Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

1974 Scottish local elections

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1974 Scottish local elections
Remove ads

Elections for the Scottish district councils were held on Tuesday 7 May 1974, for both the new regional and district councils, between the two United Kingdom general elections of February and October in that same year.

Quick facts First party, Second party ...

These were the first elections held to the 53 district councils established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The Labour Party did reasonably well and the Scottish National Party (SNP) did not. The councillors acted as "shadow" councils until May 1975, when the provisions of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 came into effect.[1]

Remove ads

Results

Summarize
Perspective

National results

Thumb
Result of the Regional elections.
More information Parties, Votes ...
Thumb
Result of the District elections.
More information Parties, Votes ...

Note: Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles were governed at the district level as unitary authorities, meaning they were not included in any larger region.

Council Results

Regional Councils

More information Region, Labour ...

[3]

District Councils

[3]

More information Region, Labour ...

The seats on each district council after the election were as follows:[5]

Borders
More information District, Labour ...
Central
More information District, Labour ...
Dumfries and Galloway
More information District, Labour ...
Fife
More information District, Labour ...
Grampian
More information District, Labour ...
Highland
More information District, Labour ...
Lothian
More information District, Labour ...
Strathclyde
More information District, Labour ...
Tayside
More information District, Labour ...
Remove ads

See also

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads