An election for 16 Scottish representative peers took place on Monday 23 May 1955 at the Parliament House in Edinburgh.
This was the day before the Church Assembly opened and the day on which the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland took up residence at Holyrood Palace, which was the normal location for the Peers to meet.
The Lord President of the Court of Session and the Faculty of Advocates agreed to the use of Parliament House.
[1] Accordingly, the date, time and place of the meeting was set in a Royal Proclamation of 6 May 1955.
[2] Lord Polwarth produced a proxy on behalf of the Duke of Montrose, and 22 Peers had submitted "Signed Lists" as a form of absent voting.