Scottish Westminster Constituencies - 1955 To 1974

1955 To 1974

The results of the First Periodical Review became effective for the 1955 general election.

The review defined 32 burgh constituencies and 39 county constituencies, with each electing one MP. Therefore Scotland had 71 parliamentary seats.

Each constituency was entirely within a county or a grouping of two or three counties, or was if the cities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow are regarded as belonging, respectively to the county of Aberdeen, the county of Angus, the county of Midlothian and the county of Lanark.

1955 boundaries were used also for the general election of 1959.

There were changes to the boundaries of nine Scottish constituencies for the 1964 general election but there was no change to county groupings, to the total numbers of constituencies and MPs, or to constituency names.

1964 boundaries were used also for the 1966 and 1970 general elections.

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