page_title: Labour Party of Scotland
section_title: House of Commons
hierarchical_section_title: Labour Party of Scotland / Electoral performance / House of Commons
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Fra Ekofisk-feltet
context_page_description: The Labour Party of Scotland was a minor Scottish nationalist political party that was active in the early 1970s. Formed as a left-wing breakaway from Dundee's branch of the Scottish National Party, it is perhaps best known for standing in the Dundee East by-election of 1973, where its interference split the nationalist vote and probably cost the SNP a parliamentary seat as a result. The party contested elections to Dundee City Council two months later but was ultimately unsuccessful. It folded soon after, and by early 1974 most of its membership had returned to the SNP, whose campaigns on North Sea oil were proving popular with Scotland's urban electorate. It never had any official political representation.
  William Wolfe, then leader of the SNP, dismissed the Labour Party of Scotland's founding as opportunism on the part of local politicians. These included George MacLean, the party's most popular member, whose by-election rival Gordon Wilson succeeded Wolfe in 1979.
caption: The Scottish National Party (SNP) focused its campaign on the capabilities of Scotland's North Sea oil (rig pictured).
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