1967 Hamilton by-election

Winnie Ewing took Hamilton for the SNP on November 2, 1967, in a seat where Labour had won more than two-thirds of the vote at every general election since 1945. Her majority was 1,799, and her line to the crowd after the declaration, "Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on," became the night's lasting slogan. Read it alongside Carmarthen: within 16 months, both Welsh and Scottish nationalism had won a seat at Westminster, and Labour's grip on its Celtic heartlands no longer looked permanent.