Scottish Conservatives replaced Jackson Carlaw, who briefly served from February to July 2020; Carlaw had in turn taken over from Ruth Davidson, who held the post from 2011 to 2019.
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15 Facts About Scottish Conservatives
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Party's commitments to a devolved Scottish Conservatives Assembly were to decline under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher.
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Previously the party had offered some support for a Scottish Conservatives Assembly, including in the so-called Declaration of Perth in 1968 under UK party leader Edward Heath.
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Scottish Conservatives made little advance at the 2015 UK general election compared to 2010, with Scotland's sole Conservative MP David Mundell holding on to his Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale constituency with a reduced majority of just 798 votes ahead of the SNP's Emma Harper.
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In spite of this, the Scottish Conservatives narrowly missed out on having 2 MP's elected in Scotland, missing out in the Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency by only 328 votes behind the SNP's Calum Kerr: this was the most marginal result in Scotland and the eighth most marginal result in the United Kingdom.
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The Scottish Conservatives were the only major party in Scotland to oppose higher taxes to the rest of the United Kingdom during the campaign as tax reductions came in force across the rest of the UK which were opposed by the SNP, Labour and Liberal Democrats.
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The Scottish Conservatives gained 12 MP's in Scotland to give them 13 in total.
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Scottish Conservatives took a majority of seats in the North East of Scotland, gaining former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond's Gordon constituency, alongside Moray, the seat of the SNP's Westminster leader Angus Robertson.
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Scottish Conservatives retained their single seat in the European Parliament at the 2019 European Parliament election.
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Scottish Conservatives lost more than half of their seats in Scotland to the Scottish National Party in the December 2019 general election, with a 3.
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The Scottish Conservatives ultimately obtained 31 seats, the same as their result in the 2016 election, and remained in opposition at Holyrood.
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Scottish Conservatives lost 63 seats at the 2022 Scottish local elections, shedding 5.
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Scottish Conservatives are a centre-right and conservative political party, with a commitment to Scotland remaining a part of the United Kingdom.
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At the 2019 general election, the Scottish Conservatives pledged opposition to a proposed second Scottish independence referendum, delivering on Brexit and to strengthen the United Kingdom.
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In 2017, the Scottish Conservatives became the second-largest political party in Scotland in terms of democratic representation in the Scottish Parliament, constituencies in Scotland in the UK House of Commons and in local government in Scotland, finishing in second place behind the Scottish National Party and overtaking the once dominant Scottish Labour.
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