 Scottish general election, the Scottish Labor Party lost 13 of its 37 seats, becoming only the third largest party for the first time. It was overtaken by the Scottish Conservative Party , which is now the second largest party in Scotland.

Chairperson

• Johann Lamont (December 17, 2011 - October 24, 2014)
  • Anas Sarwar (deputy: October 24, 2014 - December 13, 2014)
• Jim Murphy (December 13, 2014 - June 13, 2015)
  • Iain Gray (Deputy: June 13, 2015 - August 15, 2015)
• Kezia Dugdale (August 15, 2015 - August 29, 2017)
  • Alex Rowley (Deputy: August 29, 2017 - November 15, 2017)
  • Jackie Baillie (Deputy: November 15, 2017 - November 18, 2017)
• Richard Leonard (November 18, 2017 - now)

Election results

Percentage results and total seats refer to Scotland. General elections were carried out consistently according to majority voting , elections to the Scottish Parliament and, from 1999, also elections to the European Parliament according to proportional representation .

year	choice	Share of votes	Seats
1935	General election 1935	36.8%	20/71
1945	General election 1945	47.9%	37/71
1950	General election 1950	46.2%	37/71
1951	General election 1951	47.9%	35/71
1955	General election 1955	46.7%	34/71
1959	General election 1959	46.7%	38/71
1964	General election 1964	48.7%	43/71
1966	General election 1966	49.8%	46/71
1970	General election 1970	44.5%	44/71
1974	General election Feb. 1974	36.6%	40/71
1974	General election Oct. 1974	36.3%	41/71
1979	General election 1979	41.6%	44/71
1979	European elections 1979	33.0%	2/8
1983	General election 1983	35.1%	42/72
1984	European elections in 1984	40.7%	5/8
1987	General election 1987	42.4%	50/72
1989	European elections 1989	41.9%	7/8
1992	General election 1992	39.0%	49/72
1994	European elections in 1994	42.5%	6/8
1997	General election 1997	45.6%	56/72
1999	General election in Scotland 1999	38.8%	56/129
1999	European elections 1999	28.7%	3/8
2001	General election 2001	43.3%	56/72
2003	General election in Scotland 2003	34.6%	50/129
2004	2004 European elections	26.4%	2/7
2005	General election 2005	39.5%	41/59
2007	General election in Scotland 2007	32.2%	46/129
2009	European elections 2009	20.8%	2/6
2010	General election 2010	42.0%	41/59
2011	General election in Scotland 2011	31.7%	37/129
2014	European elections 2014	25.9%	2/6
2015	General election 2015	24.3%	1/59
2016	General election in Scotland 2016	22.6%	24/129
2017	General election 2017	27.1%	7/59
2014	European elections 2019	9.3%	0/6
2019	General election 2019	18.6%	1/59

Web links

• Scottish Labor Party website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Current State of the Parties. Retrieved May 17, 2016 .