This is a list of the 71 members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Scottish constituencies for the Forty-first parliament of the United Kingdom (1955–1959) at the 1955 United Kingdom general election.
As of 2024, this was the last election in which the Conservative and Unionist Party won the largest number of votes in Scotland and the most seats in the country.
Composition AffiliationMembersScottish Labour Party34Unionist Party30National Liberal6Scottish Liberal Party1 Total71
List MPConstituencyPartyIn constituency sinceHector HughesAberdeen NorthLabour Party1945Priscilla BuchanAberdeen SouthUnionist Party1946 by-electionRobert BoothbyAberdeenshire EastUnionist Party1950Henry SpenceAberdeenshire WestUnionist Party1950Colin Thornton-KemsleyAngus North and MearnsNational Liberal1950James DuncanAngus SouthNational Liberal1950Duncan McCallumArgyllUnionist Party1950Thomas MooreAyrUnionist Party1950Douglas Spencer-NairnAyrshire CentralUnionist Party1955Charles MacAndrewAyrshire North and ButeUnionist Party1935Emrys HughesAyrshire SouthLabour Party1946 by-electionWilliam DuthieBanffshireUnionist Party1945Antony Lambton, Viscount LambtonBerwick and East LothianUnionist Party1951John TimmonsBothwellLabour Party1945David RobertsonCaithness and SutherlandUnionist Party1950Jean MannCoatbridge and AirdrieLabour Party1950Niall MacphersonDumfriesshireNational Liberal1945Cyril BenceDunbartonshire EastLabour Party1951Tom SteeleDunbartonshire WestLabour Party1950 by-electionGeorge ThomsonDundee EastLabour Party1952 by-electionJohn StracheyDundee WestLabour Party1950James ClunieDunfermline BurghsLabour Party1950Tom OswaldEdinburgh CentralLabour Party1951George Willis (politician)Edinburgh EastLabour Party1954 by-electionJames HoyEdinburgh LeithLabour Party1950William MilliganEdinburgh NorthUnionist Party1955John HopeEdinburgh PentlandsUnionist Party1950William DarlingEdinburgh SouthUnionist Party1945Ian Clark HutchisonEdinburgh WestUnionist Party1941 by-electionJames Henderson-StewartFife EastNational Liberal1933 by-electionWillie HamiltonFife WestLabour Party1950John MackieGallowayUnionist Party1931James CarmichaelGlasgow BridgetonLabour Party1946 by-electionJohn HendersonGlasgow CathcartUnionist Party1946 by-electionJames McInnesGlasgow CentralLabour Party1950Jack BrowneGlasgow CraigtonUnionist Party1955Alice CullenGlasgow GorbalsLabour Party1948 by-electionJohn RankinGlasgow GovanLabour Party1955Tam GalbraithGlasgow HillheadUnionist Party1948 by-electionWalter ElliotGlasgow KelvingroveUnionist Party1950William HannanGlasgow MaryhillLabour Party1945John GeorgeGlasgow PollokUnionist Party1955William ReidGlasgow ProvanLabour Party1955James HutchisonGlasgow ScotstounUnionist Party1950John McGovernGlasgow ShettlestonLabour Party1930 by-electionJohn FormanGlasgow SpringburnLabour Party1945William GrantGlasgow WoodsideUnionist Party1955Hector McNeilGreenockLabour Party1941 by-electionTom FraserHamiltonLabour Party1943 by-electionBilly McLeanInvernessUnionist Party1954 by-electionWilliam RossKilmarnockLabour Party1946 by-electionGilmour LeburnKinross and Western PerthshireUnionist Party1955Thomas HubbardKirkcaldy BurghsLabour Party1944 by-electionPatrick MaitlandLanarkUnionist Party1951Peggy HerbisonLanarkshire NorthLabour Party1945David PrydeMidlothianLabour Party1955James StuartMoray and NairnUnionist Party1923George LawsonMotherwellLabour Party1954 by-electionJo GrimondOrkney and ShetlandLiberal Party1950Douglas JohnstonPaisleyLabour Party1948 by-electionAlan Gomme-DuncanPerth and East PerthshireUnionist Party1950Guy LloydRenfrewshire EastUnionist Party1940 by-electionJohn MaclayRenfrewshire WestNational Liberal1950John MacLeodRoss and CromartyNational Liberal1945Charles DonaldsonRoxburgh, Selkirk and PeeblesUnionist Party1951Richard Brooman-WhiteRutherglenUnionist Party1951Malcolm MacPhersonStirling and FalkirkLabour Party1948 by-electionArthur WoodburnStirlingshire East and ClackmannanLabour Party1939 by-electionAlfred BalfourStirlingshire WestLabour Party1945John TaylorWest LothianLabour Party1951Malcolm MacmillanWestern IslesLabour Party1935
By-elections There were six by-elections during this period: By-election Date Incumbent Party Winner Party CauseGreenock8 December 1955Hector McNeilDickson MabonDeathEdinburgh South29 May 1957William DarlingMichael HutchisonResignationGlasgow Kelvingrove13 March 1958Walter ElliotMary McAlisterDeathArgyll12 June 1958Duncan McCallumMichael NobleDeathEast Aberdeenshire20 November 1958Robert BoothbyPatrick Wolrige-GordonElevation to a life peerageGalloway9 April 1959John MackieJohn BrewisDeath
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See also 1955 United Kingdom general election