# List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1955–1959)

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

| Affiliation | Affiliation | Members |
| | Scottish Labour Party | 34 |
| | Unionist Party | 30 |
| | National Liberal | 6 |
| | Scottish Liberal Party | 1 |
| Total | Total | 71 |

## List

| MP | Constituency | Party | In constituency since |
| Hector Hughes | Aberdeen North | Labour Party | 1945 |
| Priscilla Buchan | Aberdeen South | Unionist Party | 1946 by-election |
| Robert Boothby | Aberdeenshire East | Unionist Party | 1950 |
| Henry Spence | Aberdeenshire West | Unionist Party | 1950 |
| Colin Thornton-Kemsley | Angus North and Mearns | National Liberal | 1950 |
| James Duncan | Angus South | National Liberal | 1950 |
| Duncan McCallum | Argyll | Unionist Party | 1950 |
| Thomas Moore | Ayr | Unionist Party | 1950 |
| Douglas Spencer-Nairn | Ayrshire Central | Unionist Party | 1955 |
| Charles MacAndrew | Ayrshire North and Bute | Unionist Party | 1935 |
| Emrys Hughes | Ayrshire South | Labour Party | 1946 by-election |
| William Duthie | Banffshire | Unionist Party | 1945 |
| Antony Lambton, Viscount Lambton | Berwick and East Lothian | Unionist Party | 1951 |
| John Timmons | Bothwell | Labour Party | 1945 |
| David Robertson | Caithness and Sutherland | Unionist Party | 1950 |
| Jean Mann | Coatbridge and Airdrie | Labour Party | 1950 |
| Niall Macpherson | Dumfriesshire | National Liberal | 1945 |
| Cyril Bence | Dunbartonshire East | Labour Party | 1951 |
| Tom Steele | Dunbartonshire West | Labour Party | 1950 by-election |
| George Thomson | Dundee East | Labour Party | 1952 by-election |
| John Strachey | Dundee West | Labour Party | 1950 |
| James Clunie | Dunfermline Burghs | Labour Party | 1950 |
| Tom Oswald | Edinburgh Central | Labour Party | 1951 |
| George Willis (politician) | Edinburgh East | Labour Party | 1954 by-election |
| James Hoy | Edinburgh Leith | Labour Party | 1950 |
| William Milligan | Edinburgh North | Unionist Party | 1955 |
| John Hope | Edinburgh Pentlands | Unionist Party | 1950 |
| William Darling | Edinburgh South | Unionist Party | 1945 |
| Ian Clark Hutchison | Edinburgh West | Unionist Party | 1941 by-election |
| James Henderson-Stewart | Fife East | National Liberal | 1933 by-election |
| Willie Hamilton | Fife West | Labour Party | 1950 |
| John Mackie | Galloway | Unionist Party | 1931 |
| James Carmichael | Glasgow Bridgeton | Labour Party | 1946 by-election |
| John Henderson | Glasgow Cathcart | Unionist Party | 1946 by-election |
| James McInnes | Glasgow Central | Labour Party | 1950 |
| Jack Browne | Glasgow Craigton | Unionist Party | 1955 |
| Alice Cullen | Glasgow Gorbals | Labour Party | 1948 by-election |
| John Rankin | Glasgow Govan | Labour Party | 1955 |
| Tam Galbraith | Glasgow Hillhead | Unionist Party | 1948 by-election |
| Walter Elliot | Glasgow Kelvingrove | Unionist Party | 1950 |
| William Hannan | Glasgow Maryhill | Labour Party | 1945 |
| John George | Glasgow Pollok | Unionist Party | 1955 |
| William Reid | Glasgow Provan | Labour Party | 1955 |
| James Hutchison | Glasgow Scotstoun | Unionist Party | 1950 |
| John McGovern | Glasgow Shettleston | Labour Party | 1930 by-election |
| John Forman | Glasgow Springburn | Labour Party | 1945 |
| William Grant | Glasgow Woodside | Unionist Party | 1955 |
| Hector McNeil | Greenock | Labour Party | 1941 by-election |
| Tom Fraser | Hamilton | Labour Party | 1943 by-election |
| Billy McLean | Inverness | Unionist Party | 1954 by-election |
| William Ross | Kilmarnock | Labour Party | 1946 by-election |
| Gilmour Leburn | Kinross and Western Perthshire | Unionist Party | 1955 |
| Thomas Hubbard | Kirkcaldy Burghs | Labour Party | 1944 by-election |
| Patrick Maitland | Lanark | Unionist Party | 1951 |
| Peggy Herbison | Lanarkshire North | Labour Party | 1945 |
| David Pryde | Midlothian | Labour Party | 1955 |
| James Stuart | Moray and Nairn | Unionist Party | 1923 |
| George Lawson | Motherwell | Labour Party | 1954 by-election |
| Jo Grimond | Orkney and Shetland | Liberal Party | 1950 |
| Douglas Johnston | Paisley | Labour Party | 1948 by-election |
| Alan Gomme-Duncan | Perth and East Perthshire | Unionist Party | 1950 |
| Guy Lloyd | Renfrewshire East | Unionist Party | 1940 by-election |
| John Maclay | Renfrewshire West | National Liberal | 1950 |
| John MacLeod | Ross and Cromarty | National Liberal | 1945 |
| Charles Donaldson | Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles | Unionist Party | 1951 |
| Richard Brooman-White | Rutherglen | Unionist Party | 1951 |
| Malcolm MacPherson | Stirling and Falkirk | Labour Party | 1948 by-election |
| Arthur Woodburn | Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan | Labour Party | 1939 by-election |
| Alfred Balfour | Stirlingshire West | Labour Party | 1945 |
| John Taylor | West Lothian | Labour Party | 1951 |
| Malcolm Macmillan | Western Isles | Labour Party | 1935 |

## By-elections

There were six by-elections during this period:
| By-election | Date | Incumbent | Party | Winner | Party | Cause |
| Greenock | 8 December 1955 | Hector McNeil | Labour | Dickson Mabon | Labour | Death |
| Edinburgh South | 29 May 1957 | William Darling | Unionist | Michael Hutchison | Unionist | Resignation |
| Glasgow Kelvingrove | 13 March 1958 | Walter Elliot | Unionist | Mary McAlister | Labour | Death |
| Argyll | 12 June 1958 | Duncan McCallum | Unionist | Michael Noble | Unionist | Death |
| East Aberdeenshire | 20 November 1958 | Robert Boothby | Unionist | Patrick Wolrige-Gordon | Unionist | Elevation to a life peerage |
| Galloway | 9 April 1959 | John Mackie | Unionist | John Brewis | Unionist | Death |