Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'Fifteen seconds was all Blair thought necessary to deal with both the Scottish and Welsh constitutions yet his speech lasted for more than an hour. This proves that Blair wants all the real decisions affecting Scotland to be made by him in London, not Scots or even the Scottish Labour Party.' Scottish National Party National Convener, Alex Salmond MP.

East Kilbride

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 41,690 (62.62 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Rt Hon Adam Ingram	22,205	53.26 %	- 3.27 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Archie Buchanan	9,450	22.67 %	+ 1.77 %
	Liberal Democrat	Ewan Hawthorne	4,278	10.26 %	+ 3.03 %
	Conservative	Margaret McCulloch	4,238	10.17 %	- 1.85 %
	Scottish Socialist party	David Stevenson	1,519	3.64 %	(+ 3.64 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	12,755	30.59 %	- 5.04 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 48,796 (74.81 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Adam Ingram	27,584	56.53 %	+ 9.17 %
	Scottish National Party	George Gebbie	10,200	20.90 %	- 2.69 %
	Conservative	Clifford Herbertson	5,863	12.02 %	-6.62 %
	Liberal Democrat	Kate Philbrick	3,527	7.23 %	- 3.16 %
	Pro Life Alliance	John Deigham	1,170	2.40 %	(+ 2.40 %)
	Referendum	Julie Gray	306	0.63 %	(+ 0.63 %)
	Natural Law	Ewan Gilmour	146	0.30 %	(+ 0.30 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	17,384	35.63 %	+11.86 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	23,795	47.36 %
	Scottish National Party	11,855	23.59 %
	Conservative	9,365	18.64 %
	Liberal Democrat	5,221	10.39 %
Labour win	Lab majority	11,940	23.77 %