Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Jam'iyyar Scottish National Party ta sami kujerarta ta farko a Westminster a 1945 kuma ta zama jam'iyyar da ta yi fice a cikin shekarun 1970, ta sami 'yan majalisa 11 a 1974. Koyaya, kuri'ar raba gardama game da rarraba mulki a cikin 1979 ba ta yi nasara ba saboda ba ta sami goyon bayan da ake buƙata na kashi 40 cikin ɗari na masu jefa ƙuri'a ba (duk da ƙaramin rinjaye na waɗanda suka jefa ƙuri'a suna goyon bayan shawarar) kuma SNP ta shiga cikin faduwar zaɓe a cikin shekarun 1980. Gabatarwa a cikin 1989 ta gwamnatin Conservative da Thatcher ta jagoranci na Community Charge (wanda aka fi sani da Poll Tax), shekara guda kafin sauran United Kingdom, ya ba da gudummawa ga ci gaban motsi don dawowa kai tsaye ga ikon Scotland kan al'amuran cikin gida. Nasarar zaben New Labour a shekarar 1997 ta jagoranci Firayim Minista biyu tare da alaƙar Scottish: Tony Blair (wanda aka haifa a Scotland) daga 1997 zuwa 2007 da Gordon Brown daga 2007 zuwa 2010, ya buɗe hanya don canjin tsarin mulki. A ranar 11 ga Satumba, 1997, ranar tunawa da shekaru 700 na yakin Stirling Bridge, gwamnatin Labour da Blair ta jagoranta ta sake gudanar da kuri'ar raba gardama kan batun rarraba mulki. Sakamakon da ya dace ya haifar da kafa majalisar Scottish mai zaman kanta a shekarar 1999. An kafa gwamnatin hadin gwiwa, wacce za ta kasance har zuwa 2007, tsakanin Labour da Liberal Democrats, tare da Donald Dewar a matsayin Firayim Minista. Sabuwar Ginin Majalisar Scottish, kusa da Gidan Holyrood a Edinburgh, an buɗe shi a cikin 2004. Kodayake ba a fara kaiwa ga shekarun 1970 ba a zaben Westminster, SNP ta sami nasara sosai a zaben 'yan majalisar Scottish tare da tsarin wakilcin mambobi masu tsaka-tsaki. Ya zama 'yan adawa na hukuma a 1999, gwamnatin' yan tsiraru a 2007 da kuma gwamnatin mafi rinjaye daga 2011. A shekarar 2014,
zaben raba gardama na 'yancin kai ya ga masu jefa kuri'a sun ƙi' yancin kai, suna zaɓar maimakon kasancewa a cikin United Kingdom. A zaben Westminster na 2015, SNP ta lashe kujeru 56 daga cikin kujeru 59 na Scotland, wanda ya sanya su ta uku mafi girma a Westminster.