Scottish Conservatives
Year Share of votes Councillors
1995 11.5% 82 / 1,155
1999 13.5% 108 / 1,222
2003 15.1% 122 / 1,222
2007 15.6% ( first preference ) 143 / 1,222
2012 13.3% ( first preference ) 115 / 1,222
2017 25.3% ( first preference ) 276 / 1,227
Electoral performance -- Local Council Elections
2017 local election results in Scotland where blue represents Conservative .
The Conservative Party in Scotland (), officially the Conservative and Unionist Party in Scotland, is the part of the 
Conservative Party in the United Kingdom that operates in Scotland. It is Scotland's centre-right political party and the second-largest party in the Scottish Parliament and Scottish local government. The party has the second largest number of Scottish MPs in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Acting Leader of the Conservative Party in Scotland is Jackson Carlaw. He replaced Ruth Davidson MSP, who held the post from 2011 to 2019. In the 2017 UK general election, the party increased its number of MPs to 13 on 28.6 per cent of the popular vote - its best performance since 1983 and in terms of votes since 1979. In the 2016 election for the Scottish Parliament the Scottish Conservatives gained 16 seats making it the largest opposition party, with 31 of 129 seats. It also holds one of six seats for the Scotland constituency of the European Parliament.