Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party
Scottish Labour Party Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h-Alba Scots Labour Pairty | |
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| Leader | Richard Leonard MSP |
| Deputy Leader | Lesley Laird MP |
| General Secretary | Brian Roy |
| Founded | 1900 |
| Headquarters |
290 Bath Street Glasgow G2 4RE |
| Student wing | Scottish Labour Students |
| Youth wing | Scottish Young Labour |
| Membership (2017) | 21,500 |
| Ideology |
Social democracy Democratic socialism British unionism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Labour Party (UK) |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
| International affiliation |
Progressive Alliance, Socialist International (Observer) |
| European Parliament group | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
| Colours | Red |
| Scottish seats in the House of Commons |
7 / 59
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| Scottish seats in the European Parliament |
2 / 6
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| Scottish Parliament |
22 / 129
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| Local government in Scotland |
252 / 1,227
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| Website | |
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The Scottish Labour Party (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h-Alba, Scots: Scots Labour Pairty; branded Scottish Labour) is the devolved Scottish section of the UK Labour Party.
Labour currently hold 22 of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and two of six Scottish seats in the European Parliament. Labour won the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election from 1964 until 2015, where they made big losses to the Scottish National Party; every European Parliament general election from 1979 until being defeated by the SNP in 2009; and in the first two elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and 2003. After these, Scottish Labour entered a coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, forming a majority Scottish Executive.
In a landslide defeat at the 2015 UK general election, Scottish Labour was reduced to having a single seat (Edinburgh South], losing 40 of its 41 seats to the SNP. This was the first time the party had not won the largest number of seats in Scotland since 1959. In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Scottish Labour lost 13 of it's 37 seats, becoming the third-largest party after being surpassed by the Scottish Conservative Party. At the most recent general election in 2017, Labour gained 6 new seats in Scotland from the SNP, bring their total seat tally to 7 and significantly improving on it's disastrous performance two years previously with a 27.1% share of the vote. This was the first time since the 1918 general election 99 years previously, that Labour had finished in third place at any general election in Scotland.
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