Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'In every working day a Scottish teacher achieves more than a New Labour Minister does in a lifetime.' Alex Salmond at the SNP Conference 1998.

Airdrie & Shotts

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 31,736 (54.39 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Rt Hon Helen Liddell	18,478	58.22 %	- 3.60 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Alison Lindsay	6,138	19.34 %	- 5.06 %
	Liberal Democrat	John Love	2,376	7.49 %	+ 3.32 %
	Conservative	Gordon McIntosh	1,960	6.18 %	- 2.71 %
	Scottish Unionist Party	Mary Dempsey	1,439	4.53 %	(+ 4.53 %)
	Scottish Socialist Party	Kenny McGuigan	1,171	3.69 %	(+ 3.69 %)
	Socialist Labour Party	Chris Herriot	174	0 55 %	(+ 0.55 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	12,340	38.88 %	+ 1.46 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 41,181 (71.40 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Helen Liddell	25,460	61.82 %	- 0.67 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Keith Robertson	10,048	24.40 %	+ 6.29 %
	Conservative	Dr Nicholas Brook	3,660	8.89 %	-5.98 %
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Wolsely	1,719	4.17 %	-0.33 %
	Referendum	Crawford Semple	294	0.71 %	(+0.71 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	15,412	37.42 %	-6.96 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	27,678	62.49%
	Scottish National Party	8,023	18.11%
	Conservative	6,588	14.87%
	Liberal Democrat	1,997	4.50%
Labour win	Lab majority	19,655	44.38%