Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tallafin SNP ya kai kashi 30% a cikin babban zaben Oktoba 1974, tare da zaɓaɓɓun 'yan majalisar SNP 11. A shekarar 1978 gwamnatin kwadago ta zartar da Dokar Scotland wacce ta tsara dokar kafa Majalisar Scottish, idan 'yan Scots sun zabi hakan a zaben raba gardama.
Ka yi haƙuri. 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.