The numbers behind the nationalists historic Scottish success
THE SNP’s General Election result has stunned the world. We look at the astonishing victory in numbers.
50.0
The percentage share of the vote the SNP won in the election – half of all Scottish voters. Up from 19.9 per cent in the 2010 General Election.
1,454,436
The record-breaking number of people who voted SNP in the General Election, beating the Tories Scottish number in 1951 of 1,349,298
56
The number of seats won in Scotland by the SNP, out of a total of 59, some 94.9 per cent of all Scottish seats. That’s an increase of 50 seats on its 2010 result of 6.
39.3
The biggest percentage swing from Labour to SNP in Glasgow North-East. The party won other seats from Labour with swings up to 35 per cent.
100
The percentage of seats the SNP won in Glasgow, as the SNP took all seven seats from Labour. Glasgow is considered a spiritual home of the Labour party.
1
The number of seats other parties won in Scotland, with the Tories, Lib Dems and Labour winning one seat each in Dumfriesshire, Orkneys & Shetlands and Edinburgh South respectively.
1974
The last time the SNP won more than ten seats in a General Election, with its previous best result of eleven seats in the 1974 General Election.
20
The age of new SNP MP Mhairi Black, who beat Labour’s Douglas Alexander in Paisley & Renfrewshire North, to become the youngest MP in the House of Commons for over 200 years.
Picture courtesy of Surian Soosay