UK Politics (2) - SNP

Question 1

The SNP was formed in which year

Answer 1

1934

Question 2

It made an electoral breakthrough by winning a by election in which year?

Answer 2

1967

Question 3

Which campaign increased party support in the 1970s?

Answer 3

It’s Scotland’s Oil

Question 4

The number of MPs returned in the October 1974 election…

Answer 4

11

Question 5

In the 1999 election to the Scottish Parliament the SNP won how many seats?

Answer 5

35

Question 6

The year the SNP became the largest party in the Scottish Parliament was?

Answer 6

2007

Question 7

Prior to 2007 Scottish governments had been dominated by which two parties?

Answer 7

Labour and Lib Dems

Question 8

In 2011 they won how many seats in the Scottish parliament?

Answer 8

69

Question 9

The year of the unsuccessful Scottish independence referendum?

Answer 9

2014

Question 10

The leader who resigned following the referendum was?

Answer 10

Alex Salmond

Question 11

The leader who succeeded Alex Salmond was

Answer 11

Nicola Sturgeon

Question 12

Number of seats in the 2015 general election

Answer 12

56

Question 13

Number of seats in the 2019 general election?

Answer 13

48

Question 14

Nicola Sturgeon resigned in 2023 amid what kind of investigation?

Answer 14

Fraud concerning the SNP’s finances

Question 15

Leader since 2023

Answer 15

Hamza Yousaf?

Question 16

SNP ideology and policies…

Answer 16

Independence
Broadly left wing
Socially very liberal
Opposed to Scotland housing nuclear weapons