Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'It is undemocratic and a disgrace if Tony Blair or one of his intermediaries has offered a sitting MP a seat in the Lords in return for vacating their parliamentary seat for a Labour party stooge to be inserted in their place.' Nigel Evans, the Tories' Welsh affairs spokesman, 22 nd March 2001.

Cumbernauld & Kilsyth

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 29,699 (59.71 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Rosemary McKenna	16,144	54.36 %	- 4.33 %
	Scottish National Party	David McGlashan	8,624	29.04 %	+ 1.24 %
	Liberal Democrat	John O'Donnell	1,934	6.51 %	+ 2.79 %
	Conservative	Alison Ross	1,460	4.92 %	- 1.86 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Kenny McEwan	1,287	4.33 %	+ 3.37 %
	Scottish Freedom Referendum Party	Thomas Taylor	250	0.84 %	(+ 0.84 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	7,520	25.32 %	- 5.57 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Rosemary McKenna	21,141	58.69 %	+ 4.68 %
	Scottish National Party	Colin Barrie	10,013	27.80 %	-1.14 %
	Conservative	Ian Sewell	2,441	6.78 %	- 4.49 %
	Liberal Democrat	John Biggam	1,368	3.80 %	-1.96 %
	Pro Life Alliance	Jan Cara	609	1.69 %	(+ 1.69 %)
	Scottish Socialist Alliance	Kenneth McEwan	345	0.96 %	(+ 0.96 %)
	Referendum	Pamela Cook	107	0.30 %	(+ 0.30 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	11,128	30.89 %	+ 5.82 %

9 April 1992 Westminster Election (no boundary change)

Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Norman Hogg	19,855	54.01 %	- 5.97 %
	Scottish National Party	Tom Johnston	10,640	28.94 %	+ 9.36 %
	Conservative	Iain Mitchell	4,143	11.27 %	+ 2.22 %
	Liberal Democrat	Jean Haddow	2,118	5.76 %	- 5.62 %
	Lab win	Lab majority	9,215	25.07 %	- 15.33 %