A general election was held in the United Kingdom on 9 April 1992 and all 72 seats in Scotland were contested.

Two Scottish seats changed parties during the election; Aberdeen South and Kincardine and Deeside.

Kincardine and Deeside had been lost by the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats in the last by-election of the parliament.

Polling throughout the campaign had suggested little movement towards the Conservatives, and instead support for Scottish independence appeared to be rising.

Local polls in individual constituencies had even suggested that the Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Lang would lose his seat of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale to the SNP and that Under-Secretary of State for Scotland Michael Forsyth would lose Stirling to Labour.