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SCOTTISH CONSERVATIVES - The Scottish Conservatives (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Tòraidheach na h-Alba), officially the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, is the part...
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The Scottish Conservatives (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Tòraidheach na h-Alba), officially the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, is the part of the * Conservative Party in the United Kingdom that operates in Scotland. Describing itself as a “patriotic party of the Scottish centre-right”, it is the second-largest party in the Scottish Parliament and Scottish local government. It also sends the second-largest Scottish representation to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, after the SNP in each respect. * The party is informally known as the Scottish Tories, due to the Conservative Party's historic links with the Tory Party. The leader of the Scottish Conservatives is Ruth Davidson MSP, who has held the post since 2011. * The modern Scottish Conservative Party was established in 1965 with the merger of the Unionist Party into the Conservative Party in England and Wales. The Unionist Party, as with the Conservative and Unionist Party in England and Wales, was formed in 1912 by the merger of the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists, and existed as the dominant force in Scottish politics from the 1930s to the late 1950s. While organising itself as a separate party in Scotland, Unionists took the Conservative whip in the UK Parliament, with Bonar Law and Alec Douglas-Home, then Unionist Members of Parliament becoming leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister. * Unionists won the most seats in Scotland in the 1955 general election * and gained a majority of the Scottish vote - the second time this was achieved by a political party since the introduction of universal suffrage. They had also achieved a majority of the vote 24 years earlier in the 1931 general election with 54.4%. In the 1959 election, Unionist candidates won the most votes as a sum total in Scotland though not a majority of seats due to First Past the Post electoral system; since then the Labour Party went on to dominate Scottish politics for the remainder of the 20th century. * The 1997 general election saw the party fail to return any MPs in Scottish constituencies and returned only one MP in the 2001, 2005, 2010, and 2015 elections. In the 2017 UK general election, the party increased its number of MPs to 13 on 28.6 per cent of the popular vote - its best performance since 1983 and in terms of votes since 1979. In the devolved Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Conservatives ranked in third place until the 2016 election. It is currently the largest opposition party, with 31 of 129 seats. It also holds one of six seats for the Scotland constituency of the European Parliament. |