Kammala wannan jumla: Tallafi ga SNP ya kai kashi 30% a babban zaben Oktoba 1974, tare da zabar 'yan majalisar SNP 11. A cikin 1978 gwamnatin Labour ta zartar da Dokar Scotland wacce ta tsara doka don kafa Majalisar Scottish, idan 'yan Scots sun zabi irin wannan a cikin wani
raba gardama. Duk da haka, jam'iyyar Labour ta rarraba sosai a kan batun rarraba. Wani gyare-gyare ga Dokar Scotland wanda dan majalisar Labour George Cunningham ya gabatar, wanda ba da daɗewa ba ya koma sabuwar jam'iyyar Social Democratic Party (SDP), ya buƙaci kashi 40% na yawan masu jefa ƙuri'a su jefa ƙuri'a a madadin majalisar. Duk da cewa a hukumance suna goyon bayansa, adadi mai yawa na mambobin kungiyar kwadago sun yi adawa da kafa majalisar. Wannan rarrabuwa ya ba da gudummawa ga mafi rinjaye 'Ee' da aka samu, da kuma rashin nasarar isa ga kashi 40% na Cunningham. Shekaru 18 na gwamnatin Conservative, a karkashin Margaret Thatcher sannan kuma John Major, sun ga tsayayya mai karfi ga duk wata shawara don ba da izini ga Scotland, da Wales.