Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tae te tautoko mo te SNP ki te 30% i te pooti nui o Oketopa 1974, me te 11 o nga mema o te SNP i pootihia. I te tau 1978 i whakaaetia e te kāwanatanga mahi te Ture o Scotland e whakatakoto ture ana mo te whakatūnga o tētahi Runanga o Scotland, i te mea ka pōti ngā Kaituku mō taua mea i roto i tētahi kōwhiringa pōti.
whakataunga. Heoi anō, he nui te wehewehe o te Rōpū Mahi i runga i te kaupapa o te whakawhitinga. He whakatikatika ki te Ture o Scotland i whakaarohia e te mema o te Labour MP a George Cunningham, i muri tata mai i te wehenga atu ki te Rōpū Manapori Manapori (SDP) i hangaia hou, e hiahiatia ana kia 40% o te katoa o nga kaitono ki te pooti mo te runanga. Ahakoa i manakohia e ia, he maha nga mema o nga kaimahi i whakahe ki te hanganga o te runanga. I whai wāhi tēnei wehenga ki te nuinga 'Ae' iti noa iho i whiwhi, me te kore e tae ki te paepae 40% o Cunningham. Ko ngā tau 18 o te kāwanatanga Conservative, i raro i a Margaret Thatcher, kātahi ko John Major, i kaha te ātete ki tētahi tono mō te whakawhitinga mō Scotland, me Wales.