Candidates and Constituency Assessments


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Hamilton South

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 26,750 (57.32 %)
LogoPartyCandidateVotes%% change
Labour logoLabour Bill Tynan 15,965 59.68 % - 5.92 %
SNP logo Scottish National Party John Wilson 5,190 19.40 % + 1.78 %
Liberal logo Liberal Democrat John Oswald 2,381 8.90 % + 3.78 %
Con logo Conservative Neil Richardson 1,876 7.01 % - 1.63 %
SSP Scottish Socilaist Party Gena Mitchell 1,187 4.44 % - 0.68 %
UK Independence Party Janice Murdoch 151 0.56 % (+ 0.56 %)
Labour hold Labour majority 10,775 40.28 % - 7.70 %

23 rd September 1999 By-election

LogoPartyCandidateVotes%% change
Labour logoLabourBill Tynan7,17236.87 %- 28.73 %
SNP logoScottish National PartyAnnabelle Ewing6,61634.01 %+ 16.39 %
Scottish Socialist PartyShareen Blackall1,8479.49 %(+ 9.49 %)
Con logoConservativeCharles Ferguson1,4067.23 %- 1.41 %

Hamilton Accies Home - Watson AwayStephen Mungall1,0755.53 %(+ 5.53 %)
Liberal logoLiberal DemocratMarilyne MacLaren634*3.26 % - 1.86 %
Pro Life AllianceMonica Burns257*1.32 %- 0.75 %
Socialist LabourTom Dewar238*1.22 % (+ 1.22 %)

Scottish Unionist PartyJames Reid113*0.58 %(+ 0.58 %)
UK Indepenence PartyAlistair McConnachie61*0.31 %(+ 0.31 %)
Natural Law PartyGeorge Stidolph18*0.09 %(+ 0.09 %)

Status QuoDrummond Murray17*0.09 %(+ 0.09 %)
Lab holdLab majority5562.86 %- 45.12 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 33,091 (71.07 %)
LogoPartyCandidateVotes%% change
Labour logoLabour George Robertson 21,709 65.60 % + 8.65 %
SNP logo Scottish National Party Ian Black 5,831 17.62 % - 2.71 %
Con logo Conservative Robert Kilgour 2,858 8.64 % - 7.44 %
Liberal logo Liberal Democrat Richard Pitts 1,693 5.12 % - 1.51 %
Pro Life Colin Gunn 684 2.07 % (+ 2.07 %)
Referendum logo Referendum Stuart Brown 316 0.95 % (+ 0.95 %)
Labour hold Labour majority 15,878 47.98 % + 11.36 %

Notional 1992 result

Labour logo Labour 19,816 56.95%
SNP logo Scottish National Party 7,074 20.33%
Con logo Conservative 5,596 16.08%
Liberal logo Liberal Democrat 2,308 6.63%
Labour win Lab majority 12,742 36.62%



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