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:''"Scottish Tories" redirects here; for the pre-1965 Tory political parties, see Unionist Party (Scotland) and Tory (British political party).'' |seats2_title = Scottish Parliament |seats2 = |seats3_title = European Parliament |seats3 = |seats4_title = Local government in Scotland |seats4 = |colours = Blue |website = }} The Scottish Conservatives ((スコットランド・ゲール語:Pàrtaidh Tòraidheachd na h-Alba); ; officially the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and informally the Scottish Tories, is a centre-right political party in Scotland.〔http://www.scottishconservatives.com/what-we-stand-for/〕 It is part of the United Kingdom Conservative Party and is the third largest in the devolved Scottish Parliament and in Scottish local government. The leader of the Scottish Conservatives is Ruth Davidson MSP, who has held the post since 2011. The modern Scottish Conservative Party was established in 1965 with the merger of Unionist Party into the Conservative Party of England and Wales. The Unionist Party, as with the Conservative and Unionist Party in England and Wales, was formed in 1912 by the merger of the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists, and existed as the dominant force in Scottish politics from the 1930s to the late 1950s.〔("... a waning of the cultural conditions which produced the centre-right coalition that dominated Scottish politics, 1931–64, and its fragmentation into Conservatism, Liberalism, and Scottish Nationalism." ), Abstract of ''"The Evolution of the Centre-right and the State of Scottish Conservatism"'', Michael Dyer, University of Aberdeen, ''Political Studies'', Volume 49, March 2001〕 While organising itself as a separate party in Scotland, Unionists took the Conservative whip in the UK Parliament, with Andrew Bonar Law, then a Unionist and Member of Parliament for Glasgow Central becoming leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister. Unionists won the most seats in Scotland in the 1955 general election and gained a majority of the Scottish vote - the first time this was achieved by a political party since the introduction of universal suffrage. In the 1959 election, Unionists won the most votes in Scotland, but fewer seats than the Labour Party who went on to dominate Scottish politics for the latter half of the 20th century. The landslide victory of the UK Labour Party in the 1997 general election saw the Conservatives fail to return any MPs in Scottish constituencies, declining from 12 in 1992. The party has returned a single MP from Scotland in the 2001, 2005, 2010 and 2015 general elections. Since the creation of the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Conservatives have consistently taken third place in its elections and currently control 15 of the 129 seats, with 12 of these seats won through the additional member system. The party has one of the six Scottish seats in the European Parliament. In 2012, the Scottish Conservatives had 11,000 members.〔 == History == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scottish Conservative Party」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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