United Kingdom general election, 1992 (Scotland)

United Kingdom general election, 1992

9 April 1992

All 72 Scottish seats to the House of Commons

	First party	Second party

Leader	Neil Kinnock	John Major
Party	Labour	Conservative
Leader since	2 October 1983	28 November 1990
Last election	50 Seats	10 Seats
Seats before		10
Seats won	49	11
Seat change	1	1
Popular vote	1,142,911	751,950
Percentage	39.0%	25.6%
Swing	3.4%	1.6%

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Paddy Ashdown	Alex Salmond
Party	Liberal Democrat	SNP
Leader since	16 July 1988	22 September 1990
Last election	9	3 Seats
Seats before	9	3
Seats won	9	3
Seat change
Popular vote	383,856	629,564
Percentage	13.1%	21.5%
Swing	6.1%	7.4%

Prime Minister before election

John Major
Conservative

Subsequent Prime Minister

John Major
Conservative

Results

Party		Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	49	1	1,142,911	39.0	3.4
	Conservative	11	1	751,950	25.6	1.6
	Liberal Democrat	9		383,856	13.1	6.1
	SNP	3		629,564	21.5	7.4
		Other	0		23,417	0.8	0.5
Turnout:				2,931,698	75.5	0.4

Elections and referendums in Scotland

Scottish elections	Pre-1707 1999 2003 2007 2011 2016 Next

UK elections	1801 co-option 1802 1806 1807 1812 1818 1820 1826 1830 1831 1832 1835 1837 1841 1847 1852 1857 1859 1865 1868 1874 1880 1885 1886 1892 1895 1900 1906 1910 (Jan) 1910 (Dec) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (Feb) 1974 (Oct) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015

Local elections	1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1977 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1995 1999 2003 2007 2012 2017

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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