Scottish Labour Party leadership election, 2015

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21 July 2015 – 15 August 2015

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Candidate	Kezia Dugdale	Ken Macintosh
First preferences	72.1%	27.9%

Leader before election

Iain Gray (acting); previously Jim Murphy

Elected Leader

Kezia Dugdale

Scottish Labour Party deputy leadership election

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21 July 2015 – 15 August 2015


Candidate	Alex Rowley	Gordon Matheson	Richard Baker
First Round	37.4%	32.2%	30.4%
Final Round	55.5%	44.5%	–

Deputy Leader before election

Vacant (previously Kezia Dugdale)

Elected Deputy Leader

Alex Rowley

Iain Gray (acting); previously Jim Murphy

Kezia Dugdale

Vacant (previously Kezia Dugdale)

Alex Rowley

The 2015 Scottish Labour Party leadership election was formally triggered on 16 May 2015 by the resignation of Jim Murphy as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, which took effect on 13 June 2015, following the party's defeat at the 2015 general election. A new leader and deputy leader would be chosen following the resignations of Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale. In the meantime, former Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray took over as acting leader. On 15 August, Dugdale was elected to lead the party, while Alex Rowley was chosen to become her deputy.

Jim Murphy announced his decision to resign on 16 May 2015 after narrowly surviving a vote of no confidence (17-14) at a meeting of the Scottish Labour party's Scottish Executive Committee (SEC) in Glasgow.

Murphy had faced calls to resign from several MSPs, trade unions and former MPs in the wake of his party's near wipeout at the general election. Murphy lost his seat in the 2015 general election as the Scottish National Party won 56 of the 59 Scottish seats, leaving Labour with a single member of parliament in Scotland. His deputy, Kezia Dugdale MSP, would normally become acting leader until a permanent successor is found, but as she resigned the Deputy Leadership in order to run for the Leadership, former Scottish Labour Leader Iain Gray became acting leader.

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