Talk:1992 United Kingdom general election in Scotland

Seats before

While it mentions that the Conservatives had lost the 1991 Kincardine and Deeside by-election and regained at the election Kincardine and Deeside at the 1992 election would it be worth including seat numbers to reflect the other changes since 1987? The SNP had 5 MPs at the end of the Parliament as Dick Douglas had defected from Labour and Labour had lost Govan in a by-election in 1988. Also Ron Brown had been expelled from Labour in 1991 and was sitting (and recontested his Leith seat) as "Independent Labour". This meant going into the election the Conservatives 9 (-1), Labour 47 (-3), the SNP 5 (+2), the Liberal Democrats 10 (+1 on the Alliance figure in 1987) and Independent +1 (Brown). I seem to remember that confusingly the BBC figures on the night had Labour no change LD -1, SNP -1 and Con +2 as against usual practice they were working off the by-election gains (but not the two changes of party by sitting MPs), so clarity here might be helpful. Dunarc (talk) 20:28, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Also related to this the opening of the article - which seems to come from information in a reliable source - states that "Two Scottish seats changed parties during the election; Aberdeen South and Kincardine and Deeside". However this ignores the fact that Labour regained Govan. If by-elections are to be discounted, that is understandable, but then that means only Aberdeen South changed hands as Kincardine was a Conservative win in 1987 (and like Govan for Labour simply regaining a seat lost at a by-election). Dunarc (talk) 20:38, 13 July 2021 (UTC)