[1] When combined with results from across the UK, the election resulted in a second (though reduced) landslide victory for the three-party National Government, which was led by Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party after the resignation of Ramsay MacDonald due to ill health earlier in the year.

Due to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 the next general election was not held until 1945.

[c] There was also one university constituency, which elected an additional 3 members using the Single Transferable Vote (STV) method.

This had ultimately served to undermine the organisational growth of the Labour Party in Scotland.

The Combined Scottish Universities elected an additional 3 members to the house using the STV voting method.